#dusk $DUSK spent the task poking around the chain instead of reading about it.
First thing that threw me, the explorer people are actually linking isn't even the official one.
@Dusk_Foundation just shared DuskScan, an independent explorer built by pieswapdusk, live for maybe a week now. Not the foundation shipping the tooling a community dev filling a gap nobody else got to yet.
So I pulled up a handful of recent blocks through it. Here's the thing that stuck click into a Phoenix transaction and you get a commitment and a nullifier, nothing else. No sender, no amount, nothing.
Click a Moonlight tx and it's all there, plain as any public chain. Same explorer, same network, wildly different amount of "auditability" depending on which mode the sender picked.
Kind of undercuts the pitch a little. The marketing leans hard on compliant, auditable privacy for regulated finance but on chain, auditability isn't a network property, it's a choice each user makes at send time.
Nobody's forced into visibility. Which… is maybe fine, probably even the point. But it's a different thing than what "auditable" sounds like when you first read the deck.
Makes me wonder how many institutional users end up defaulting to Moonlight just because it's simpler to integrate, and whether the private mode ends up mostly retail.
First thing that threw me, the explorer people are actually linking isn't even the official one.
@Dusk_Foundation just shared DuskScan, an independent explorer built by pieswapdusk, live for maybe a week now. Not the foundation shipping the tooling a community dev filling a gap nobody else got to yet.
So I pulled up a handful of recent blocks through it. Here's the thing that stuck click into a Phoenix transaction and you get a commitment and a nullifier, nothing else. No sender, no amount, nothing.
Click a Moonlight tx and it's all there, plain as any public chain. Same explorer, same network, wildly different amount of "auditability" depending on which mode the sender picked.
Kind of undercuts the pitch a little. The marketing leans hard on compliant, auditable privacy for regulated finance but on chain, auditability isn't a network property, it's a choice each user makes at send time.
Nobody's forced into visibility. Which… is maybe fine, probably even the point. But it's a different thing than what "auditable" sounds like when you first read the deck.
Makes me wonder how many institutional users end up defaulting to Moonlight just because it's simpler to integrate, and whether the private mode ends up mostly retail.