In an era where public chain competition is becoming increasingly fierce, DUSK's strategic approach is unique — it chooses not to engage in a full-scale attack but to focus on the specialized field of privacy protection and compliant governance within multi-chain ecosystems.

The logic behind this positioning is quite clear: through cross-chain interoperability, it provides tailored financial privacy solutions for other blockchains and their assets. It may sound a bit abstract, but the use cases are actually very concrete.

Imagine this process: users hold mainstream assets like ETH or BNB, which can be transferred into the DUSK network via cross-chain bridges. Once inside, with the help of its confidential smart contracts or Hedger protocol, users can perform complex financial operations in a privacy-protected environment — high-value OTC trades, off-chain settlements, and other business activities requiring high confidentiality. After processing, assets are moved back to the original chain. Throughout this process, DUSK acts like a verifiable "black box," ensuring compliance while tightly safeguarding sensitive business information.

The most clever aspect of this approach is its modular architecture. Other public chains don't need to modify themselves to add privacy features; instead, they outsource this requirement to DUSK, an expert system. To some extent, DUSK becomes the receiver of privacy demands across the entire crypto ecosystem. If this model proves successful, DUSK's value capture will far exceed the single-chain scope, transforming into a critical infrastructure-level service. Of course, the prerequisite is that cross-chain communication protocols are sufficiently secure, efficient, and truly trustless.