Traditional centralized custody has always been a major issue—your asset security depends on the trustworthiness of third parties, but why should you trust them? Dusk Foundation breaks through with the "Never Trust, Always Verify" approach. The core idea is simple: use cryptography to ensure that asset control always remains in your hands, and third parties have no right to touch them.

But for this system to operate normally, node verification must be reliable. How to ensure that? Dusk's answer is—staking DUSK tokens. Nodes participating in custody verification must first stake a sufficient amount of tokens. The amount staked directly determines what kind of verification they can perform, with higher requirements for core verification nodes. This way, only capable and trustworthy participants can get involved, filtering out malicious nodes.

The incentive and penalty mechanisms are designed to be quite strict: nodes that complete asset verification and transaction validation can earn DUSK rewards. But if they dare to perform false verification or leak user information? Not only do they forfeit their rewards, but their staked tokens are fully confiscated, permanently losing verification rights. Users also have a participation space—staking a small amount of DUSK tokens can upgrade their account security level, enjoying faster verification speeds and stronger risk protection.

What’s interesting about this "Staking for Access + Reward Constraints" design is that: DUSK tokens become the economic link of the entire zero-trust custody system, tying node interests to custody security. Financial institutions and users can therefore use it with confidence, and the economic incentives of the tokens fully leverage the advantages of zero-trust technology. That’s why DUSK can become a key player in Dusk’s financial-grade asset security.