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🔐 Hedger: why does EVM need privacy?
Publicity is one of blockchain’s defining features, but for financial markets it can also become a limitation.
Imagine an institutional investor executing a transaction with a tokenized asset. The mere existence of the transaction may be public, but disclosing to all market participants every detail of the position, volumes, or deal terms is not always desirable.
That’s where Hedger comes into play in Dusk’s architecture — a privacy module for EVM.
Hedger is designed to create confidential EVM workflows: it uses homomorphic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs so that data can remain confidential while still allowing it to be verified.
And this is an important difference from the “just hide the data” approach. For regulated financial markets, what’s needed is not absolute opacity, but controlled privacy: information is protected from general access, yet when necessary it can be checked by authorized participants.
So you get an interesting combination: the familiar EVM environment for developers + privacy tailored for more complex financial scenarios.
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