Dusk Network (DUSK) Tokenomics, Unlock Schedule and Vesting Chart

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Dusk Network (DUSK) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule

The unlock chart above provides a clear visual overview of the Dusk Network (DUSK) token release schedule, showing when and how tokens enter circulation across investor, team, treasury, and community allocations. Understanding these tokenomics dynamics is critical for evaluating potential supply pressure, inflation impact, and market liquidity over time — key factors that can influence DUSK price performance.

Each color segment in the chart corresponds to a specific allocation group described in the Allocations section below. Underlying assumptions and data models used to reconstruct this schedule are explained in detail under Assumptions, while broader utility insights and token use cases are covered in Tokenomics & Utility.

Tokenomics & Utility

Supply and issuance

Initial supply: 500,000,000 DUSK.
Emissions: an additional 500,000,000 DUSK distributed to stakers over 36 years.
Maximum supply: 1,000,000,000 DUSK.

The project conducted a private sale in November 2018. Today, ERC‑20 and BEP‑20 representations exist for exchange access, and users can migrate to native DUSK through a burner contract as mainnet operates. (docs.dusk.network)

Fees and units

Transactions consume gas priced in LUX, where 1 DUSK equals 1,000,000,000 LUX. Collected fees are added to block rewards and redistributed by protocol rules. (docs.dusk.network)

Staking and roles

Any holder can stake to participate in consensus. Key parameters include:

Minimum stake to become a provisioner: 1,000 DUSK.
Stake maturity: 2 epochs.
Unstaking: supported without a hard lock penalty.
Slashing: “soft slashing” reduces participation/rewards for misbehavior or downtime rather than burning the staked principal. (docs.dusk.network)

Rewards and distribution

Each block’s reward combines newly emitted DUSK and the fees from included transactions. In the current setup, rewards are shared across roles and the development fund, with a performance component for block generators. Unused portions of that performance slice are burned, linking network usage to gradual token sink effects. (docs.dusk.network)

Allocation and vesting

Historic allocation included tokens for the sale, team, advisors, development, exchange liquidity, and marketing, with vesting running from 2019 through 2022. This early distribution financed the multi‑year research and build‑out of the network. (docs.dusk.network)

Utility in the network

DUSK pays for:

Transaction fees across Moonlight and Phoenix.
Deploying and calling smart contracts.
Staking and earning rewards for securing the chain.
Services within applications (for example, token issuance flows or compliance checks encoded in contracts). (dusk.network)

Assumptions

Initial allocations (Token Sale, Team, Advisors, Development, Exchange, Marketing) vest linearly from 2019-05-01 to 2022-04-30.
Official tokenomics state the vesting window (May 2019–April 2022) but do not provide a month-by-month tranche schedule for each category; linear monthly modeling is applied for charting.
PoS emissions start on 2025-01-07 and follow nine 4-year periods with r=0.5 reductions.
Mainnet first immutable block produced on 2025-01-07; tokenomics specify 9 periods of 4 years with per-block emission values; modeled as linear monthly issuance within each period.
Total emitted supply modeled as 499,970,000 DUSK over 36 years.
Sum of official per-period totals equals 499.97M; documentation elsewhere rounds to 500M; we follow the period table to preserve internal consistency of unlock sums.
Genesis_date set to 2019-05-01 for charting the TGE-era vesting.
Tokenomics specify vesting begins in May 2019 but do not provide the exact day; first day of the month chosen for monthly granularity.
Transaction fees are redistributed with block rewards but do not change total supply.
Tokenomics clarify fees are added to block rewards for distribution; these are transfers, not new issuance, so excluded as a separate allocation.
All PoS issuance (including the share routed to the Development Fund and committees) is consolidated into a single allocation.
Per instruction to consolidate network issuance; incentive shares vary by role but all originate from the same minted supply per block.

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