I keep seeing the same familiar loop, the market screams about price, then goes quiet out of boredom, and builders quietly leave because they can’t take the small things that kill you, testnet stalls, missing docs, half baked tooling, truly ironic that what usually kills an ecosystem is not a big bug, but a thousand small frictions.
With Dusk, the question of mainnet, tooling, ecosystem grants sounds like a quiz, but I think it is really about choosing the most painful problem to solve first. Mainnet is a promise to the world that the system can be accountable, but if the tooling is not smooth, mainnet is just a bright sign, hanging in front of a door that is hard to open.
Tooling is where momentum is built, it decides how fast a team can ship, and it decides how a developer feels the moment they hit the first error. Grants are like pouring fuel, it can make a fire flare up, or it can just make thicker smoke if there is no clear runway.
Maybe Dusk Network has to push tooling first to keep builders around long enough, then use mainnet and grants to widen the rhythm, but if they could only choose one thing they absolutely cannot get wrong, what do you think it should be.
