Dusk is worth paying continuous attention to.

Its newly launched EVM-compatible layer directly lowers the development threshold for privacy contracts. For developers already familiar with Solidity, deploying zero-knowledge proofs is no longer a challenge—the core architecture thoroughly addresses the data leakage concerns that traditional financial institutions worry about. The technical foundation is indeed solid.

Especially with the Citadel protocol, which cleverly finds a balance between "must comply" and "strict privacy." After a user completes a single identity verification, they can operate freely without exposing personal information, fundamentally resolving the awkwardness of compliance reviews.

What’s more convincing is the real-world application. A leading European securities exchange is migrating billions of assets onto this chain, which is not a conceptual story but actual trading data in operation.

The execution efficiency of the Piecrust virtual machine is another advantage. Its self-developed architecture achieves high efficiency, much smoother than patched Layer 2 scaling solutions, and is gradually meeting the liquidity needs of traditional finance.

The development direction of such projects is quite clear.