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I used to think privacy on a blockchain meant hiding from accountability. Dusk made me reconsider that.

Institutions don't avoid public ledgers because they dislike oversight. They avoid them because broadcasting trade size, timing, and counterparties to the whole market is a competitive liability, not a compliance one. That's a different problem than most privacy coins are solving.

Dusk runs two transaction models instead of picking a side. Moonlight is public and account based, useful when transparency itself is the requirement. Phoenix is shielded, built for cases where balances need to stay confidential while still being provable to whoever is authorized to check them.

What surprised me is that hiding data isn't the hard part. Any database can do that. The hard part is proving a hidden transaction still satisfies a rule, like eligibility or reporting, without exposing the data itself. That's what the zero-knowledge layer is actually doing here, not decorating a privacy narrative.

The NPEX integration is the only real evidence I found that this works outside a whitepaper, with a regulated platform settling tokenized securities on Dusk. One data point, not a trend.

The open risk is whether institutions actually settle on shared infrastructure they don't control, or eventually build proprietary versions of the same idea once it's proven viable.

Would regulated finance prefer rails it can't fully see, if it means compliance without full exposure, or does institutional trust require owning the infrastructure outright?
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