#dusk $DUSK @Dusk topped up my stake. Only 90% went active.
Wasn't expecting that. Assumed adding to an already-active stake worked like staking fresh — send DUSK, it activates, done. Per @Duskfoundation staking docs, that's not the rule. Top up a live, already-active stake and only 90% of the new amount goes active immediately. The other 10% sits inactive, earning nothing, recoverable only through a full unstake. Catch: if the original stake hasn't finished its own maturity period yet, the split doesn't apply — the top-up just matures normally, no penalty.
So the split is conditional on timing, not on the act of topping up itself. Same action, adding DUSK to a stake, lands two different ways depending on which side of the maturity window you're on. That's not something the staking page leads with — you find it in the mechanics section, not the front page. It turns "add more stake" from a single click into a decision with a hidden timing cost, most of the time.
Anyone tracking how much DUSK sits permanently parked in that inactive 10%, across every active provisioner? Haven't found that number anywhere — not in the docs, not on their metrics dashboard.
Next: pulling an actual top-up transaction from Dusk's block explorer to see the split confirmed on-chain, not just described in the docs.
Wasn't expecting that. Assumed adding to an already-active stake worked like staking fresh — send DUSK, it activates, done. Per @Duskfoundation staking docs, that's not the rule. Top up a live, already-active stake and only 90% of the new amount goes active immediately. The other 10% sits inactive, earning nothing, recoverable only through a full unstake. Catch: if the original stake hasn't finished its own maturity period yet, the split doesn't apply — the top-up just matures normally, no penalty.
So the split is conditional on timing, not on the act of topping up itself. Same action, adding DUSK to a stake, lands two different ways depending on which side of the maturity window you're on. That's not something the staking page leads with — you find it in the mechanics section, not the front page. It turns "add more stake" from a single click into a decision with a hidden timing cost, most of the time.
Anyone tracking how much DUSK sits permanently parked in that inactive 10%, across every active provisioner? Haven't found that number anywhere — not in the docs, not on their metrics dashboard.
Next: pulling an actual top-up transaction from Dusk's block explorer to see the split confirmed on-chain, not just described in the docs.