Question 1

What is DIAM?

Accepted Answer

DIAM is the native token of the Diamante network. It is used to pay network resource fees, participate in validator staking and on-chain governance, and may be used by protocols as collateral. It is a network utility token, not equivalent to company equity; the white paper does not describe holding DIAM as conferring dividend or redemption rights.

Question 2

How does DIAM pay fees on the network?

Accepted Answer

DIAM is used to pay for network resources consumed by transaction execution, data storage, and computation. When a user initiates a transfer or calls an application, the fee is deducted from the initiator’s DIAM balance; therefore, network usage volume and the type of resources invoked are the direct sources of DIAM’s payment use cases. The white paper uses a charge of 0.1 DIAM for one transfer as an illustrative example, rather than a fixed rate that can be directly applied to all transactions. Actual costs should follow the rules provided by the network and application when the transaction is initiated.

Question 3

How is DIAM staking related to validator selection?

Accepted Answer

DIAM staking links a validator’s eligibility to participate in network security with the tokens it has locked. Token holders participate in DPoS validator elections by staking; elected validators propose and order blocks based on the PoH-ordered transaction sequence, after which the aBFT phase completes final confirmation. The selection relationship given in the white paper is that validator i’s proposal probability P(Vi) equals its stake Si divided by the total network stake ΣSj. In other words, under a model where other conditions are equal, a higher share of total network stake implies a higher expected share of block proposals; this describes selection probability, not a guarantee of returns or number of blocks produced.

Question 4

How is DIAM used for on-chain governance?

Accepted Answer

DIAM’s on-chain governance process includes submitting proposals, token-weighted voting or delegated voting, and execution after approval. Submitting a proposal requires meeting a deposit threshold; voting rights may be delegated by holders, and proposals must also meet quorum or approval thresholds. Meeting the threshold does not mean immediate effectiveness. The white paper states that proposals go through a timelock, leaving a window for review or dispute handling before execution. This connects DIAM’s governance role not only to expressing preferences, but also to the three stages of proposal submission, voting, and delayed implementation.

Question 5

Can DIAM be used as collateral?

Accepted Answer

The white paper lists DIAM as on-chain collateral that can be locked for protocol operations, decentralized finance applications, or Layer 2 interactions. Locked DIAM provides security for a specific protocol rule; it does not mean that simply holding DIAM automatically grants borrowing, minting, or liquidity functionality. For example, the white paper uses locking DIAM to mint stablecoins or participate in liquidity pools as illustrations; whether this is actually supported, how much must be locked, liquidation conditions, and withdrawal conditions are all determined by the rules of the specific application using DIAM.

Question 6

How does Diamante’s hybrid consensus operate?

Accepted Answer

Diamante’s consensus links three stages: PoH first establishes transaction ordering through a verifiable hash chain; DPoS elects validators through staking to propose blocks; and aBFT provides final confirmation for blocks. The three respectively address ordering, proposal, and finality, rather than being different names for the same mechanism. Under the aBFT security condition described in the white paper, if the total number of validators is n, the number of Byzantine nodes must be less than ⌊n/3⌋; once a block is confirmed through aBFT, it is regarded as irreversible. This condition shows that finality depends on the fault-tolerance assumption of the validator set.

Question 7

What does Diamante’s post-quantum cryptography design mean?

Accepted Answer

The Diamante white paper sets post-quantum cryptography as the protocol’s default security foundation, listing ML-KEM for key exchange, ML-DSA for digital signatures, and optional SLH-DSA. Its objective is to protect key exchange and signature-verification stages under the assumption that quantum computing may weaken traditional public-key cryptographic systems. This design has no automatic, quantifiable transmission relationship with DIAM’s value or price; it is first and foremost a network security and protocol design feature. Users should distinguish among the design objectives stated in the white paper, the network’s actual deployment status, and the specific implementation used by their own wallet or application.

Question 8

How does Diamante’s zero-knowledge privacy layer work?

Accepted Answer

The Diamante white paper describes a native zero-knowledge proof privacy layer: users can make private asset transfers without disclosing value details and can perform private computation without exposing inputs. Validator nodes verify whether proofs are valid rather than directly reading the hidden data. The role of this mechanism is to separate verification of “whether a transaction or computation complies with the rules” from disclosure of “whether the input content is public.” Whether this capability can be used in a given wallet, application, or asset still depends on whether the relevant product has integrated and supports the feature.

Question 9

Which application execution environments does Diamante support?

Accepted Answer

The Diamante white paper describes three execution environments: EVM/zkEVM compatible with Ethereum smart contracts, WASM/DNA for resource safety, and Chaincode for enterprise sandbox logic. Transactions are routed to the corresponding execution environment, and cross-environment calls maintain state consistency through a cross-VM atomicity mechanism. Therefore, DIAM’s fee use cases cover not only simple transfers, but also the consumption of computing and storage resources in these execution environments. Whether an application can use a particular environment depends on the type of contract deployed by the developer and the network’s support status.

Question 10

What is the relationship between DIAM’s network uses and market demand?

Accepted Answer

Demand for using DIAM may arise from paying network fees, staking to participate in validator elections, governance voting, or being locked by applications as collateral. These uses may affect the circumstances in which some participants need to hold, pay, or lock DIAM, but they cannot by themselves imply that the price must rise. Price is also affected by tradable supply, market liquidity, holders’ trading behavior, actual application adoption, and overall market conditions. In particular, whether staking or collateral locking actually reduces tradable supply depends on the scale and duration of locking and the rules of the relevant application.

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