#dusk $DUSK A message from Wei, a DeFi developer, came in the middle of the night: "Have you seen Dusk's Hedger? Using homomorphic encryption to keep a liquidity pool's balances confidential, and still allow authorized regulatory audits—it's quite a bold idea."
I pulled up the technical documentation for @Dusk and stared at Hedger's architecture for a long time. Its approach is different from most solutions on the market: it's not just adding a layer of anonymity to transactions. Instead, it lets core DeFi primitives—such as an AMM liquidity pool—operate normally while balances remain encrypted end to end, and at the same time preserves an audit channel for regulators. With DuskEVM, Solidity developers can theoretically migrate and use it directly.
But when I dug deeper into homomorphic encryption's performance and key management, my brows furrowed.
The biggest cost of homomorphic encryption is computation. For every addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division on confidential balances, operations must be performed directly on ciphertext, causing gas usage and latency to multiply. DuskEVM's mainnet has already gone live, but Hedger is still stuck in the Alpha stage—meaning developers trying to run privacy-focused DeFi on DuskEVM can't get usable components in the short term. So the so-called "privacy" can only be assembled with an extra layer from the outside.
Another unavoidable hurdle is key management. The audit channel depends on the regulator holding the corresponding key. But if a key is leaked or abused, the protection for the entire set of confidential balances becomes essentially meaningless. Who keeps the keys, how they are held, and what to do to contain damage after a leak—none of those are clearly answered in the documentation.
Confidential DeFi sounds very sexy, but between Alpha and production, the gap may be more than just a few lines of code. What do you think about Hedger?
This only represents my personal research views and does not constitute investment advice. See you in the comments.@Dusk $BTC
I pulled up the technical documentation for @Dusk and stared at Hedger's architecture for a long time. Its approach is different from most solutions on the market: it's not just adding a layer of anonymity to transactions. Instead, it lets core DeFi primitives—such as an AMM liquidity pool—operate normally while balances remain encrypted end to end, and at the same time preserves an audit channel for regulators. With DuskEVM, Solidity developers can theoretically migrate and use it directly.
But when I dug deeper into homomorphic encryption's performance and key management, my brows furrowed.
The biggest cost of homomorphic encryption is computation. For every addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division on confidential balances, operations must be performed directly on ciphertext, causing gas usage and latency to multiply. DuskEVM's mainnet has already gone live, but Hedger is still stuck in the Alpha stage—meaning developers trying to run privacy-focused DeFi on DuskEVM can't get usable components in the short term. So the so-called "privacy" can only be assembled with an extra layer from the outside.
Another unavoidable hurdle is key management. The audit channel depends on the regulator holding the corresponding key. But if a key is leaked or abused, the protection for the entire set of confidential balances becomes essentially meaningless. Who keeps the keys, how they are held, and what to do to contain damage after a leak—none of those are clearly answered in the documentation.
Confidential DeFi sounds very sexy, but between Alpha and production, the gap may be more than just a few lines of code. What do you think about Hedger?
This only represents my personal research views and does not constitute investment advice. See you in the comments.@Dusk $BTC
机密DeFi能落地吗？
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同态加密性能扛得住？
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等它脱离Alpha再说
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这个方向我看好
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