In the era of MiCA, privacy sector players are facing a real dilemma: when trying to realize on-chain profits on exchanges, risk control departments will require proof of fund flows over the past three years — but the mixers you've used have long since deleted all traces, and your account faces the threat of permanent freezing.

This "privacy vs. regulation" confrontation seems unsolvable, but DUSK Network has taken an counterintuitive approach: instead of fighting against it, think from a different perspective. The core logic of its Citadel protocol is — not hiding your compliant identity, but only hiding specific data.

When using the Zedger model for transactions, you're actually generating a zero-knowledge proof that "I have completed KYC and my funds are legitimate." While this design diverges from the pursuit of absolute anonymity, for institutions that need to protect both trading strategy confidentiality and comply with regulatory scrutiny, this might be the only way out.

To put it simply: if your business model cannot tolerate the premise of "actively providing viewing permissions to regulators," then DUSK is indeed not suitable for you. But if what you care about is protecting core secrets within a compliant framework, this approach is worth exploring. Privacy is not about hiding, but about protecting what should be protected within transparency.