Dusk's docs scope something specific: DuskEVM is called out as the layer where DUSK actually functions as gas — a per-transaction cost. That's oddly narrow for a project whose real pitch is regulated-asset settlement. $DUSK , #dusk, @Dusk . #dusk
Then I found a statement from Dusk's own CTO, posted on X: economic value accrues to DUSK because fees from settlement, issuance, trading, and infrastructure all flow back to stakers. That's a bigger claim than "gas token." Zedger, the protocol handling regulated security tokens, runs natively on DuskDS — the settlement and data-availability layer, not the layer where gas gets charged.
So there are two claims sitting next to each other: docs say gas is scoped to DuskEVM specifically, CTO says value from the whole stack — including DuskDS-native settlement — flows to stakers anyway. Those aren't contradictory, but they're not the same mechanism either. One is a per-tx fee market, the other sounds like a rewards-pool claim. What changed for me is realizing "DUSK captures value" can be true through staking rewards even if DUSK never touches most regulated-asset transactions as gas at all.
Worth checking next: the actual fee split feeding the staking rewards pool — does DuskDS settlement activity contribute directly, or is the CTO's claim resting mostly on future DuskEVM gas volume?
Then I found a statement from Dusk's own CTO, posted on X: economic value accrues to DUSK because fees from settlement, issuance, trading, and infrastructure all flow back to stakers. That's a bigger claim than "gas token." Zedger, the protocol handling regulated security tokens, runs natively on DuskDS — the settlement and data-availability layer, not the layer where gas gets charged.
So there are two claims sitting next to each other: docs say gas is scoped to DuskEVM specifically, CTO says value from the whole stack — including DuskDS-native settlement — flows to stakers anyway. Those aren't contradictory, but they're not the same mechanism either. One is a per-tx fee market, the other sounds like a rewards-pool claim. What changed for me is realizing "DUSK captures value" can be true through staking rewards even if DUSK never touches most regulated-asset transactions as gas at all.
Worth checking next: the actual fee split feeding the staking rewards pool — does DuskDS settlement activity contribute directly, or is the CTO's claim resting mostly on future DuskEVM gas volume?