As we enter 2026, Dusk Network has made a big move—DuskEVM mainnet officially launched. This privacy-focused public chain, established in 2018, has officially entered the explosive growth phase of institutional applications.

To be honest, Dusk has had a quite unique positioning from the start: building regulated financial infrastructure. It uses a modular architecture that combines zero-knowledge proofs, homomorphic encryption, and EVM compatibility, creating an on-chain environment for institutions that can protect business secrets without violating audit requirements. With increasing global regulation, Dusk’s "compliant privacy" solution is becoming the preferred channel for traditional financial institutions to go on-chain—directly solving the dilemma of transparent chains leaking sensitive data and pure privacy chains being hard to audit.

The launch of DuskEVM is a real turning point. As a fully EVM-compatible application layer, developers can write Solidity smart contracts as usual, but all settlements are anchored on Dusk’s Layer 1 consensus. This is great news for Ethereum ecosystem projects—seamless migration, instantly gaining Dusk’s unique privacy capabilities.

The core feature is the Hedger privacy engine. Any EVM transaction can switch to confidential mode with one click: transaction amounts, addresses, and logical details are all hidden, but can be selectively disclosed to regulators or auditors when needed. This controllable privacy mechanism is designed specifically for institutional finance—private fund management chains don’t have to worry about holdings being exposed, large enterprises can keep M&A settlement details hidden from competitors, and derivatives traders can conceal strategies to avoid being front-run.