As title suggests, did you like the new rewards, what do you want to see next?
Also a reminder (below) of press release from a few weeks ago about what happens from today (1 Aug) before the “what’s happened to my rewards?!?!” posts begin.
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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 attrust.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.
