Quick one for anyone confused about what "EVM-compatible" actually means for a privacy chain — because DuskEVM doesn't work the way people assume.
The common assumption: Dusk is a privacy chain, so anything built on it must be private by default. Not how DuskEVM works. It runs standard Solidity contracts using the OP Stack for execution, with Dusk's base layer handling settlement. That means developers get familiar tooling — same contracts, same deployment flow as any other EVM chain. But those contracts are transparent unless a developer specifically builds with Dusk's confidential primitives instead.
So EVM compatibility and privacy are two separate design choices here, not one bundled feature. A team could deploy on DuskEVM today and end up with a fully public contract, same as deploying on any L2. The privacy tooling exists, but it's opt-in, not automatic.
That's worth knowing before assuming every dApp on Dusk inherits the chain's privacy reputation.
$DUSK is trading around $0.0745 today, market cap near $44.7M, with roughly $4M in 24h volume.
@Dusk is clearly betting developers will choose the confidential path once it's easy enough to reach. Question is whether "opt-in privacy" gets adopted by default, or whether most contracts on DuskEVM end up just as transparent as everywhere else.
$DUSK #dusk
The common assumption: Dusk is a privacy chain, so anything built on it must be private by default. Not how DuskEVM works. It runs standard Solidity contracts using the OP Stack for execution, with Dusk's base layer handling settlement. That means developers get familiar tooling — same contracts, same deployment flow as any other EVM chain. But those contracts are transparent unless a developer specifically builds with Dusk's confidential primitives instead.
So EVM compatibility and privacy are two separate design choices here, not one bundled feature. A team could deploy on DuskEVM today and end up with a fully public contract, same as deploying on any L2. The privacy tooling exists, but it's opt-in, not automatic.
That's worth knowing before assuming every dApp on Dusk inherits the chain's privacy reputation.
$DUSK is trading around $0.0745 today, market cap near $44.7M, with roughly $4M in 24h volume.
@Dusk is clearly betting developers will choose the confidential path once it's easy enough to reach. Question is whether "opt-in privacy" gets adopted by default, or whether most contracts on DuskEVM end up just as transparent as everywhere else.
$DUSK #dusk
