Traditional financial compliance audits are like an endless unboxing process. Every cross-border transaction, every asset listing requires financial institutions to lay everything out for regulators to check one by one. This process is not only inefficient but also consumes a significant portion of the institution's profits annually, especially in anti-money laundering (AML) and customer due diligence (KYC).

By the second half of 2025, the large-scale on-chain registration of real-world assets (RWA) is a certainty, and this outdated compliance model can no longer keep up with the pace. Dusk Foundation is building a different path—using Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) technology to transform "expensive manual audits" into "cost-effective algorithmic verification."

Compliance is essentially about building trust. Under traditional methods, this trust requires stacking大量 documents and human audit costs. Dusk's innovation lies in redefining this process. Its Piecrust virtual machine creates an execution environment for financial institutions that both protects privacy and meets compliance requirements.

Although public blockchains like Ethereum are transparent, for banks holding sensitive positions, this transparency itself is a risk. Dusk achieves the so-called "blind compliance" mechanism through the Citadel protocol—allowing financial institutions to prove to regulators that their asset allocations comply with regulations such as the EU's MiCA without exposing transaction details.

In other words, institutions no longer need to send all data for manual review; instead, they can use cryptographic proofs to verify compliance. This significantly reduces back-end operational costs and compresses the compliance process from weekly to minutes. For investment banks and asset management firms handling cross-border asset transfers, this means real cost optimization and accelerated business operations.