Privacy coin Monero recently hit a new all-time high, reigniting market interest in financial privacy. But this surge also raises a sharp question: can fully anonymous privacy coins truly support the tokenization of real-world assets like stocks, bonds, and real estate?

Honestly, regulators simply cannot accept a completely untraceable financial system. So the future of privacy is unlikely to be "hardcore anonymity," but rather "manageable privacy"—protecting ordinary traders' business secrets while leaving room for regulatory oversight and audits.

DUSK is taking this approach. It doesn't treat privacy as the ultimate goal but as the infrastructure for compliant finance. Through zero-knowledge proof technology, users can prove "I am eligible to trade" or "My assets are compliant" without revealing all underlying information. This is a must-have for scenarios like securities issuance, compliant financing, and private asset trading.

For example: a company privately issues bonds on a platform, keeping investor identities and holdings confidential, but can prove to regulators that all investors have passed KYC checks and that the number of investors complies with legal limits. This refined privacy control opens the door to the multi-trillion-dollar RWA tokenization market.

Monero's surge proves one thing: the market craves privacy. But DUSK points to a more realistic path—not hiding in the shadows, but protecting rights selectively under the spotlight.