Many people first learn about Dusk Foundation and often immediately label it as a "privacy chain" or "compliance chain." But if you look closely at its design logic, you'll find that things are not that simple — it’s not about putting a privacy protection layer on the blockchain, but about fundamentally redefining "what on-chain financial systems should look like."

Think about what traditional finance looks like. Stock trading, bond issuance, fund settlements — these have never been "completely transparent and viewable by everyone." Privacy is not an afterthought or decoration; it is an essential part of the financial system itself. However, most public chains go in the opposite direction — they are fully transparent from the start, and privacy becomes a patch. This creates an awkward situation: in a financial context, these chains always seem somewhat out of place.

Dusk’s approach is the opposite. It directly incorporates privacy, compliance, and verifiable but non-intrusive features into the underlying system. This is not about selecting features; it’s a philosophical choice. Its goal is not to serve retail users but to enable genuine institutional-grade financial operations to occur on-chain.

So you’ll find that many of Dusk’s designs may not seem "sexy," but they are very solid. It’s not chasing trends but building a long-term, sustainable financial infrastructure brick by brick. Such projects often go unnoticed in a bull market, but when large-scale finance migrates onto the chain, their value becomes evident.

If blockchain is seen as the "next-generation financial operating system," then what Dusk is doing is more like writing the core kernel of this system rather than just the application layer.