DUSK ISN'T FAILING, IT'S BRITTLE
The system looks professional. Clean. Predictable. That's the problem. Dusk Foundation's committee-based PoS is too aligned. Everyone uses the same stack, same defaults, same upgrade windows.
This isn't maturity, it's correlated behavior. A small edge condition, a dependency hiccup, a network partition, and the committee reacts in sync. Protective actions triggered simultaneously. Throttles applied in the same direction.
The chain still looks healthy. Finality lands. But the system is testing shared assumptions, not validator competence. Incentives compress toward sameness. Uniform is legible. Uniform is easy to approve.
Deterministic finality is deceptive. It doesn't show how close the committee came to a single shared mistake. Dusk needs validators uncorrelated enough to survive blind spots. Professionalism defined as identical behavior pushes tail risk into synchronized decision-making.
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