There has been a growing consensus in Web3 finance over the past two years: the ultimate winners will be those projects that can ensure compliance while protecting privacy. The Dusk team is doing exactly that, and they have been laying the groundwork for 8 years. It looks like the ecosystem may explode around 2026.

Let's first look at the technology. In the second week of January, the DuskEVM mainnet officially launched, which is indeed a watershed moment for the Dusk ecosystem. You need to understand what a watershed means—it not only supports EVM compatibility but also, more importantly, allows Solidity developers to migrate their projects at zero cost without redevelopment. Then, leveraging the technical advantages of Dusk Layer1 itself, you can simultaneously solve the three difficult problems of compliance, efficiency, and security. For institutions, this provides a development environment that truly meets regulatory requirements; for developers, the user base of the entire EVM ecosystem becomes a natural flow of traffic. This bidirectional empowerment could significantly accelerate ecosystem expansion.

Speaking of the technical solution Hedger. This set of tools is essentially Dusk’s privacy compliance solution, with the core being zero-knowledge proof technology that makes transaction data "privacy verifiable"—to put it plainly, users don’t need to expose sensitive information, and the audit process can still be completed. In scenarios where traditional finance and Web3 merge, this is extremely important. The alpha version of Hedger is already running, and there is still plenty of room for future iterations.