I figured this CreatorPad task on secure market settlement pipelines with Dusk technology would start with a quick doc scan and end at some confirmation of understanding, maybe a quiz or submit button after exploring the components. I expected a guided tutorial, like step-by-step code snippets to simulate a pipeline.


I begin by clicking the task link in CreatorPad, which redirects to the Dusk docs overview page. I scroll to the "Core Components" section and read about DuskDS as the settlement layer, noting how it handles finality through Succinct Attestation consensus with its three-round process: propose, validate, ratify. The page loads quickly, but I pause to expand the collapsible on transaction models, seeing Phoenix for shielded transfers and Moonlight for public ones, both managed by the Transfer Contract with gas paid in DUSK. Next, I navigate to the "Developer" tab and select "Build on Dusk," where it recommends deploying on DuskEVM using Hardhat; I copy the testnet RPC endpoint https://rpc.testnet.evm.dusk.network and note the chain ID 323 for wallet setup. I open my local terminal, install Hardhat via npm—wait, I already have it—and initialize a project, adding the Dusk testnet config with gas price at 0.01 gwei as suggested in the network access subsection. Then I compile a simple Solidity contract for asset transfer, mimicking a settlement step, and deploy it; the transaction hash shows up after a 5-second delay in the console, confirmed on the Blockscout explorer linked in the docs, where I verify the contract by uploading the source code and selecting compiler version 0.8.19 with 200 optimizer runs.


What disrupts my flow is rereading the tooltip on the Stake Contract in the genesis contracts part— it mentions minimum stake of 1000 DUSK for provisioners, but I'm not sure if that's required for testnet deployment, so I search the page for "testnet stake" and find nothing, making me hesitate before hitting deploy, wondering if it auto-adjusts or if I'd hit a rejection.


The deployment confirms with a green check in Blockscout, but that lingering minimum stake detail sticks, like maybe it only applies to mainnet but could've flagged an error earlier
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