A merchant does not want to reprice the menu every time a token moves. Payments on a chain need a stable unit, and EmpoorioChain's is DUSD — implemented in pallet-stablecoins (runtime index 46), a native asset rather than a contract. This post is what a merchant or integrator should know about it, including what it is not.
What DUSD is
- A native stable asset with a target peg of one US dollar. Target, not guarantee: the ecosystem's own review in September 2026 removed language elsewhere that called the peg "guaranteed" and transfers "risk-free". No stable asset can promise that, and this one does not.
- Managed by the stablecoins pallet: issuance, reserves, peg logic, and the compliance hooks that regulated assets on the chain share.
- Held and moved like any native asset — in Eoonia, in the Rust and Dart SDKs, through Polkadot.js.
Gas in DUSD
The canonical tokenomics fixes a conversion so that a user holding only DUSD can still pay fees: 1 DUSD = 1.538462 DMS at the public-sale price ($0.65). A merchant integration can therefore quote everything — price, fee, refund — in one unit. The transfer fee target is about $0.001; the measured native transfer fee on the testnet is 0.000025 DMS, comfortably under it.
Fees: 80 % burned, 20 % to treasury
Every fee on the chain is split: 80 % is burned and 20 % goes to the treasury. There is no per-transfer burn on the token itself — a rule that an older design had and that was explicitly retired. The burn matters economically because the emission formula mints a fraction of the gap to the supply cap: burning widens the gap and raises future emission, so real network usage funds future security without a vote. One caveat the tokenomics document flags: the fee multiplier does not yet respond to congestion, so today the burned amount is small and fixed. That is listed as pending.
Where DUSD fits in the apps
Empoorio Eats, Manager, Riders and Square Sellers settle in fiat today. The designed on-chain path prices in DUSD: a payment request from the app to Eoonia by deep link, settlement in DUSD through pallet-escrow, release on delivery. The unit is chosen; the checkout is not switched on.
What DUSD is not
It is not listed anywhere, not issued to the public, and not backed by any external issuer or bank. Older pages in the ecosystem named real stablecoin issuers and payment processors as partners; none of those relationships exists, and this page does not claim them. DUSD is a native pallet on a testnet, priced in a JSON file that CI enforces, waiting for its first real merchant.
Based on TOKENOMICS.json (comisiones, gas_en_dusd), TOKENOMICS_CANONICO.md §5 and PALLET_REFERENCE.md.