Questions tagged [staking]
Delegating ADA to a stake pool to earn rewards
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Why do Daedalus and Yoroi not support multi account delegation?
I am not programmer, but I am interested in development from user point of view.
I was looking for a way how to delegate to different pools from a single wallet and Adalite was the only wallet which ...
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How is it possible to know how many blocks a pool will mint in the next epoch?
I just saw this tweet: https://twitter.com/SmaugPool/status/1428010540711006218
Next epoch (285) should be great at 109% luck with 19 leader slots
At the time the tweet was made, epoch 284 was still ...
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Is "nothing at stake" still a problem?
I read somewhere that there is no risk of forks because ADA has a built in way of deciding who gets to propose the next block if multiple stakers get selected in 1 round:
The one who rolls the lowest ...
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Are transaction fee's paid similarly to Bitcoin?
I understand the current staking rewards are a stepping stone to decentralization i.e. by incentivizing users to stake and pools to be set up to secure the Cardano blockchain with the left over Ada ...
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Staking functionality for Native Tokens?
Is it possible to have staking or reward functionalities, maybe minting, with your Native Tokens in Cardano?
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Is there any keyword to get the epoch details or stake-pool details in Plutus Smart Contract?
I am trying to write a smart contract where I can get the awards for delegators of a particular stake pool. I need to know if that is right now possible to do using Plutus, if yes, pls suggest me.
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How do I properly derive a stake key from an address using Bech32?
I'm trying to get a stake address from a Shelley address in Python using this library: https://pypi.org/project/bech32/
I can convert an address from bech32 to hex without issue, but I'm getting stuck ...
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Airgapping Concerns for Block Producer Secrets
I am trying to understand the extreme caution about creating secrets for the BP node.
Is the concern about not knowing what one might lease in the cloud, or how security is in such a company, or their ...
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Question about Daedalus deposit withdrawal [duplicate]
I'm willing to reorganize my wallets but as I read over here; https://cardano.stackexchange.com/a/555/1927 this feature was "removed" (?!) from the Daedalus wallet and I know that there's an ...
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Identifying node locations by region
I want to operate stake pool nodes in underserved areas. My cloud provider automatically chooses the cheapest datacenter nearest to me. But I am willing to pay more to deploy to data centers in ...
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What are the benefits of the two accounts model?
In some answer (see there) someone explained that there are several benefits for the two accounts system (one spending account and one reward account). What are those benefits? Wouldn't it be more ...
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How is the active stake of a stake pool calculated?
This question is related to my previous question: When are the snapshots for the active stake in an epoch taken?
The active stake of a pool is used to calculate the rewards. What kind of system ...
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When are the snapshots for the active stake in an epoch taken?
A stake pool always has an "active stake" and a "live stake". "Active stake" refers to the amount of ADA that is used for rewards calculation in the current epoch. "...
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How are staking rewards stored?
In another question Andrew Westberg mentions that staking rewards are not stored as UTxOs to save space on the blockchain.
My question is: how exactly are those rewards associated with one's stake ...
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How are Staking rewards calculated?
I remember that initially the percentage of rewards for delegators was around 5.12% visiting Cardano Calculator. Now they are approximately 4.6083%.
How this is calculated?
Will the percentage ...
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