Most RWA chains talk about compliance. Very few talk about decentralization honestly.
Polymesh enforces rules by controlling who can enter the network. Validators are known entities. Users are verified before they can participate. Access is restricted first, and trading happens only inside that gated environment. It offers predictability, but at the cost of openness and reach.
Dusk Network takes a different path.
The network itself stays permissionless. Anyone can participate at the base layer. Instead of enforcing compliance at the entrance, Dusk embeds the rules directly into the asset. Privacy is used to protect the protocol, not to justify a whitelist. Transfer conditions, investor requirements, and jurisdictional limits live in code, not in network access controls.
The result is a system that keeps decentralization intact while still respecting regulation. Assets can be compliant without the blockchain becoming private. Participation stays broad, liquidity can form naturally, and compliance scales without locking the market behind identity gates.
Same market. Same goal. Very different philosophy.
And in the long run, philosophy is what decides which systems grow into real financial infrastructure and which remain closed experiments.
