Each L1 now boasts about how powerful their virtual machine is and how impressive their performance is, but look at who is actually using them? Almost none. The fundamental reason is quite simple—developer ecosystems are not taking off.

Currently, there are probably hundreds of thousands of Solidity developers worldwide. Asking them to switch to Rust or Move? Most simply don't have the bandwidth. Especially in a bear market, project budgets are tight; who would spend money to train their team in a new language?

There's an interesting solution—some privacy public chain directly uses OP Stack to build DuskEVM, fully compatible with the EVM ecosystem. Think about what this means: any Dapp on Ethereum could theoretically migrate seamlessly. Development tools like Hardhat, Truffle, Remix can be used directly, and MetaMask wallets can connect as well. For developers, this drastically reduces costs.

This approach seems conservative but is very smart commercially. Polygon and Arbitrum's success largely stems from EVM compatibility lowering migration barriers.

However, this chain hasn't fully taken a conservative route. It also retains a privacy-first design in DuskVM, running zero-knowledge proof primitives on a WASM virtual machine. This combination is quite innovative—you can quickly deploy regular applications on DuskEVM to attract traffic and funds, then gradually migrate privacy-sensitive parts (like order books or core logic of liquidity pools) to DuskVM. This incremental migration is much more practical than chains that force developers to rewrite all their code at once.

From a cost perspective, the integration cost with EVM is only 1/50 of that of native L1, and development cycles are compressed from six months to a few weeks. This is a major benefit for exchanges, wallets, and custodians—they don't need to develop separate backend systems for this chain; existing Ethereum infrastructure can support it with minor adjustments.

In the current fierce infrastructure competition, this pragmatic approach has become a competitive advantage.