What the DUSK token actually secures
When people talk about the DUSK token, they often describe it as gas or staking collateral. That framing is shallow.
The core role of DUSK is to secure the settlement boundary of the network.
On Dusk, execution can happen in multiple environments. DuskEVM for standard Solidity logic. Privacy layers for confidential flows. What ties everything together is not execution speed, but settlement finality.
DUSK is bonded at the layer where outcomes stop being negotiable. Validators stake DUSK to attest that a state entering DuskDS already satisfies eligibility rules, permissions, and protocol constraints. If that assumption fails, the cost is not abstract. It is economic.
This changes how the token functions compared to most networks.
DUSK is not primarily pricing computation. It is pricing correctness. The more value that settles through the system, the more expensive it becomes to misjudge validity at the boundary.
That is why DUSK does not need hyperinflationary incentives or artificial activity. Its value accrues from the amount of state the network is trusted to finalize without reinterpretation later.
In other words, DUSK is not designed to reward activity. It is designed to underwrite final decisions.
That distinction matters if you care about regulated assets, audits, and systems that must explain themselves years later, not just clear a block today.
