I was poking around Dusk's testnet contracts trying to figure out why their EVM compatibility layer got so little attention compared to the privacy messaging, and I think that's actually the more interesting story. $DUSK , #dusk ,@Dusk ships an EVM-compatible execution environment, which sounds like a checkbox feature until you actually try deploying something. What stood out to me was watching a Solidity contract I'd written for a totally different chain get redeployed on Dusk with maybe a dozen lines changed, mostly around how state transitions interact with their confidential proving layer. Most privacy-focused chains force you to learn an entirely new mental model before you write a single line, which quietly filters out a lot of builders who'd otherwise experiment. Dusk seems to be betting that familiarity is the actual bottleneck, not tooling maturity. I checked their devnet activity logs and the contracts being deployed right now are mostly ports, not native experiments, which tells me developers are still testing the waters rather than committing. Whether that EVM bridge turns into genuine developer migration or just becomes a comfortable on-ramp people never leave is the part I can't answer yet from usage data alone.