#dusk $DUSK @Dusk I remember my little brother Waqas asking me something that made me rethink Dusk’s privacy design. If users can choose how much information to reveal, doesn’t that make development harder?
Honestly, I was surprised by what that question exposed. The bigger issue is not hidden transactions themselves. It is that developers cannot treat the public ledger as a complete source of application state.
That assumption matters immediately at the infrastructure level. Wallets, indexers and financial systems have to account for cases where the information they normally use for discovery, recovery or accounting is not publicly available.
What caught my attention is what happens one layer higher. Developers have to distinguish between functions that genuinely require transaction-level details and those that can operate without them.
Instead of building around maximum data visibility and adding privacy later, applications have to define their data dependencies with privacy already in mind. That is the architectural Trade-off I find most interesting in Dusk. Privacy changes what financial software can know by default, and therefore how that software has to be designed.
Would you trade some development simplicity for an application model where privacy is built into the underlying assumptions from day one? 🤔
Honestly, I was surprised by what that question exposed. The bigger issue is not hidden transactions themselves. It is that developers cannot treat the public ledger as a complete source of application state.
That assumption matters immediately at the infrastructure level. Wallets, indexers and financial systems have to account for cases where the information they normally use for discovery, recovery or accounting is not publicly available.
What caught my attention is what happens one layer higher. Developers have to distinguish between functions that genuinely require transaction-level details and those that can operate without them.
Instead of building around maximum data visibility and adding privacy later, applications have to define their data dependencies with privacy already in mind. That is the architectural Trade-off I find most interesting in Dusk. Privacy changes what financial software can know by default, and therefore how that software has to be designed.
Would you trade some development simplicity for an application model where privacy is built into the underlying assumptions from day one? 🤔