The first time you hear a serious trader talk about on-chain markets, it’s rarely about yield. It’s about exposure. “How do you run size when everyone can see you building a position?” That question alone explains why Dusk’s modular design matters. Institutions don’t want experiments. They want infrastructure—systems that behave predictably, manage risk cleanly, and don’t fall apart every time there’s an upgrade.
Dusk approaches this by avoiding a one-size-fits-all blockchain. Instead of forcing execution, settlement, privacy, and data availability into a single layer, it separates them. The base layer focuses on consensus and settlement (DuskDS), execution lives in DuskEVM, and privacy is handled in its own environment. This isn’t about buzzwords. It’s about isolating risk. When one layer changes, the whole system doesn’t have to. That’s the difference between something institutions can plan around and something they can’t touch.
