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I used to see KYC as a trade off: Either you keep the process centralized and accept that sensitive documents sit somewhere, or you move it Onchain and make identity information even harder to keep private.
Looking deeper into Dusk changed that view for me.
The interesting part of Citadel is the separation between proving who you are and repeatedly exposing everything that proves it.
A credential can be issued by an authorized party, while a user can later prove that the required credential or condition is valid without handing a financial application their raw personal documents every time.
That distinction becomes much more important when real assets enter the picture. A regulated platform may need to know that an investor is eligible, But it does not necessarily need their entire identity file. With zero-knowledge proofs and selective disclosure, the verification itself can become the useful piece of information, while unnecessary personal data stays out of the transaction flow.
That also changes how I think about compliance Onchain. The goal is not to make finance completely anonymous or completely transparent. It is to make disclosure conditional, verifiable and useful to the party that actually needs it.
The concept makes sense on paper. The harder test is whether Dusk can make this experience simple enough that institutions choose privacy preserving verification instead of falling back to the old data heavy model.
I used to see KYC as a trade off: Either you keep the process centralized and accept that sensitive documents sit somewhere, or you move it Onchain and make identity information even harder to keep private.
Looking deeper into Dusk changed that view for me.
The interesting part of Citadel is the separation between proving who you are and repeatedly exposing everything that proves it.
A credential can be issued by an authorized party, while a user can later prove that the required credential or condition is valid without handing a financial application their raw personal documents every time.
That distinction becomes much more important when real assets enter the picture. A regulated platform may need to know that an investor is eligible, But it does not necessarily need their entire identity file. With zero-knowledge proofs and selective disclosure, the verification itself can become the useful piece of information, while unnecessary personal data stays out of the transaction flow.
That also changes how I think about compliance Onchain. The goal is not to make finance completely anonymous or completely transparent. It is to make disclosure conditional, verifiable and useful to the party that actually needs it.
The concept makes sense on paper. The harder test is whether Dusk can make this experience simple enough that institutions choose privacy preserving verification instead of falling back to the old data heavy model.