Dusk Network, a blockchain-based distributed ledger protocol secured via a novel Proof-of-Stake-based consensus mechanism, en- abling permission-less participation in the process of state transition execution, validation and addition to the global state while simultaneously providing strong finality guarantees for the said state transitions. The protocol is built to pre-serve privacy when transacting with the native protocol asset called DUSK and
with native support of zero-knowledge proof-related primitives on the gener-alized compute layer. Dusk Network protocol is conceptually split into two non-overlapping layers: native protocol asset (i.e. DUSK) and general compute layer. Though both share the same state space, DUSK can be conceptualized as a separate layer due to the numerous privileges the asset retains within the Dusk Network protocol, such as being a sole asset permitted to be utilized formstaking and for computational cost reimbursement for transaction execution
costs as well as the contract accommodating DUSK-related logic, eponymously called DUSK Contract, being the singular entry point to state transition initia-tion. expands on the token economics of DUSK and the Dusk Network protocol economic model as a whole.