Last night I left the local node running, finishing off a bag of crackers that had already gone soft... and just kept watching each slot drift by while thinking about Dusk from a slightly different angle.
honestly, the thing that catches my attention most is no longer the Privacy Layer.
it is what someone else can know... before the Block Generator appears.
I built a very simple toy scenario for myself: 120 slots, suppose an attacker can correctly predict the leader in 10% of those slots, that already creates 120 × 10% = 12 windows to prepare a Targeted-Attack.
12 times sounds small?
with Consensus, one hit at exactly the right moment can sometimes be more frightening than a hundred blind swings!
that is when Blind Bid, Confidential Bid, Non-interactive Sortition and Private Leader Election started making sense to me.
No Signaling is not sexy.
No Targeting is not exactly something easy to brag about either.
but the strongest part of MEV Resistance, to me, is not about hiding things beautifully... it is about cutting down the preparation time of whoever wants to play ahead of the rules.
Prover creates Zero-Knowledge Proof, Verifier checks Circuit Constraints, Polynomial Evaluation runs under dusk-plonk, BlindBidProof proves Sortition Correctness...
sounds complicated, sure.
but I actually like this very human logic: if you do not know exactly who to target, when, or where... the attacker has to pay for that uncertainty.
to me, that is the most valuable part of SBA Consensus.
not Privacy for turning everything into a secret.
but Privacy making the advantage of preparation more expensive.
so if you had to choose, would you prefer a public Consensus that is easier to observe... or a Consensus that forces an attacker to enter the fight without even knowing who they should punch?
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk
honestly, the thing that catches my attention most is no longer the Privacy Layer.
it is what someone else can know... before the Block Generator appears.
I built a very simple toy scenario for myself: 120 slots, suppose an attacker can correctly predict the leader in 10% of those slots, that already creates 120 × 10% = 12 windows to prepare a Targeted-Attack.
12 times sounds small?
with Consensus, one hit at exactly the right moment can sometimes be more frightening than a hundred blind swings!
that is when Blind Bid, Confidential Bid, Non-interactive Sortition and Private Leader Election started making sense to me.
No Signaling is not sexy.
No Targeting is not exactly something easy to brag about either.
but the strongest part of MEV Resistance, to me, is not about hiding things beautifully... it is about cutting down the preparation time of whoever wants to play ahead of the rules.
Prover creates Zero-Knowledge Proof, Verifier checks Circuit Constraints, Polynomial Evaluation runs under dusk-plonk, BlindBidProof proves Sortition Correctness...
sounds complicated, sure.
but I actually like this very human logic: if you do not know exactly who to target, when, or where... the attacker has to pay for that uncertainty.
to me, that is the most valuable part of SBA Consensus.
not Privacy for turning everything into a secret.
but Privacy making the advantage of preparation more expensive.
so if you had to choose, would you prefer a public Consensus that is easier to observe... or a Consensus that forces an attacker to enter the fight without even knowing who they should punch?
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk