DuskEVM testnet just went live, and it's a fairly deliberate bet: instead of asking developers to learn a new stack, it hands them the one they already know. Solidity, Hardhat, Foundry, standard EVM wallets all work as-is, because DuskEVM runs on OP Stack and speaks the standard Ethereum JSON-RPC interface. What changes is underneath. Execution settles back to DuskDS, Dusk's own consensus and data-availability layer, and gas is paid in DUSK instead of ETH. For teams building DeFi protocols or tokenized asset platforms, that's the real pitch: you don't trade tooling maturity for settlement guarantees, and you're not locked into a bespoke chain most auditors and exchanges have never touched. Since DuskEVM sits next to Hedger, apps that later need confidential transaction flows have a path there too, without leaving the EVM environment they started building in.
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