I’ve been watching the DuskEVM launch from the developer side, and the interesting part isn’t that Solidity works on Dusk now.
It’s how quickly that lowers the friction.
A Solidity developer can bring familiar tooling like Hardhat into the process instead of learning an entirely different development workflow from scratch. That matters. But it also creates a harder question for Dusk.
If the barrier was tooling, we should start seeing experiments move faster.
If the barrier was actually finding something worth building, better developer access won’t solve much.
That’s the metric I’d watch now.
Not the number of contracts deployed in the first few days. Not how many developers connect their wallets. I’d look for applications that keep getting used after the initial testing phase.
Even 10–20 genuinely active applications would tell me more than hundreds of short-lived deployments.
There’s also a small frustration here. EVM compatibility makes entry easier, but it can also make Dusk feel like just another place to deploy Solidity code.
The harder part is getting developers to use what Dusk offers specifically.
So I’m less interested in “DuskEVM is live” as a milestone.
I’m more interested in what developers build when the novelty wears off, because that’s where the real signal should start appearing.
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk
It’s how quickly that lowers the friction.
A Solidity developer can bring familiar tooling like Hardhat into the process instead of learning an entirely different development workflow from scratch. That matters. But it also creates a harder question for Dusk.
If the barrier was tooling, we should start seeing experiments move faster.
If the barrier was actually finding something worth building, better developer access won’t solve much.
That’s the metric I’d watch now.
Not the number of contracts deployed in the first few days. Not how many developers connect their wallets. I’d look for applications that keep getting used after the initial testing phase.
Even 10–20 genuinely active applications would tell me more than hundreds of short-lived deployments.
There’s also a small frustration here. EVM compatibility makes entry easier, but it can also make Dusk feel like just another place to deploy Solidity code.
The harder part is getting developers to use what Dusk offers specifically.
So I’m less interested in “DuskEVM is live” as a milestone.
I’m more interested in what developers build when the novelty wears off, because that’s where the real signal should start appearing.
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk