DuskEVM just went live, and the part I’m watching isn’t the launch itself.
It’s how quickly the first few developers actually move from “I can deploy here” to “I want to keep building here.”
I’ve been looking at the DuskEVM setup, and the obvious friction is much lower than Dusk’s native developer path. Solidity and Vyper are supported, and existing EVM tooling is supposed to carry over. That matters because asking developers to learn a new stack is one thing. Asking them to change their entire workflow is another.
But compatibility only gets you to the starting line.
Dusk already has 2 contract paths: DuskEVM and DuskVM. So now there’s a more practical question. If I’m a developer with an existing Solidity application, what makes me choose DuskEVM over the dozens of places where that same code can already run?
The answer probably won’t come from another feature announcement.
It’ll show up in actual deployments, wallet activity, contract interactions and whether developers come back after the first experiment.
Even the GitHub side is worth watching. The public DuskEVM genesis repo was updated on July 28, which shows the pieces have been moving into place, but launch-day activity is a different test.
Now I’m mostly curious about the first 30 days, because that’s when “EVM-compatible” either becomes useful or starts sounding like...
@Dusk_Foundation #dusk $DUSK $DEXE
It’s how quickly the first few developers actually move from “I can deploy here” to “I want to keep building here.”
I’ve been looking at the DuskEVM setup, and the obvious friction is much lower than Dusk’s native developer path. Solidity and Vyper are supported, and existing EVM tooling is supposed to carry over. That matters because asking developers to learn a new stack is one thing. Asking them to change their entire workflow is another.
But compatibility only gets you to the starting line.
Dusk already has 2 contract paths: DuskEVM and DuskVM. So now there’s a more practical question. If I’m a developer with an existing Solidity application, what makes me choose DuskEVM over the dozens of places where that same code can already run?
The answer probably won’t come from another feature announcement.
It’ll show up in actual deployments, wallet activity, contract interactions and whether developers come back after the first experiment.
Even the GitHub side is worth watching. The public DuskEVM genesis repo was updated on July 28, which shows the pieces have been moving into place, but launch-day activity is a different test.
Now I’m mostly curious about the first 30 days, because that’s when “EVM-compatible” either becomes useful or starts sounding like...
@Dusk_Foundation #dusk $DUSK $DEXE