Scrolled through a stretch of recent blocks on the Dusk explorer this week just to see what "normal" looks like day to day… and hold up — almost everything moving through was Moonlight, not Phoenix. #dusk $DUSK @Dusk — the shielded model everyone talks about when they talk about Dusk Foundation.
Makes sense once you sit with it. DuskEVM testnet went live Aug 10, gas paid in $DUSK, and every one of those transactions is public by design — Solidity tooling doesn't route through shielded notes, it's account-based, balances visible, same as any EVM chain. Even mainnet deposits get on-ramped as Moonlight balances at genesis. So block after block, what you're actually watching is the transparent rail doing the heavy lifting, not the private one.
Kept expecting to hit a run of Phoenix transfers and mostly didn't. Had to double check I wasn't misreading the explorer.
Not a knock, just noticed the gap — Phoenix is the headline feature, Moonlight is the workhorse right now. Compliance, exchange integration, EVM compatibility, all of it leans transparent by necessity. Privacy sits there as the option, available, technically sound, just… not what most blocks are actually doing yet.
Wonder at what point that ratio flips, or if "mostly public, privacy on demand" ends up being the permanent shape of it.
Makes sense once you sit with it. DuskEVM testnet went live Aug 10, gas paid in $DUSK, and every one of those transactions is public by design — Solidity tooling doesn't route through shielded notes, it's account-based, balances visible, same as any EVM chain. Even mainnet deposits get on-ramped as Moonlight balances at genesis. So block after block, what you're actually watching is the transparent rail doing the heavy lifting, not the private one.
Kept expecting to hit a run of Phoenix transfers and mostly didn't. Had to double check I wasn't misreading the explorer.
Not a knock, just noticed the gap — Phoenix is the headline feature, Moonlight is the workhorse right now. Compliance, exchange integration, EVM compatibility, all of it leans transparent by necessity. Privacy sits there as the option, available, technically sound, just… not what most blocks are actually doing yet.
Wonder at what point that ratio flips, or if "mostly public, privacy on demand" ends up being the permanent shape of it.
