Public chain development has historically relied on transparency as its core competitive advantage. But this also brings new issues—every transaction and contract interaction is exposed to the entire network, like a live broadcast. Is this progress or a trap?

Dusk Network has chosen a completely different path. It does not adopt the approach of patching after initial deployment (such as adding mixers or layering zero-knowledge protocols later), but instead rewrites from the ground up: consensus mechanisms, virtual machines, contract models—all designed around native privacy.

Take its Segregated Byzantine Agreement consensus as an example. It sounds very academic, but its effectiveness is quite hardcore: the network reaches consensus without everyone needing to see all data. Leader rotation is isolated, transaction data is encrypted and encapsulated before being packaged into blocks, and only the actual participants and necessary validators can interpret it. This way, you don’t have to worry about full nodes seeing your wallet balance.

Even more interesting is its Confidential Security Contracts scheme. Imagine real-world scenarios: structured product trading, private equity transfers, large receivables settlements between enterprises—these are highly confidential pieces of information, which are almost impossible to hide on traditional public chains. Dusk uses zero-knowledge range proofs combined with homomorphic encryption to achieve a delicate balance: contract logic is fully transparent and verifiable, but specific values, counterparty details, and amounts are kept hidden. This is the true fusion of privacy and verifiability.