Went back to read this again today. Dusk's networking layer stopped me this time. Kadcast is framed as an improvement over Gossip and LibP2P because it does not broadcast to every neighboring node, instead it uses the Kademlia DHT structure and XOR distance metrics to route data along specific paths... the logic made sense on its own, but then the numbers attached to it made me pause. A 25 to 50 percent reduction in bandwidth usage is cited from a referenced study, and a 10 to 30 percent drop in stale block rates is claimed for networks with faster block times, similar to Ethereum's setup. The question that came to mind is whether these figures were actually measured on Dusk's own mainnet, or borrowed from unrelated research and applied here as a general expectation. A protocol's theoretical efficiency and its real performance under thousands of nodes, churn, and adversarial conditions are two different things entirely 🧩 What feels more important to me is that structured routing inherently trades some unpredictability for efficiency, and in a privacy-focused chain like DUSK, that tradeoff deserves more explanation than the documentation currently gives, especially around how much node identity gets exposed during consensus message propagation 🔍 Claiming efficiency is easy, but confirming that claim holds under real network conditions is the actual work, and that is the part I still want to dig into.
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