I once read about how airports became more complicated as flying became normal.
The plane was never the only problem. The real challenge was coordinating passengers, luggage, security, airlines, schedules, and information without exposing everything to everyone.
At first I assumed blockchain finance had a similar problem: just put financial assets on-chain, make everything transparent, and efficiency would follow.
The more I read about @Dusk , the less convinced I am.
Imagine a bank settling a tokenized security. It wants the transaction verified. Regulators need confidence that the rules were followed. The counterparty needs enough information to complete the deal.
But does everyone really need to see the bank's entire financial position?
Probably not.
That is where #Dusk gets interesting to me. Its focus on confidential smart contracts and the XSC standard suggests a different idea: maybe financial blockchains don't need maximum transparency. They need controlled visibility.
Maybe that's true.
I'm not sure, though, because privacy creates another coordination problem. Who decides what can be hidden, what must be proven, and who gets to verify it?
I keep coming back to that.
Perhaps the difficult part isn't building private transactions.
Perhaps it's creating a system where institutions can trust the rules around privacy enough to actually use it.
Still, that's the question I find more interesting: can blockchain make finance verifiable without making every detail visible? #dusk @Dusk $DUSK $RICE $RE