I used to think transaction privacy was mainly about choosing between “public” and “private.” After reading Dusk’s documentation, I see Phoenix and Moonlight differently: they are two transaction models built for different information requirements, but they share the same settlement layer.
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Moonlight uses public, account-based transfers where balances, sender, recipient and amount are visible. Phoenix takes the opposite approach with shielded, note-based transfers and zero-knowledge proofs, hiding transaction details while still proving correctness.

What I find most interesting is that Dusk does not force one model onto every use case. The Transfer Contract can accept both transaction types and route them through the appropriate verification logic, while both ultimately settle on DuskDS.

To me, the overlooked insight is architectural flexibility: transparency and confidentiality can coexist at the transaction-model level without requiring separate settlement systems.

That makes @Dusk_Foundation ’s design more nuanced than simply calling it a “privacy blockchain.”
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