#dusk $DUSK @Dusk Beyond Privacy: How Programmable Confidentiality Could Change Onchain Finance
What if an EVM could run smart contracts without putting sensitive numbers out in the open?
That’s the part of @Dusk that caught my attention. It’s not just another “privacy blockchain” story. What I find interesting is the idea of giving developers a way to decide what actually needs to stay private.
The technical side is pretty interesting too. With homomorphic encryption, computations can be done while the values remain encrypted. ZK proofs can then help show that things were done correctly without revealing the underlying information.
Think about a financial application handling balances or trade sizes. Why should all of that automatically become public just because the application is running onchain?
That’s where I think the idea gets interesting.
Privacy doesn’t necessarily have to mean hiding an entire blockchain. It could simply mean keeping certain information private when the application needs it.
If that became practical onchain, what would you build differently?
I’ve been looking at Solana from a slightly different angle lately.
The “fast blockchain” label gets repeated so much that it’s easy to miss what happens underneath it.
What interests me more is how the network keeps changing as usage grows. Improving execution and infrastructure matters because real adoption puts very different pressure on a chain than a quiet test environment does.
That’s probably the part I’ll be watching more closely: not just how fast Solana is today, but whether the network can keep adapting without making things harder for the developers building on it.
For me, that’s a more useful way to look at the ecosystem than simply watching the price.