I'm noticed something interesting poking around @Dusk on-chain data last night. Block 4,314,618 in epoch 1998 caught my eye. Ran the numbers through Dusk's native consensus parameters and here's the verified breakdown. Base block reward came in at 149,389 DUSK, with another 3,142 DUSK collected from gas fees.
The network permanently burned 22,163 DUSK from that window leaving net distributed rewards at 130,368 DUSK. Just to clarify, that net distributed amount doesn't go entirely to validators. Under Dusk's actual rules, up to 80% goes to block generators whil the remaining 20% gets split among validation committees, ratification committees, and treasury.
So if anyone's running their own calculations, make sure you're not treating that 130,368 as pure validator income. There were also 56 failed transactions that day, nothing majoR volume-wise but worth noting since those never appear in the official presentations.
The math checks out cleanly in my mind. Burned DUSK equals base reward plus gas fees minus net distributad rewards, which gives us 22,163 = (149,389 + 3,142) - 130,368
The burn triggers when block generators don't fully claim their extra 10% bonus credits or through execution fee deductions under the gas mechanism. So that roughly 15% burn rate isn't some temporAry glitch, it's structural.
I checked half a dozen other epochs and the ratio stayed fairly consistent. Makes me wonder if this is hardcoded into the consensus layer or if it adjusts based on staking participation rates. Haven't dug into the codebase yet to confirm.
I'm curious if anyone else has tracked this burn rat over longer periods. Does it stay stable or does it shift with staking behavior? If that 15% drain is structural, the actual circulating supply could end up looking pretty different from the projection charts. Anyone have insights on this?