Let's analyze the technical details of DuskEVM. DuskEVM is the EVM execution layer in the Dusk modular architecture, launching on the mainnet in early 2026, designed specifically for compliant finance. In simple terms, it allows developers to write contracts and deploy dApps directly using Solidity and Ethereum tools, with almost zero migration costs, but adds privacy and regulatory-friendly features at the underlying layer.
Core architecture: Based on OP Stack (Optimism's stack), supporting EIP-4844 Proto-Danksharding, which reduces data costs with blobs. The execution is fully EVM equivalent, following Ethereum rules exactly, but settlement and data availability rely on the DuskDS layer (consensus + settlement), achieving modular separation, improving scalability and security.
The most hardcore part is the privacy implementation: through the Hedger tool (Alpha version already launched), combining homomorphic encryption (HE) and zero-knowledge proofs (ZK-SNARKs), making contracts and transactions confidential. Transaction details, balances, and logic are all hidden, only proving 'legitimacy and compliance', supporting selective disclosure audits when required by regulators. This is not fully anonymous but rather a balance of 'business confidentiality + auditability', which institutions find very appealing.
Hedger runs on DuskEVM, processing ZK operations through precompiled contracts, with performance significantly more efficient than pure ZK. Compared to the old Zedger (UTXO era), Hedger is more suited to the account model and has strong compatibility.
Overall, DuskEVM inherits Dusk's privacy genes, while providing a seamless developer experience with Ethereum. There will be further supplements to the DuskVM privacy layer. In summary, it perfectly merges the universality of EVM with Dusk's compliant privacy, making it super friendly for RWA and institutional DeFi. The technology is already mature; actual implementation depends on the ecosystem.