#dusk $DUSK @Dusk been staring at provisioner dusk list for the last hour instead of doing literally anything productive. wrapped a Dusk CreatorPad task and one number wouldn't leave my head: 206 active provisioners out of 271 total, per The DUDE explorer with only 5 sitting in the pending queue. Locked stake reads ~1.6M DUSK, staking APR at 22.31%.
Hold up that's... not much movement. Mainnet's been live since January. The launch-day pitch leaned hard on "permissionless validator onboarding," decentralization as a headline feature. Eight-plus months in, the line to join consensus is five nodes deep.
Here's the actual behavior I noticed: the early professional operators who staked at or near genesis are still the ones holding most of that locked stake, and by extension most of the yield. New entrants trickle in one at a time instead of in waves. Nothing scandalous PoS networks are basically always front loaded like this but the "anyone can run a node" framing reads different once you're watching the pending column sit at single digits for a full session.
Snack's gone, still chewing on it though. Is 271 provisioners "enough" decentralization for a chain built to carry regulated RWA settlement, or is that just a number nobody's supposed to stare at too closely yet…
$PROM $PORTAL
Hold up that's... not much movement. Mainnet's been live since January. The launch-day pitch leaned hard on "permissionless validator onboarding," decentralization as a headline feature. Eight-plus months in, the line to join consensus is five nodes deep.
Here's the actual behavior I noticed: the early professional operators who staked at or near genesis are still the ones holding most of that locked stake, and by extension most of the yield. New entrants trickle in one at a time instead of in waves. Nothing scandalous PoS networks are basically always front loaded like this but the "anyone can run a node" framing reads different once you're watching the pending column sit at single digits for a full session.
Snack's gone, still chewing on it though. Is 271 provisioners "enough" decentralization for a chain built to carry regulated RWA settlement, or is that just a number nobody's supposed to stare at too closely yet…
$PROM $PORTAL
