Stake $DOVU, Rewarded in $TRUST

7 7月 2026,

Staking campaigns start this week. A gradual release of rewards through July, and a first look at the $TRUST you have already been earning.

In Why $TRUST and not just $DOVU we explained the dual token design. $DOVU powers what happens on DOVU OS. $TRUST proves who was allowed to make it happen. This week we put that design to work.

One change to be aware of. To remove dust payments, we have added a minimum threshold of 10,000 $DOVU to be eligible for staking rewards. Tiny payouts cost more to process than they are worth to receive, and the threshold keeps the distribution clean for everyone.

Staking starts this week

From this week, tentatively Wednesday 8 July, you can stake $DOVU and earn $TRUST.

If you have staked $DOVU before, nothing about the process changes. It is the same staking you already know. The difference is what you earn, because rewards are now rewarded in $TRUST.

This is the dual token system in action. You stake the fuel, you earn the licence.

A gradual release of rewards

We are releasing rewards gradually from launch until the end of July, and we want to be upfront about why.

A key part of this first phase is monitoring how the community and the market respond. Staking behaviour, reward velocity, and how $TRUST moves once it reaches your hands. A measured release gives us real data instead of noise.

We might make adjustments after that period. That could mean changes to reward rates, pacing, or campaign structure. We would rather launch, watch, and adjust than fix everything in place before we have seen how it plays out. Every distribution is verifiable on the live supply dashboard at trust.dovu.ai, where every genesis bucket, vesting curve, and claim is recomputed from immutable contracts.

Why you will not see APY figures in July

We are temporarily removing APY rates over July.

APY needs to be based on ownership of $TRUST tokens, and with everyone starting from zero the early figures simply would not reflect reality. We want any rate we share to be sustainable and realistic, and we do not want a number on a dashboard to be read as a view of future rewards. It would not be one.

So we are treating July as a period of initialisation. As positions build and the data settles, we will revisit how and when we present rates.

You have been earning since October

Alongside this launch, we will provide more insight into the ongoing $TRUST rewards that have been earned behind the scenes since October 2025.

This retroactive tranche is based on your previous $DOVU staking state, together with positive network activity as an actor in the ecosystem, such as buying carbon credits. It will be at least 3 billion $TRUST tokens, representing 3% of supply, vesting from December 2026 and distributed as monthly airdrops over 18 months.

The vesting schedule is deliberate. It rewards the people who stay with us for the long term rather than pushing supply into the market on day one. And to be clear, this portion does not include the allocation for holding $DOVU passively, or for other network activity. Those are accounted for separately, and we will share more on them soon.

Hold on to your $TRUST

We highly recommend that you hold on to your $TRUST. Here is why.

Authority Trail demands $TRUST to be used. Every identity onboarded, every role registered, every authorisation recorded uses it. And there are only two ways to get it. Earn it through the protocol, starting with staking, or buy it on the market through the DOVU/TRUST pair. If you are earning $TRUST now, you already hold what every future participant in Authority Trail will need.

This is the point of the staking distribution. It puts $TRUST into the hands of the community so you can actually use the protocol over the next six months. You can see indicative costs on the Authority Trail economy page. We have published draft rates, with higher consequence actions such as approving a role costing more. Those figures are indicative and could be higher at launch, which is another reason to hold what you earn.

Over the next six months you will be able to use the Authority Trail system to onboard your identity, and $TRUST is your key to doing it. One of our core ecosystem goals for this period is to onboard as many individuals as possible into our decentralised authorisation network. It is a goal we have specifically allocated for.

More tranches, based on what you do

The retroactive tranche is the start, not the end. Over the next six months, additional tranches will be allocated based on the actions of community members. Staking, onboarding into Authority Trail, and taking part in the network as it grows.

Put simply, the community that builds the authority layer will be the community that owns it.

What comes next

  • This week, target 8 July: staking campaigns go live. Stake $DOVU, earn $TRUST
  • Until the end of July: gradual release of rewards while we monitor how the community and market respond. APY figures paused while positions initialise
  • End of July: we review the data and may make adjustments
  • From December 2026: the retroactive tranche, at least 3% of total supply, begins vesting as monthly airdrops over 18 months
  • Next six months: Authority Trail identity onboarding, with further tranches allocated based on the actions of the community

We are excited to see how the next six months unfolds. We are hopeful about the combination that DOVU OS and Authority Trail bring together, and we look forward to sharing more of the internal efforts we have been building.

Everything is on chain, everything is verifiable at trust.dovu.ai, and it starts this week.

DOVUについて

DOVU builds infrastructure for verifiable trust on Hedera. DOVU OS enables organisations to model, execute, and audit trusted workflows across ecological assets, supply chains, issued assets, and authority-sensitive processes. Authority Trail extends this infrastructure by recording who had the right to act, in what role, and at what point in time.

Learn more about Authority Trail at authority.dovu.ai