Many people are still chasing projects with little practical use, but there is one called DUSK that is quietly doing great things. The modular architecture launched this time plays a very clever balance between privacy and compliance.

The most impressive is the Hedger engine. It introduces homomorphic encryption technology, allowing transaction data to be directly verified in encrypted form without decryption—equivalent to putting a stealth cloak on each transaction. As a result, those traditionally cautious financial institutions are attracted in, since both compliance and privacy are guaranteed.

The DuskDS settlement layer design is also very aggressive. By integrating the MIPS pre-verification mechanism, the previously cumbersome 7-day challenge period was directly optimized away, making the settlement speed so fast that it’s hard to keep up. From a technical perspective, this combination has significant implications for the advancement of the entire privacy computing field.