Kept comparing this to every "EVM-compatible" announcement I've read for other L1s over the years. Usually means "we copied the interface." Wanted to see if this was different before I got excited.

Easy read: Solidity devs can now deploy straight onto Dusk, inherit privacy and compliance for free, no rewrite needed. Ethereum's entire toolchain, plus confidentiality Ethereum doesn't have. Best of both.

But ask what "inherit" actually means at the execution layer. DuskEVM runs as an application layer on top of Dusk's base chain the Hedger component is what does the actual private-transaction work, using zero-knowledge proofs plus homomorphic encryption. Solidity code doesn't get privacy by existing on the chain. Privacy is a separate module the contract has to route through

That's the thing getting compressed into "seamless migration." A contract written for public EVM assumptions public balances, public calls, composability that depends on everyone seeing everyone else's state doesn't just become private by redeploying. Either it stays effectively public and you got compatibility without the actual feature, or it uses Hedger and now composability, gas cost, and tooling all behave differently than the Solidity code assumed. You don't get both halves for free. You choose which assumption breaks.

Feels like dual-listing a private company's shares on a public exchange. Same legal entity, same cap table underneath but public listing rules, disclosure requirements, and trading mechanics are a completely different regime layered on top. The wrapper doesn't erase the difference, it just makes both look like normal trading from the outside.

Testnet activity (Rusk v1.7.0, Boreas upgrade) suggests the plumbing works. Whether real DeFi protocols migrate and actually use Hedger, versus just deploying vanilla contracts to collect a grant, is a different question entirely.

Watching to see how many DuskEVM contracts actually touch the privacy layer, versus just sit on top of it.

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