The story of the crypto industry is being rewritten. The era of wild growth is gradually coming to an end, replaced by a profound shift from "code is king" to "regulations are king." This is not only an upgrade in technological philosophy but also an inevitable choice for the entire ecosystem to align with the real-world financial system.

In this major upheaval, Dusk, a Layer 1 blockchain launched in 2018, appears to be somewhat special — from its inception, it has focused on the intersection of privacy and compliance. Don’t let this niche sound unimportant; behind it lies a huge market gap.

Simply put, Dusk’s core ambition is to put institutional-grade assets into ordinary people's wallets. It sounds straightforward, but to truly achieve this, breakthroughs are needed simultaneously in compliance and privacy. To reach this goal, Dusk has built five foundational pillars — profitable and productized smart contracts, privacy-level token management, global regulatory adaptability, second-level transaction settlement, and a single data source announcement mechanism. When combined, these five elements form Dusk’s unique compliant financial capabilities.

Numbers speak for themselves. Over 76% of traditional financial institutions worldwide have entered the crypto space. What they want is not flashy innovation but solid compliance assurance. Dusk’s ecosystem layout precisely targets this demand — a zero-trust custody solution in partnership with Cordial is already running on the NPEX platform, paving a compliant path for RWA assets; integrating Chainlink oracles has opened the door to the European compliant market. These are not marketing gimmicks but real applications running on the chain.

It seems that in this new era where rules matter more than code, projects that understand compliance have become a scarce resource.