Staking offers two very practical benefits: first, long-term locking reduces the circulating supply in the market, weakening short-term selling pressure; second, users participating in staking can earn a stable annualized return (currently around 20-30%), which is attractive to long-term holders seeking steady income. More importantly, Dusk has designed staking as a user-friendly participation method—no need to understand complex operations, just lock up as required to share in the network’s growth dividends. This lowers the barrier to ecosystem participation and broadens the base of users with security guarantees.

Looking at the synergy between technology and products. The DuskDS upgrade, completed by the end of 2025, significantly improves the availability and throughput of the settlement layer; after the launch of DuskEVM, developers can write contracts using familiar Solidity, and it also includes privacy modules like Hedger, enabling “default confidentiality and on-demand auditability.” This means that when STOX phases in bringing securities from licensed exchanges like NPEX onto the chain, on-chain transactions can maintain commercial privacy while providing regulators with verifiable proof—addressing core institutional requirements. As these real assets and cross-chain traffic (via Chainlink CCIP) enter the network, on-chain operations and gas consumption will increase in tandem, further boosting the demand for DUSK usage.
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