Recently, there has been a noticeable change in the circle. The once-popular meme coins and small-cap tokens are losing their heat, replaced by an increasingly frequent term — institutional funds.

This is not hype. Once traditional financial institutions really start entering the market on a large scale, they will bring more than just short-term trading. These major players managing hundreds of billions or even trillions of assets are looking for: the safest, most compliant, and most secure options. Assets that make them feel at ease.

So the question is: who will institutions choose?

Today, I want to discuss a project — Dusk. It may not be the most well-known, but it is very likely to be exactly the ideal target for institutions.

**Balancing Compliance and Privacy**

Think from a different perspective: if you are a decision-maker at a Wall Street investment bank, managing huge funds. Now someone asks you to publish all transaction records, client information, and asset flows on the chain, so everyone can check at any time — would you agree?

Obviously not. This is the biggest concern for traditional institutions entering blockchain — they need the efficiency and transparency of blockchain, but cannot accept all data being exposed.

Dusk’s innovation lies here. It uses zero-knowledge proof technology to build a clever system: the chain is public, but transaction details and position data can be selectively hidden. Only authorized regulatory agencies and compliance institutions can view them. For institutions, this is essentially a tailored security solution.

**Why not other public chains?**

Solana is fast, Ethereum has a large ecosystem, BNB has many users. Each of these public chains has its advantages. But none of them have solved the same problem: providing privacy protection for institutional-grade users while maintaining openness. This is Dusk’s unique value. As institutional funds flow in, this demand will only grow stronger.