Traditional financial institutions often face a dilemma when embracing blockchain: public chains are incredibly transparent but prone to leaking business secrets, while private chains are secure but difficult to interconnect. Now, a project is breaking this deadlock.

Dusk Network takes a different approach—it doesn't pursue complete anonymity but instead tailors solutions for regulated financial scenarios. Its core Hedger protocol cleverly combines cutting-edge cryptographic technologies like zero-knowledge proofs and fully homomorphic encryption to achieve "selective disclosure." Simply put: transaction details are kept confidential externally, but audit data required by regulators is visible to relevant parties. This way, a company's business secrets and compliance requirements can finally be unified on-chain.

Dusk's architecture is even more ambitious. As a Layer-1 blockchain, it has built-in XSC (Confidential Security Contract) standards and the Rusk Virtual Machine— the world's first ZK-VM fully based on zero-knowledge cryptography. What does this mean? Developers can run complex institutional-grade financial logic directly on the chain without worrying about data exposure. Its modular design also allows various financial applications (from asset management to derivatives trading) to find suitable placements.

From another perspective, this is not just a technical stack but a truly feasible on-chain pathway for the entire traditional finance sector. Privacy and compliance are no longer at odds here.