DuskEVM could solve Dusk’s developer problem. But not its adoption problem.
I spent some time looking at the EVM path, and the obvious improvement is friction. Solidity developers don’t need to relearn the entire stack just to start building on Dusk.
That matters.
Dusk now has 3 development paths: Native, EVM, and Confidential EVM. The EVM route gives developers a much more familiar entry point, which should make experimentation cheaper and faster.
But there’s a catch I keep coming back to.
Lowering the cost of building doesn’t automatically create a reason to stay.
A developer can deploy an EVM contract, test the network, and leave if there’s no user activity, liquidity, or actual demand waiting on the other side.
That makes DuskEVM interesting for a different reason. I’d watch what happens after the initial developer wave, not just how many projects launch.
If Dusk gets 10 new teams experimenting but only 1 keeps building, the tooling improvement isn’t really the story.
The harder metric is retention.
Because making Dusk easier to enter is one problem.
Making someone care enough to keep using it is another...
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk
I spent some time looking at the EVM path, and the obvious improvement is friction. Solidity developers don’t need to relearn the entire stack just to start building on Dusk.
That matters.
Dusk now has 3 development paths: Native, EVM, and Confidential EVM. The EVM route gives developers a much more familiar entry point, which should make experimentation cheaper and faster.
But there’s a catch I keep coming back to.
Lowering the cost of building doesn’t automatically create a reason to stay.
A developer can deploy an EVM contract, test the network, and leave if there’s no user activity, liquidity, or actual demand waiting on the other side.
That makes DuskEVM interesting for a different reason. I’d watch what happens after the initial developer wave, not just how many projects launch.
If Dusk gets 10 new teams experimenting but only 1 keeps building, the tooling improvement isn’t really the story.
The harder metric is retention.
Because making Dusk easier to enter is one problem.
Making someone care enough to keep using it is another...
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk