@Dusk_Foundation #dusk $DUSK
Just spent some time looking through the DuskEVM testnet announcement and one detail kept standing out.
Dusk isn't asking developers to learn an entirely new stack.
Solidity. Hardhat. Familiar Ethereum tooling.
That sounds like a small thing, but it may be the more important part of this launch.
Privacy-preserving applications have always had an infrastructure problem. The technology can be interesting, but if developers have to relearn everything before they can build, adoption becomes another problem entirely.
DuskEVM seems to be attacking that friction from the other side.
Keep the tooling developers already know, then add privacy-preserving execution underneath it.
And now that the testnet is live, the interesting question isn't really whether EVM applications can run on Dusk.
It's what developers choose to build once privacy becomes something they can experiment with without changing their entire workflow.
DeFi is the obvious category.
Tokenized assets and onchain finance are probably where this gets more interesting.
Makes me wonder whether DuskEVM's biggest milestone won't be the number of contracts deployed on testnet...
...but the first application that makes people realize why privacy needed to be part of the EVM stack in the first place.
Just spent some time looking through the DuskEVM testnet announcement and one detail kept standing out.
Dusk isn't asking developers to learn an entirely new stack.
Solidity. Hardhat. Familiar Ethereum tooling.
That sounds like a small thing, but it may be the more important part of this launch.
Privacy-preserving applications have always had an infrastructure problem. The technology can be interesting, but if developers have to relearn everything before they can build, adoption becomes another problem entirely.
DuskEVM seems to be attacking that friction from the other side.
Keep the tooling developers already know, then add privacy-preserving execution underneath it.
And now that the testnet is live, the interesting question isn't really whether EVM applications can run on Dusk.
It's what developers choose to build once privacy becomes something they can experiment with without changing their entire workflow.
DeFi is the obvious category.
Tokenized assets and onchain finance are probably where this gets more interesting.
Makes me wonder whether DuskEVM's biggest milestone won't be the number of contracts deployed on testnet...
...but the first application that makes people realize why privacy needed to be part of the EVM stack in the first place.