Dusk and the Cost of Knowing
Regulated desks are pushing tokenized flows into production while confidentiality is non-negotiable and auditability is mandatory. Supervisors want a checkable answer without getting the whole book of records. Dusk is built so a transfer can stay private and still be verifiable.
Proofs move compliance from reports after the fact to constraints enforced at execution. A transaction can prove eligibility, limits, and asset rules, and reveal details only to parties with viewing authority. Audits shift toward verifying proofs and narrow disclosures instead of broad data access.
Dusk’s Moonlight and Phoenix modes make this operational. Moonlight supports flows that must be public, Phoenix supports shielded flows that must still satisfy rules. Both paths aim to output verifiable compliance that institutions can integrate into settlement and oversight.
The trade-offs are compute for proving, key management for disclosures, and governance when circuits or parameters evolve. If Dusk keeps proofs stable and policy-ready, verification becomes the default settlement handshake, and a transfer is finished only when it can be verified.
