When it comes to staking yields, it's easy to be dazzled by the attractive annualized percentage. Let me lay out all of Sozu's cards for you to consider whether it's worth it.

The current annualized rate is approximately 29.87%. It sounds aggressive, but there's a 0.25% fee to enter, and you also need to give the platform a 10% cut from your earnings. The staking threshold starts at 1000 DUSK, with a lock-up period of 4320 blocks (about two epochs). Good news is, there are no unstaking penalties. Looking at on-chain data, each block rewards an average of 17 DUSK—these are hard constraints, and the yield ceiling is right here.

How to interpret this 29.87%? Essentially, it's about consolidating dispersed rights across different locations and using automatic re-investment to boost efficiency. At the same time, fee design filters out yield farmers and high-frequency arbitrage traders. In plain terms, this isn't a yield that appears out of nowhere; it's the net income after revitalizing low-efficiency rights.

There's also a deeper design—time dimension. The 4320-block maturity period makes short-term arbitrage mathematically unfeasible. And what about the 10% cut? It’s essentially subsidizing long-term participants, automatically providing stable staking rewards to those who hold steadily, while discouraging repeated churn. Even more clever, there's an early adopter program starting from early January, distributing a small amount of DUSK daily over the next six months, totaling 500,000 tokens. It adds a progressive airdrop line on top of the base yield. Small stakers are actually more favored because this 500,000 distribution spread over the entire cycle can effectively offset the one-time entry fee.

Finally, a reminder—don't be fooled by a single annualized number. What truly matters is the net amount received and the compounding cycle, not just a snapshot of the annual percentage from a single day.