I went down a bit of a rabbit hole looking at Dusk’s PLONK code today, and it made me think about how we usually judge privacy projects. Seeing “zero-knowledge proofs” in a technical description is one thing. Being able to actually look at the implementation behind it is another.
Dusk’s PLONK implementation is publicly available on GitHub, so developers and researchers have something concrete to examine rather than only relying on a description in a whitepaper. That doesn’t automatically mean every part of the system is perfect, but I like that the cryptography isn’t being treated as a black box. 🤯
And this matters more when the goal is regulated finance. Dusk isn’t trying to make everything invisible. The bigger idea is privacy where sensitive information needs protection, while still leaving room for transparency and selective disclosure when an authorized party needs to verify something. That’s a much more practical model for financial markets than simply hiding everything.
I’m definitely not qualified to audit PLONK myself 😂, but I do like the principle here. If confidential financial activity is going onchain, I’d rather have the underlying privacy technology available for people to question and inspect than simply take a project’s word for it. That combination of privacy, verification and authorized disclosure is what makes Dusk interesting to me.
@Dusk_Foundation #dusk $DUSK
Dusk’s PLONK implementation is publicly available on GitHub, so developers and researchers have something concrete to examine rather than only relying on a description in a whitepaper. That doesn’t automatically mean every part of the system is perfect, but I like that the cryptography isn’t being treated as a black box. 🤯
And this matters more when the goal is regulated finance. Dusk isn’t trying to make everything invisible. The bigger idea is privacy where sensitive information needs protection, while still leaving room for transparency and selective disclosure when an authorized party needs to verify something. That’s a much more practical model for financial markets than simply hiding everything.
I’m definitely not qualified to audit PLONK myself 😂, but I do like the principle here. If confidential financial activity is going onchain, I’d rather have the underlying privacy technology available for people to question and inspect than simply take a project’s word for it. That combination of privacy, verification and authorized disclosure is what makes Dusk interesting to me.
@Dusk_Foundation #dusk $DUSK