In the privacy public chain sector, it’s been watching one project after another die due to high developer barriers. However, Dusk’s approach of leveraging EVM compatibility is quite interesting.

Since their EVM testnet launched at the end of last year, I specifically compared the development experience with traditional privacy chains. To be honest, their multi-layer architecture design does encounter some tough issues—these have long been pain points in privacy protocols.

Regarding the tech stack, DuskEVM directly uses OP Stack. It sounds simple, but it’s very meaningful. All the tools in the Ethereum ecosystem—Hardhat, Remix, MetaMask—can be plugged in and used seamlessly. I’ve personally deployed standard Solidity contracts on it, and from development to RPC calls, it feels exactly like working on Optimism or Arbitrum.

What are the tangible benefits of this compatibility? Migration costs drop dramatically. Previously, those customized L1s required developers to re-learn proprietary virtual machine languages, with integration cycles easily taking half a year. Now? It can be implemented in a few weeks, and the efficiency boost is quite significant.

But there’s an easy point to overlook here. DuskEVM isn’t just a simple fork of Ethereum’s execution layer. Its settlement and data availability are anchored to the DuskDS main chain, which runs on Succinct Attestation consensus, not a conventional PoS mechanism. The brilliance of this design lies in deterministic finality—once a transaction is packed, it’s final and cannot be overturned. Compared to some L2 solutions that still require a 7-day challenge period, the difference is substantial.