2026-01-12 14:24:06

Any major public blockchain knows one principle—no matter how solid the technical framework is, without the support of developers and user communities, it's all for nothing. After laying a strong technical foundation, Dusk Network is now launching a series of ecosystem growth initiatives. The latest move is the CreatorPad creator program in partnership with a leading exchange, and this is no small feat.

How impressive is this program? The prize pool exceeds 3 million $DUSK. The participation threshold isn't high—creating content, helping build the community, testing applications within the ecosystem—completing these tasks earns points and rewards. It may look like "throwing money around," but the logic runs deeper. Dusk aims to attract external creators and users through these incentives, allowing them to gradually understand what privacy and compliance technologies can do. This shifts the focus from mere marketing to a user-driven ecosystem co-creation.

Within the ecosystem, efforts are also underway. The native platform Sozu has built a staking and mining mechanism, with a single pool offering a reward quota of 500,000 $DUSK. This design is clever—token holders who stake not only earn rewards but also become network maintainers, aligning interests.

With Dusk's toolchain continuously improving and the incentives in tokens having practical use cases, the entire flywheel is truly starting to spin. From technical support to user incentives and application ecosystem, the coordinated interaction of these three layers is the growth engine DUSK aims for.

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GasFeePhobia

· 6h ago

3 million DUSK tokens poured in, this move is indeed aggressive. Let's see if it can truly retain users. --- Giving away tokens is easy, retaining people is hard. Whether this combined approach has subsequent support is the key. --- The staking and mining design is quite good; aligning interests can indeed make people care more about the ecosystem's survival. --- Another "ecosystem flywheel" narrative. Why does it feel like every public chain is telling the same story? --- Packaging token giveaways as "user-driven co-creation"—the marketing tactic is still the same old routine. --- The reward for the 500,000 pool depends on whether there are real scenarios to absorb this token flow later on. --- The positioning of privacy + compliance is interesting, but I don't know if the market will buy it. --- Improving the toolchain is a real challenge; no matter how many incentives there are, if the tools aren't useful, it's all pointless.

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NFTPessimist

· 8h ago

3 million DUSK tokens are poured in just to run this logic, but whether it can truly turn into real transactions depends on whether users buy in or not. --- Both staking mining and creator incentives—I'm just worried that in the end, it's still the old trick of harvesting韭菜. --- It's called ecosystem co-construction in a nice way; frankly, it's just using money to boost popularity. With so many privacy public chains in this track, why is Dusk the winner? --- What is the yield rate of the 50,000 DUSK pool on Sozu? That’s the real focus, right? --- No matter how well the toolchain is built, without real application scenarios, everything is pointless. --- It looks like "throwing money around," but the logic is deeper—I've heard this many times before, and every time I end up losing money.

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DaoResearcher

· 8h ago

From the perspective of Token Economics, the incentive design of 3.5 million DUSK is essentially aimed at solving the Bootstrapping Problem—according to the white paper, Dusk's proposition is very clear: Network value = f( number of developers, user activity), and the incentive mechanism is to forcibly increase these two variables. It is worth noting that Sozu's staking mining mechanism introduces interest binding, which is a classic incentive-compatible design in DAO governance. If the assumptions hold, it can significantly reduce the risk of sybil attacks.

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wrekt_but_learning

· 8h ago

3 million DUSK invested, this wave is truly serious about building the ecosystem --- Staking mining + creator program, a dual approach played very skillfully --- Honestly, it still depends on the community to get it started; pouring in money is just the beginning --- Can privacy public chains really break through the circle? That’s the real question --- Improve the toolchain first and then add incentives; I believe in this logic --- 3 million sounds like a lot, but how much can each participant actually get? --- The wheel only turns if it keeps spinning; it’s still early days --- The Sozu staking mechanism is indeed interesting; it keeps the holders locked in

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