Hey Papa_Panda. 
Just wanted to provide some additional information on how budget is distributed.
The block distribution is:
Budget and Veil Labs budget are kept within multisig addresses which require 4 of 6 (department leads and founder) people to sign before funds are released. The funds that do not leave the multisig addresses are kept in basecoin which do not stake (only zerocoin veil can stake). You can verify that they are not staking by looking at the multisig addresses on the block explorer yourself:
Budget - https://explorer.veil-project.com/address/3MvD3sxedwPzGSdLnehegDfBGfxpdMevk2
Veil Labs - https://explorer.veil-project.com/address/341PYScHCbq5Y3G3orR14V1pSmhb8qamP5
I hope that this information helps alleviate some concerns about the full 50% allocation being staked as this is certainly not the case, and is a common misconception.
Just wanted to provide some additional information on how budget is distributed.The block distribution is:
- 50 goes to PoW/PoS
- 30 goes to Budget, which includes salaries and other project expenses
- 10 goes to Veil Labs, which includes R&D, separate from main Veil development
- 10 goes to Founder
Budget and Veil Labs budget are kept within multisig addresses which require 4 of 6 (department leads and founder) people to sign before funds are released. The funds that do not leave the multisig addresses are kept in basecoin which do not stake (only zerocoin veil can stake). You can verify that they are not staking by looking at the multisig addresses on the block explorer yourself:
Budget - https://explorer.veil-project.com/address/3MvD3sxedwPzGSdLnehegDfBGfxpdMevk2
Veil Labs - https://explorer.veil-project.com/address/341PYScHCbq5Y3G3orR14V1pSmhb8qamP5
I hope that this information helps alleviate some concerns about the full 50% allocation being staked as this is certainly not the case, and is a common misconception.