When it comes to Dusk, what attracts me the most is not just its technological innovation, but the complete ecosystem story it has built in the privacy finance field.

This logic is not something that just occurred recently. It has been laid out since 2018, and that kind of patience is quite rare.

The core support of the ecosystem is the Dusk Foundation—a non-profit organization based in the Netherlands. Its role is quite special; it is not a short-term promoter but a long-term guardian. It oversees protocol development, ecosystem funding, governance guidance, and dialogue with regulatory systems. These responsibilities are all managed by it. This kind of structure is especially important for financial-grade infrastructure, as it sets the tone for the network’s robustness, credibility, and consistency.

In terms of technical choices, they are very restrained. Dusk adopts a modular Layer-1 approach, aiming to provide settlement and privacy infrastructure for institutional applications, without overstepping its scope. The consensus mechanism used is the Isolated Byzantine Agreement(SBA), which seeks to find the true balance needed by financial markets between security, finality, and performance.

However, having just the framework is not enough. What truly injects expansion power into the ecosystem is DuskEVM. This is very clever—allowing Ethereum’s large developer community to switch to the Dusk ecosystem with almost zero barriers. Using familiar tools, developers can directly create native financial applications with built-in privacy and compliance capabilities. This is equivalent to leveraging developers’ existing skill sets, significantly lowering the entry barrier for the entire ecosystem.