A regulated asset doesn't stop being regulated just because it moves onchain.

That sounds obvious, but it's an important point when looking at Dusk.

If a financial asset is going onchain, there still have to be rules around who can access it, what transfers are allowed, what information needs to be available, and how the transaction finally settles.

This is where Dusk's idea of programmable privacy makes sense to me.

The goal isn't to make the whole market invisible. Dusk's approach is built around using privacy where it's needed while keeping transparency available where it's useful. Specific information can also be disclosed to authorized parties when a workflow requires it.

I think that distinction is important.

An investor may not want every detail of their financial activity exposed publicly. But an authorized party may still need evidence for a particular review. Those aren't necessarily contradictory requirements.

Then there is settlement.

Dusk describes deterministic settlement as a core part of its infrastructure for regulated markets. The idea is to give financial workflows predictable finality rather than treating settlement as something separate from the rest of the process.

So the four things I'm taking from Dusk are pretty straightforward:

Privacy where needed.
Transparency where useful.
Selective disclosure when authorized review requires it.
Deterministic settlement for the final transaction.

For regulated finance, that combination is more interesting to me than simply calling Dusk a privacy blockchain.

What matters most for regulated assets moving onchain?

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