I’ve been sitting with @Dusk_Foundation ’s Phoenix note tree for a while and the depth-thirty-four choice keeps nagging at me.
Seventeen billion one hundred seventy-nine million leaves sounds almost unreal until you look at how the tree actually scales. Capacity jumps exponentially while the path you need to prove stays linear. Depth thirty-two gets you around four billion three hundred million. Thirty-four lands at seventeen billion. Thirty-six pushes past sixty-eight billion. Two extra levels and you suddenly have four times the room. Bump it one more level to thirty-five and the capacity doubles again, yet the proof only grows by a single step—roughly three percent more work. Every spent note still has to show a clean path to a recent root, so that linear cost never really goes away.
#Dusk
The big number is almost a distraction. Notes never leave the tree. It just keeps growing. Real pressure comes from how fast new notes appear versus how the network handles proving, witness data, long-term storage and state access as the history piles up. Privacy needs that structure, and structure always costs something. Depth thirty-four gives Dusk a massive theoretical ceiling. Whether that ceiling still feels comfortable once note creation stops being theoretical and starts looking like actual usage is the part I keep coming back to with the token.
$DUSK
Seventeen billion one hundred seventy-nine million leaves sounds almost unreal until you look at how the tree actually scales. Capacity jumps exponentially while the path you need to prove stays linear. Depth thirty-two gets you around four billion three hundred million. Thirty-four lands at seventeen billion. Thirty-six pushes past sixty-eight billion. Two extra levels and you suddenly have four times the room. Bump it one more level to thirty-five and the capacity doubles again, yet the proof only grows by a single step—roughly three percent more work. Every spent note still has to show a clean path to a recent root, so that linear cost never really goes away.
#Dusk
The big number is almost a distraction. Notes never leave the tree. It just keeps growing. Real pressure comes from how fast new notes appear versus how the network handles proving, witness data, long-term storage and state access as the history piles up. Privacy needs that structure, and structure always costs something. Depth thirty-four gives Dusk a massive theoretical ceiling. Whether that ceiling still feels comfortable once note creation stops being theoretical and starts looking like actual usage is the part I keep coming back to with the token.
$DUSK