Public chain track has long been a red ocean, but Dusk Foundation is going against the trend—not wanting to compete with Ethereum and Solana for general platform business, but instead choosing a more vertical direction: building the privacy settlement infrastructure for the global financial system.

This positioning is actually quite clever. Traditional finance has always had a demand for privacy and compliance, but very few public chains can truly handle both of these seemingly contradictory requirements at the same time. Dusk’s approach is to achieve this through technological breakthroughs, dialogue with regulatory authorities, and ecosystem collaborations, positioning itself as a leader in the "compliant privacy" niche.

In the long term, their ambitions are significant—they aim to become the underlying infrastructure for large-scale, regulated value exchanges. In other words, they are targeting the standard-setting authority for the next generation of private financial systems. Compared to directly competing in the general platform space head-on, this approach may carry fewer risks.