I don’t think the real question about blockchain privacy is simply “Should everything be hidden?”
A better question might be: Who actually needs to see what?
Take a normal financial transaction. The person sending the money may know the details. The bank may need certain information to process it. A regulator might only need proof that the transaction followed the rules.
But on many public blockchains, there isn’t much separation between those different levels of access.
That’s one reason Dusk caught my attention.
Instead of forcing every transaction into one approach, its architecture explores different models for different needs. Moonlight follows an account-based model, while Phoenix uses a UTXO model designed around private transactions and zero-knowledge proofs.
To me, that reflects something important about real-world finance: not every transaction should have the same visibility.
Some things need to be public.
Some things only need to be verifiable.
And some things should remain private unless there is a legitimate reason to disclose them.
That’s also why selective disclosure feels more important to me than privacy alone.
The interesting challenge for Dusk is whether this flexibility can become something financial institutions can actually build on—not just a technical feature, but infrastructure that lets information be revealed to the right party, at the right time, for the right reason.
If that works, then $DUSK could be about much more than hiding transactions.
It could be about giving finance better control over what gets revealed, who sees it, and why.
@Dusk_Foundation #dusk $DUSK
A better question might be: Who actually needs to see what?
Take a normal financial transaction. The person sending the money may know the details. The bank may need certain information to process it. A regulator might only need proof that the transaction followed the rules.
But on many public blockchains, there isn’t much separation between those different levels of access.
That’s one reason Dusk caught my attention.
Instead of forcing every transaction into one approach, its architecture explores different models for different needs. Moonlight follows an account-based model, while Phoenix uses a UTXO model designed around private transactions and zero-knowledge proofs.
To me, that reflects something important about real-world finance: not every transaction should have the same visibility.
Some things need to be public.
Some things only need to be verifiable.
And some things should remain private unless there is a legitimate reason to disclose them.
That’s also why selective disclosure feels more important to me than privacy alone.
The interesting challenge for Dusk is whether this flexibility can become something financial institutions can actually build on—not just a technical feature, but infrastructure that lets information be revealed to the right party, at the right time, for the right reason.
If that works, then $DUSK could be about much more than hiding transactions.
It could be about giving finance better control over what gets revealed, who sees it, and why.
@Dusk_Foundation #dusk $DUSK