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A SINGLE NUMBER BEING EVIDENCE (PROOF GENERATION TIME) IS NOT YET REFLECTING REAL TRANSACTION SPEED.
Many people are excited when they see cryptographic metrics on the client side: Hedger on DuskEVM can generate a ZK proof in under 2 seconds. This is undoubtedly an impressive step forward in algorithmic optimization, suggesting users won’t have to wait an entire minute on their device just to generate a security proof.
But a single figure in the first step has never fully captured the experience of the entire process.
Generating a local ZK proof in under 2 seconds only addresses the bottleneck on the client side. It does not tell us how long it will take for a secure transaction to complete (End-to-End Settlement) when it goes through all the links in the chain:
Proof Verification: How long do the nodes on the network take to verify the validity of the proof?
Sequencing & Inclusion Latency: How long does the secret transaction wait in the queue before being included in a block?
Execution & Finality: In total, how many seconds does it take for the entire private state to be updated and finalized (settled) on-chain?
Mainstream users and financial institutions do not experience a system by the speed of the proof creator (prover) alone. They experience the overall latency from the moment they click "Send" until the transaction is done—irreversibly.
Therefore, Dusk’s technical progress evaluation standard is not just about the "under 2 seconds" number in the lab. The real signals that determine operational capability
A SINGLE NUMBER BEING EVIDENCE (PROOF GENERATION TIME) IS NOT YET REFLECTING REAL TRANSACTION SPEED.
Many people are excited when they see cryptographic metrics on the client side: Hedger on DuskEVM can generate a ZK proof in under 2 seconds. This is undoubtedly an impressive step forward in algorithmic optimization, suggesting users won’t have to wait an entire minute on their device just to generate a security proof.
But a single figure in the first step has never fully captured the experience of the entire process.
Generating a local ZK proof in under 2 seconds only addresses the bottleneck on the client side. It does not tell us how long it will take for a secure transaction to complete (End-to-End Settlement) when it goes through all the links in the chain:
Proof Verification: How long do the nodes on the network take to verify the validity of the proof?
Sequencing & Inclusion Latency: How long does the secret transaction wait in the queue before being included in a block?
Execution & Finality: In total, how many seconds does it take for the entire private state to be updated and finalized (settled) on-chain?
Mainstream users and financial institutions do not experience a system by the speed of the proof creator (prover) alone. They experience the overall latency from the moment they click "Send" until the transaction is done—irreversibly.
Therefore, Dusk’s technical progress evaluation standard is not just about the "under 2 seconds" number in the lab. The real signals that determine operational capability