I was just scrolling through The DUDE the other night, checking how many people are actually securing the @Dusk_Foundation network, when something made me pause.
Over 210 million DUSK is staked. APR is sitting around 22-23%. Hundreds of provisioners are online. On the surface it looks clean and strong.
Then I noticed the locked stake and the pile of unclaimed rewards still sitting there. That sent me into the staking docs.
Here’s what I found: when your stake is already active and you decide to add more $DUSK , only 90% of the top-up starts earning right away. The other 10% goes into locked status. It stays yours, but it earns nothing and only comes free when you fully unstake and start over.
It’s not a bug. It’s built that way on purpose so people can’t keep topping up and gaming the sortition weighting.
The network basically prefers people who commit fully instead of those who keep adding little by little without thinking.
A lot of retail stakers probably have no idea this is happening. They just keep topping up, thinking the whole amount is working for them, while a quiet 10% sits frozen.
Makes you wonder how many of the registered provisioners are currently sitting on that inactive slice without realizing it.
If you’re staking or planning to add more, take two minutes and check the docs. Better to know the rules than leave free rewards on the table.
#dusk
Over 210 million DUSK is staked. APR is sitting around 22-23%. Hundreds of provisioners are online. On the surface it looks clean and strong.
Then I noticed the locked stake and the pile of unclaimed rewards still sitting there. That sent me into the staking docs.
Here’s what I found: when your stake is already active and you decide to add more $DUSK , only 90% of the top-up starts earning right away. The other 10% goes into locked status. It stays yours, but it earns nothing and only comes free when you fully unstake and start over.
It’s not a bug. It’s built that way on purpose so people can’t keep topping up and gaming the sortition weighting.
The network basically prefers people who commit fully instead of those who keep adding little by little without thinking.
A lot of retail stakers probably have no idea this is happening. They just keep topping up, thinking the whole amount is working for them, while a quiet 10% sits frozen.
Makes you wonder how many of the registered provisioners are currently sitting on that inactive slice without realizing it.
If you’re staking or planning to add more, take two minutes and check the docs. Better to know the rules than leave free rewards on the table.
#dusk