#dusk $DUSK @Dusk I spent part of the afternoon actually tracing how Dusk turns stake into committee voting power, and I ended up finding a bigger difference than I expected.
At first I was looking at it the simple way: more DUSK stake should just mean more voting power. When I followed the selection flow that wasn’t the full picture.
Dusk uses deterministic sortition to pick provisioners for proposal, validation and ratification. A higher stake raises the chance of being selected, but once a provisioner enters a voting committee the important unit becomes Credits.
That was the part I had to look at twice. A provisioner can receive multiple Credits. Those Credits set the voting weight. Three Credits means that vote carries three times the weight of a provisioner with one Credit. The committee itself is built around a fixed 64-Credit structure.
While I was checking this I also pulled the live network numbers. More than 210 million DUSK is currently staked. At the same time the market was showing DUSK around $0.0757, a market cap near $38.1 million, daily volume of about $7.18 million, and circulating supply sitting roughly at 499 million.
Putting those figures next to the mechanism changed the question for me. I was no longer only asking how Dusk weights votes. I was asking what actually happens to those fixed 64 Credits when more than 210 million DUSK is already sitting in the staking system.
The path from stake to sortition to Credits to voting weight is clear in the docs. What is less obvious is the final distribution of influence once that much capital is active.
That is the part I want to dig into next.
At first I was looking at it the simple way: more DUSK stake should just mean more voting power. When I followed the selection flow that wasn’t the full picture.
Dusk uses deterministic sortition to pick provisioners for proposal, validation and ratification. A higher stake raises the chance of being selected, but once a provisioner enters a voting committee the important unit becomes Credits.
That was the part I had to look at twice. A provisioner can receive multiple Credits. Those Credits set the voting weight. Three Credits means that vote carries three times the weight of a provisioner with one Credit. The committee itself is built around a fixed 64-Credit structure.
While I was checking this I also pulled the live network numbers. More than 210 million DUSK is currently staked. At the same time the market was showing DUSK around $0.0757, a market cap near $38.1 million, daily volume of about $7.18 million, and circulating supply sitting roughly at 499 million.
Putting those figures next to the mechanism changed the question for me. I was no longer only asking how Dusk weights votes. I was asking what actually happens to those fixed 64 Credits when more than 210 million DUSK is already sitting in the staking system.
The path from stake to sortition to Credits to voting weight is clear in the docs. What is less obvious is the final distribution of influence once that much capital is active.
That is the part I want to dig into next.