In terms of the balance between consensus and performance, Dusk clearly prioritizes appropriately. It employs a design similar to Sharded Byzantine Fault Tolerance (SBA): first quickly reaching consensus on transaction facts, then verifying ZK proofs in parallel or subsequently. This arrangement ensures block production speed and throughput without sacrificing the security of privacy verification. The mainnet has been live for a long time and has consistently performed stably, with rare occurrences of chain reorganizations or long delays. For institutional applications, reliability and stability are far more important than blindly pursuing high TPS, and Dusk has clearly set the right order.

The implementation is not just talk; collaborations with Chainlink and the Dutch NPEX exchange have concretely integrated technology and market applications. Through Chainlink’s CCIP cross-chain protocol, DataLink data integrity guarantees, and Data Streams low-latency price feeds, Dusk packages data from regulated exchanges, reliable asset pricing, and cross-chain capabilities into an auditable, complete chain. Simply put, regulated assets like stocks and bonds can be legally transformed into on-chain tokens, with the entire process—from issuance, cross-chain transfer, to settlement—completed on-chain. Coupled with Citadel’s zero-knowledge KYC system, users can control the disclosure level of their identity information—meeting AML/KYC requirements without exposing all privacy. This combination is highly persuasive for institutions; they see not an empty concept but a compliant pathway that can be implemented step by step.
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