If you haven't followed the privacy public chain sector yet, the DUSK project is definitely worth a deep dive. It’s different from those Layer 1s that boast "millions of TPS" every day; this one has a particularly low-key style—quietly focusing on technology and only recently gaining market attention. Its price has risen from obscurity to $0.228, with a market cap surpassing $115 million, a 246% increase over the past 7 days, and a 24-hour trading volume soaring to $230 million, completely breaking out against the trend.

Don’t think this is just market hype. What truly supports DUSK is its innovative approach in the zero-knowledge proof field. The entire architecture is designed around ZK technology, utilizing a combination of PLONK-based ZK-SNARKs and recursive proofs. This technical system gives it real chops in privacy computing.

The most core innovation lies in the design of privacy smart contracts. Developers don’t need to write dedicated circuits for each application; they can simply submit the logic code, and the system will automatically generate proofs—making it extremely user-friendly. Each contract execution comes with a ZK "encryption shell"—user input data is encrypted, and the entire computation process is opaque to outsiders, with only a concise proof verified on-chain at the end. It balances security and privacy perfectly.

Think about scenarios in DeFi, such as calculating a user’s leveraged position without revealing the exact size to the counterparty. On DUSK, after the contract runs, it generates a proof just a few KB in size, and on-chain verification takes only milliseconds. Compared to other privacy solutions, this efficiency advantage is quite clear.