@dusk_foundation presents a scientific roadmap for privacy-preserving blockchains: leveraging zero-knowledge proofs and confidential smart contracts to enable provable confidentiality, deterministic consensus, and auditability without exposing payloads. We quantify latency vs. throughput trade-offs, model attacker surfaces, and propose composable primitives for regulatory compliance. $DUSK #dusk 🧪🔒📈🌐 Preliminary results show sub-second finality at 1k TPS with proof aggregation; ongoing work addresses quantum-safe signatures and a gas-efficient zkVM.@Dusk

