#dusk $DUSK @Dusk Most blockchains force a choice early on. UTXO model or account model. Bitcoin went one way, Ethereum went the other, and everyone building on top inherited that decision whether it fit their use case or not.
Dusk didn't pick a side. It built Zedger instead.
Zedger is a hybrid transaction model that combines UTXO mechanics with account-based functionality. Neither one alone could support what Dusk actually needed. UTXOs are great for privacy, since transactions don't link back to a persistent identity the way account balances do. But securities settlement needs things UTXOs don't naturally handle well. Dividend distribution. Voting rights. Capped transfers with specific ownership limits.
This is the part most explanations skip. Zedger exists specifically because XSC, the Confidential Security Contract standard, needed a transaction model that could do both at once. Confidential smart contracts require the privacy properties of UTXOs and the functional complexity of accounts simultaneously. Neither model alone gets you there.
I didn't expect a transaction model to be the actual foundation of Dusk's compliance story. Most people go straight to XSC or to Dusk being a layer-1 privacy blockchain for financial applications and skip the layer underneath that makes XSC functionally possible in the first place.
Architecture decisions like this rarely get attention because they're invisible to end users. Nobody interacts with Zedger directly. But every compliant security token issued through XSC is running on top of it.
Would you rather a blockchain pick one transaction model and optimize hard, or build a hybrid to fit a specific use case properly?
@Dusk_Foundation $DUSK #dusk
$RED
Dusk didn't pick a side. It built Zedger instead.
Zedger is a hybrid transaction model that combines UTXO mechanics with account-based functionality. Neither one alone could support what Dusk actually needed. UTXOs are great for privacy, since transactions don't link back to a persistent identity the way account balances do. But securities settlement needs things UTXOs don't naturally handle well. Dividend distribution. Voting rights. Capped transfers with specific ownership limits.
This is the part most explanations skip. Zedger exists specifically because XSC, the Confidential Security Contract standard, needed a transaction model that could do both at once. Confidential smart contracts require the privacy properties of UTXOs and the functional complexity of accounts simultaneously. Neither model alone gets you there.
I didn't expect a transaction model to be the actual foundation of Dusk's compliance story. Most people go straight to XSC or to Dusk being a layer-1 privacy blockchain for financial applications and skip the layer underneath that makes XSC functionally possible in the first place.
Architecture decisions like this rarely get attention because they're invisible to end users. Nobody interacts with Zedger directly. But every compliant security token issued through XSC is running on top of it.
Would you rather a blockchain pick one transaction model and optimize hard, or build a hybrid to fit a specific use case properly?
@Dusk_Foundation $DUSK #dusk
$RED