Every action you take on the chain is clearly visible. DeFi transactions, digital asset exchanges, even social interactions—all become public data. What if you could execute complex smart contract logic while maintaining your privacy? Dusk Network is doing just that—a revolution in "programmable privacy" that is gradually unfolding within the ecosystem.

Many people confuse Dusk with traditional privacy coins, but this is a misconception. The role of $DUSK is entirely different. It is not an upgraded version of an anonymous currency but rather the fuel and governance tool that powers a privacy computing network. Where is its value? It depends on how many business logics involving confidentiality run on its virtual machine (Rusk VM). To put it another way—it's like upgrading from simply building a "more secure safe" (privacy coin approach) to constructing a "business skyscraper equipped with top-tier security" (privacy computing layer). The scale and imagination are completely different.

The real advantage lies in ecosystem applications. On conventional public chains, some scenarios simply can't run or offer poor user experience. Dusk fills this gap.

Looking at institutional DeFi—on-chain trading strategies of hedge funds, OTC trades between large institutions—no one wants to expose their holdings and operational intentions on Ethereum for the whole network to see. Dusk provides this layer of confidentiality. Moving into gaming and digital assets, truly "blind box" mechanisms and private transactions between players are doomed to be pseudo-necessities in transparent environments. With privacy protection, these applications can truly take off. This is the moat of the Dusk ecosystem—precisely meeting the application needs that transparent public chains exclude.