When 4,000 DUSK Adds Only 3,600 to Active Stake
Adding more DUSK to an already-active stake sounds simple: increase the position, and the whole top-up should start working in consensus.
That is not how Dusk treats it.
Once a stake is active, a top-up is split into two states. 90% becomes active immediately, while 10% is recorded as locked stake. The locked DUSK still belongs to the staker, but it does not participate in consensus.
So if an operator adds 4,000 DUSK, the immediate result is not 4,000 DUSK of additional active stake. It is 3,600 DUSK active and 400 DUSK locked.
That changes how I would think about increasing a Dusk position.
The amount deposited and the amount that immediately becomes productive consensus capital are related, but they are not identical.
The distinction also matters when planning an exit. Dusk’s current staking documentation notes that recovering the final locked portion may require fully unstaking the remaining position. A staker expecting to scale up now and unwind only part of the position later therefore needs to track more than the headline stake balance.
On Dusk, a top-up is not merely “more tokens staked.” It is a capital-state transition: part becomes active immediately, while part remains owned but locked outside consensus.
@Dusk $DUSK #dusk
Adding more DUSK to an already-active stake sounds simple: increase the position, and the whole top-up should start working in consensus.
That is not how Dusk treats it.
Once a stake is active, a top-up is split into two states. 90% becomes active immediately, while 10% is recorded as locked stake. The locked DUSK still belongs to the staker, but it does not participate in consensus.
So if an operator adds 4,000 DUSK, the immediate result is not 4,000 DUSK of additional active stake. It is 3,600 DUSK active and 400 DUSK locked.
That changes how I would think about increasing a Dusk position.
The amount deposited and the amount that immediately becomes productive consensus capital are related, but they are not identical.
The distinction also matters when planning an exit. Dusk’s current staking documentation notes that recovering the final locked portion may require fully unstaking the remaining position. A staker expecting to scale up now and unwind only part of the position later therefore needs to track more than the headline stake balance.
On Dusk, a top-up is not merely “more tokens staked.” It is a capital-state transition: part becomes active immediately, while part remains owned but locked outside consensus.
@Dusk $DUSK #dusk