At 2 PM I staked 1,000 tokens. I opened the panel at night—the reward is still zero. Many people’s first reaction is that the node is broken. But more likely: the money has already entered, while the node hasn’t officially “started work” yet.
I rechecked the current staking documentation, @Dusk . The minimum threshold to directly participate in consensus is indeed 1,000 $DUSK , but newly staked funds won’t gain eligibility immediately. One epoch contains 2,160 blocks. Your stake activates only at the boundary of the next-next epoch—typically waiting about 6 to 12 hours, depending on where in the current epoch the transaction lands.
So the “2,160-block maturation period” can’t be simply understood as waiting a fixed one epoch. The shortest is close to one epoch, and the longest may approach two. What really matters isn’t the time on the wall, but the “stake active from block” returned by your wallet.
From the mechanism outcome, this concentrates validator eligibility at epoch boundary updates, preventing the active-stake set from changing mid-round consensus. But the cost is borne by new nodes: the funds have been submitted, yet during the waiting period you can’t produce blocks or vote.
The 1,000 tokens are only a capital threshold. Direct staking also requires the Provisioner to stay online continuously, remain in sync, and run the correct version. Rewards depend on the effective stake share and actual participation—so it’s a probabilistic result, not a guaranteed fixed annualized return.
I’ll watch three things: active from block, node synchronization and participation records, and the deviation between actual rewards and active stake. The most misleading part is exactly “1,000 tokens are enough to participate.” What you buy is entry eligibility, not a deposit certificate that pays out immediately.
#dusk $DUSK
I rechecked the current staking documentation, @Dusk . The minimum threshold to directly participate in consensus is indeed 1,000 $DUSK , but newly staked funds won’t gain eligibility immediately. One epoch contains 2,160 blocks. Your stake activates only at the boundary of the next-next epoch—typically waiting about 6 to 12 hours, depending on where in the current epoch the transaction lands.
So the “2,160-block maturation period” can’t be simply understood as waiting a fixed one epoch. The shortest is close to one epoch, and the longest may approach two. What really matters isn’t the time on the wall, but the “stake active from block” returned by your wallet.
From the mechanism outcome, this concentrates validator eligibility at epoch boundary updates, preventing the active-stake set from changing mid-round consensus. But the cost is borne by new nodes: the funds have been submitted, yet during the waiting period you can’t produce blocks or vote.
The 1,000 tokens are only a capital threshold. Direct staking also requires the Provisioner to stay online continuously, remain in sync, and run the correct version. Rewards depend on the effective stake share and actual participation—so it’s a probabilistic result, not a guaranteed fixed annualized return.
I’ll watch three things: active from block, node synchronization and participation records, and the deviation between actual rewards and active stake. The most misleading part is exactly “1,000 tokens are enough to participate.” What you buy is entry eligibility, not a deposit certificate that pays out immediately.
#dusk $DUSK
