Zero-knowledge proofs on public blockchains often face a trade-off: privacy or speed? Dusk Network provides a different answer with the Daylight protocol — this solution achieves full-chain native privacy protection on PoS public chains while maintaining sub-second confirmation times and impressive throughput.

On the technical level, it employs an efficient variant of Bulletproofs combined with BLS aggregate signatures, Segregated Domains, and Piecrust VM. Developers write privacy smart contracts in Rust, which automatically generate zk-SNARKs proofs during compilation, resulting in gas costs far lower than existing zk-rollups.

On the ecosystem level, $DUSK token holders directly participate in protocol evolution decisions — from circuit optimization and privacy primitive extensions to the introduction of cross-chain privacy bridges, all driven by community governance. This design makes privacy no longer an add-on feature but a core infrastructure built into the genesis code.

The application potential is vast: default encrypted financial transactions, automated generation of compliance proof reports for enterprises, anonymous yet verifiable DAO voting, medical data shared on-chain without ever leaking. While mainstream public chains are still compromising on privacy, this project chooses to completely rewrite the game rules.