Spent the last hour poking around Dusk after wrapping the CreatorPad task, and the thing that actually stuck with me wasn't the mainnet numbers, it was the DuskEVM testnet going live on August 13. Dusk (@Dusk , $DUSK , #dusk ) has been pitching privacy preserving EVM compatibility for a while, so I went in expecting a fairly plug and play experience for anyone coming from Ethereum tooling.

That's not quite what I found. Deploying against a chain where confidential state and selective disclosure sit underneath the EVM layer means a lot of the usual assumptions about how you read transaction data don't transfer cleanly. Contracts behave the same on the surface, but debugging and indexing feel different once privacy is baked in rather than bolted on.

Small honest admission: I went in thinking "EVM compatible" basically meant "copy-paste your contracts," and that assumption didn't survive contact. It's testnet, so rough edges are expected, but it made the privacy-compliance tradeoff feel more structural than marketing copy usually lets on.

Curious whether that friction eases once tooling matures, or if it's just the permanent cost of doing privacy at the protocol level.

Did the DuskEVM testnet friction change how you see Dusk?