DeDust DUST

Before 21 October 2024 the token was called Scaleton, with the ticker SCALE. DeDust's docs now describe it as $DUST (ex. $SCALE), and CoinGecko notes that Scaleton has rebranded to DeDust. The docs still say the development share funds DeDust.io and other Scaleton products. Under the old name, the crypto exchange BingX announced a SCALE/USDT spot pair, set to open on 4 July 2024.

DeDust renamed the token from $SCALE to $DUST on 21 October 2024 to make it more recognisable and tie it more closely to its exchange. According to the team's announcement, long ago they had planned to call the exchange Scaleton before settling on DeDust, and that caused confusion around the SCALE name. The change was a rebrand, not a migration. The contract address and on-chain data stayed the same, and holders did not need to do anything. The announcement went out on DeDust's Telegram channel and X account, and the docs record the same date. In the same post the team said it would ask analytics platforms to update how the token is displayed.

According to DeDust's docs, the initial supply was 21,000,000 tokens. The split was 4,313,384.9 (20.54%) burned, 5,463,615.1 (26.02%) on the market, 548,000 (2.61%) for marketing, 1,225,000 (5.83%) for development, 4,200,000 (20%) for the core team and 5,250,000 (25%) for an ecosystem fund. The docs set out what each share is for: - marketing, to grow the user base; - development, to fund DeDust.io and other Scaleton products; - the core team share, for staking and team rewards; - the ecosystem fund, for acquisitions and grants. By the docs' figures, about 16.7 million tokens remain after the burn, which roughly matches the 17 million shown on ton.app. The docs also say contract ownership has been revoked, so no new tokens will be issued.

Staking on DeDust.io is open only to DUST, which the docs call the platform's native token. DUST staking launched on 2 May 2024 and is funded by DeDust protocol fees. Of the trading fee charged in DeDust pools, 80% goes to liquidity providers as their earnings. The other 20% is converted into DUST and paid out to stakers. The docs note that the exact split depends on the pool type. Staking rewards appear daily.

DeDust.io presents itself as the central DeFi hub for TON users. On it, people can swap tokens, provide liquidity to earn a share of trading fees, create pools and launch trading for a new token. The protocol includes the DeDust v2 DEX contracts, which support multi-hop swaps, stable-swap pairs and boosted pools. It also has a Router that builds routes across liquidity pools throughout the TON ecosystem, not only DeDust's own. DeDust publishes a public DeDust Protocol 2.0 SDK on GitHub. Besides the website and its mirror, the docs name the Telegram Mini App @dedustBot as an official way in. The docs also say help is only given in public community chats, with no private support service.

In September 2024 Tonstakers announced a liquidity rewards programme that, according to Blockchain Reporter, the TON Foundation supported with 5 million of the network's native coin, now called Gram. The rewards initially went to liquidity pools on DeDust and STON.fi that paired USDt with Gram, with tsTON and with stTON. The DeDust team also built what the docs call the first trading terminal on TON. The docs describe it as a separate product with its own interface and documentation. On its Telegram channel, DeDust announced a Counter-Strike 1.6 server launched together with Tonstarter.