Developer adoption is rarely blocked by ideology or vision, it is blocked by friction. Most builders already know how to ship on Ethereum, and asking them to abandon familiar tooling for a completely new stack creates hidden costs that slow ecosystems before they even start. DuskEVM addresses this problem by preserving the Ethereum development experience while embedding confidentiality at the execution layer, which reframes privacy from an add-on into a native property of applications. That matters because financial software does not just need transparency, it needs selective disclosure, controlled data visibility, and enforceable guarantees around who can see what and when. This is where Dusk’s positioning becomes interesting, because privacy is often framed as incompatible with regulation, yet regulated finance depends on confidentiality just as much as it depends on oversight. By enabling developers to deploy finance-oriented applications without rewriting their mental models or codebases, DuskEVM lowers the barrier to building token markets, compliant DeFi primitives, and RWA issuance tools that are usable outside crypto-native circles. The result is not faster experimentation for its own sake, but a shorter path from prototype to institution-ready infrastructure. Chains that require custom languages or radically different environments may achieve technical elegance, but they struggle to attract sustained builder activity. A system that feels familiar while quietly solving real financial constraints has a different growth dynamic, one rooted in pragmatism rather than novelty. If privacy-aware, regulation-compatible applications are the next phase of blockchain utility, then developer comfort becomes a strategic advantage, not a convenience. That is the role DuskEVM plays in the broader thesis around @Dusk and the long-term relevance of $DUSK #dusk