I've always thought confidential and smart contract felt like an odd piaring smart contracts are famous for being transparent and auditable by anyone.
Dusk Network is a layer 1 blockchain meaning it's not a rollup or sidechain bolted onto someone elses infrastructure it's its own base layer purpose built around privacy for financial applications.
On top of that base layer sits the Confidential Security Contract (XSC) standard which supports confidential smart contracts specifically for financial applications.
I'm watching to see how many other chains eventually follow this same base-layer-first approach, because retrofitting privacy rarely works as well as building for it from the start.
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