Privacy circles often discuss privacy and compliance as opposites, and most projects choose one or the other. But Dusk Network has wanted to do things differently since day one — insisting on integrating both. Looking back from 2026, it seems this gamble is starting to pay off.

**The Core Issue: A Real Challenge**

There's no need to elaborate on traditional finance — it's slow, expensive, and opaque. Blockchain was supposed to solve these issues, but traditional public chains have their own problems — everything is transparent, privacy is completely gone, and financial institutions get cold feet at the sight of it. On the other hand, pure privacy chains face regulatory troubles.

Dusk aims for a different path: to build a privacy-friendly financial infrastructure that also meets compliance standards. Technologically, it relies on native modules like Hedger, allowing asset issuance and trading to protect business secrets and personal privacy, while regulators still have access for audits. It sounds a bit idealistic, but in essence, it taps into a huge opportunity — enabling genuine institutional funds to confidently move on-chain.

**It's Not Just About Technology; Ecosystem Is the Real Test**

Recently, Dusk has had some interesting collaborations. For example, its deep partnership with Chainlink — a benchmark for on-chain and off-chain data bridging. Working with Chainlink indicates that Dusk is serious about ecosystem development...