@Dusk_Foundation kept assuming eligibility on Dusk was something you earned once and kept, like a badge that stayed pinned.

it's actually three separate mechanisms working together, and any one of them can take it away.

first: the minimum stake. i confirmed a Dusk provisioner needs 1000 DUSK locked, and below that threshold, nothing else about the stake matters.

second: maturity. even a stake above the minimum has to sit through a fixed number of epochs before Dusk's sortition counts it at all. $DUSK

third, and this is the one i almost missed: penalization. i found that repeated faults don't just cost rewards — each consecutive suspension moves an escalating percentage of stake into the claimable rewards pool, starting at 10% and climbing 10% with every subsequent violation.

i traced what happens when that penalization pushes a stake below the 1000 DUSK floor. it doesn't just lose weight in sortition. i found it gets frozen outright — the only way back on Dusk is unstaking the frozen remainder and restaking fresh.

so eligibility isn't a single gate a provisioner passes through once. it's three separate mechanisms — a floor, a clock, and a penalty schedule — any one of which can quietly disqualify a Dusk provisioner who thought they were still active. #dusk

does layering eligibility across three independent mechanisms make Dusk more resistant to gaming, or does it just make it easier for an honest provisioner to lose status without immediately realizing why?

#dusk $DUSK @Dusk