Audit week is when enthusiasm dies.
Not because of bugs. Because of calendars.
A team finished contracts. Audits paid. Findings closed. Then the migration question surfaced in its worst form. What changes that forces re approval.
Not throughput.
Not roadmap.
Observation assumptions.
Confidential execution breaks dashboards that assume full visibility. Monitoring tools start guessing. Auditors hate guessing.
This is where DuskEVM matters. Not because it is EVM. But because it keeps contracts boring.
Same Solidity. Same tooling. Same signing behavior. The scary part moves lower. Into evidence planes. Into disclosure boundaries. Into places procurement actually reviews.
Without that continuity, audits reopen. Threat models expand. Weeks disappear. Not from technical difficulty but from paperwork gravity.
Moonlight changes what can be seen.
Phoenix changes who can attest.
Neither is optional once used.
The first hard question teams ask is not about gas or performance. It is whether their monitoring will stay honest when proofs replace raw data.
If the answer sounds like a new mental model, migration quietly dies. If the answer is same contracts different rails, a meeting gets scheduled.
DuskEVM does not sell the vision.
It saves the calendar.
And in regulated environments, that is usually what decides adoption.
