#dusk $DUSK @Dusk
I noticed a mismatch that took a bit of digging to actually pin down. Dusk Network's @Dusk has stated that over 30% of $DUSK supply is currently staked, which on a circulating supply of roughly 580 to 590 million DUSK works out to well over 170 million tokens locked into staking. #Dusk's own live explorer, though, shows only 206 active provisioners securing consensus, out of about 270 registered nodes total. Each provisioner needs a minimum of 1000 DUSK and 24/7 uptime to participate, per Dusk's operator docs, so even generously assuming every active node ran the smallest possible stake, that only accounts for a couple hundred thousand DUSK, nowhere close to the 170 million actually staked. The rest has to be sitting behind delegation, which lines up with why Dusk built Hyperstaking, a stake abstraction feature letting smart contracts and pools stake on users' behalf so people can earn rewards without operating a node themselves. This is my read connecting the two data points, not something either source states directly, but the math is hard to explain otherwise. It means network security is currently concentrated in a few hundred hands, even while participation looks broad on paper, and I'm not sure yet whether that's a temporary bootstrapping phase or the shape the network settles into long term.
I noticed a mismatch that took a bit of digging to actually pin down. Dusk Network's @Dusk has stated that over 30% of $DUSK supply is currently staked, which on a circulating supply of roughly 580 to 590 million DUSK works out to well over 170 million tokens locked into staking. #Dusk's own live explorer, though, shows only 206 active provisioners securing consensus, out of about 270 registered nodes total. Each provisioner needs a minimum of 1000 DUSK and 24/7 uptime to participate, per Dusk's operator docs, so even generously assuming every active node ran the smallest possible stake, that only accounts for a couple hundred thousand DUSK, nowhere close to the 170 million actually staked. The rest has to be sitting behind delegation, which lines up with why Dusk built Hyperstaking, a stake abstraction feature letting smart contracts and pools stake on users' behalf so people can earn rewards without operating a node themselves. This is my read connecting the two data points, not something either source states directly, but the math is hard to explain otherwise. It means network security is currently concentrated in a few hundred hands, even while participation looks broad on paper, and I'm not sure yet whether that's a temporary bootstrapping phase or the shape the network settles into long term.