As a long-term developer focused on privacy public chains, I have been searching for such a foundational platform: one that truly achieves privacy protection, supports efficient cross-chain operations, and most importantly, allows developers to quickly get started and deploy applications.

Over the years, I have seen too many public chains claiming "privacy + high performance," but either their virtual machine ecosystems are incomplete, lacking mature toolchains for developers, or their privacy and cross-chain functionalities are disjointed, failing to meet the needs of financial applications. It wasn't until the end of last year, when I experienced Dusk Foundation's Piecrust virtual machine V0.29, that this situation began to improve.

My initial interest in Piecrust was sparked by the DUSK community's cross-chain privacy application development incentive program. At that time, I happened to have an idea for a privacy transfer tool, but I was stuck on choosing the technology stack—writing ZK-Rollups solutions on Ethereum is too complex, and other privacy public chains' virtual machines generally have limited support for mainstream languages like Rust and C++.

Later, I discovered that Piecrust V0.29 natively supports Wasm contracts and offers complete tooling support for Rust and C++. I downloaded the development package to try it out. I was genuinely surprised—documentation was clear, the development toolchain was easy to set up, and the community responded quickly. From building a simple privacy DApp prototype to testing cross-chain interactions with Harmony, the entire process was much smoother than I had expected.

This experience made me realize that DUSK is worth paying attention to, not because of hype, but because it has genuinely built a usable underlying foundation through continuous technological iteration. Compatibility of the virtual machine, completeness of development tools, privacy-preserving design of cross-chain functions—these seemingly "unsexy" aspects are precisely the key to whether privacy public chains can achieve large-scale adoption.