I spent some time going through Section 6 of @Dusk ’s technical docs and I walked away with more questions than answers.

Oddly, I think that’s a good sign.

What caught my attention wasn’t just PVM or the WASM-based execution model. It was how much of Dusk’s core network behavior appears to be pushed into contracts.

Transfer handles $DUSK transfers, validation and execution fees. Stake manages locked DUSK, staking state and withdrawals. Future pieces like Zedger and Clock push even more logic into contracts.

That made me rethink one assumption.

I initially looked at PVM mainly as a lightweight, modular way to run smart contracts. But the deeper question may not be how cleanly the VM executes them.

It’s who controls the contracts that the network increasingly depends on.

If an important contract becomes a security bottleneck, how is it upgraded or replaced?

Who actually has the authority to change it?

And how decentralized is that control in practice?

Those questions matter more to me now than simply knowing that #Dusk has a WASM-based VM.

The interesting part of the architecture may be less about what the contracts can do and more about what happens when the network starts depending on them for critical behavior.

My next step is digging deeper into how these genesis and future system contracts are governed, upgraded and secured.

I have a feeling that’s where my current understanding of Dusk will either hold up - or change quite a bit.
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