Questions tagged [staking]
Delegating ADA to a stake pool to earn rewards
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What do I need to run a stake pool?
I would like to run a stake pool, but don't know if I am capable to do this. What do I need for that?
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Are there safeguards preventing big centralised exchanges like Binance and Kraken from having too much power in projects like Catalyst?
Kraken recently announced it would let its users stake Ada on their account.
However, since Kraken owns this ADA, I understand this means it could have the voting power of all its users combined on ...
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What is the expected ROA (Return of ADA) after all coins are minted?
After all coins are minted as far as I know the rewards will come from the transactions fees. At the moment we have 4.5 to 6.0% annual return of staked ADAs. When and how this will change after we ...
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Where can I find design and documentation resources on Plutus Staking smartcontracts?
When I was exploring haddock of Plutus I have found that Plutus script can have Rewarding ScriptPurpose:
data ScriptPurpose
= Minting CurrencySymbol
| Spending TxOutRef
| Rewarding ...
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How does one decide what is the best stake pool to delegate to?
I'm ready to delegate to a pool. I know the easiest options are to do so using either Daedalus or Yoroi. But, how do I choose which pool to stake to and does it really matter?
I found this post on ...
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Why is PoS much faster than PoW?
My understanding of the topic is this:
Proof-of-Work
Miners compete with their hashrate for the right to publish a block.
Proof-of-Stake
Validators are randomly elected to validate a block.
Why is ...
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What is an Initial Stake-pool Offering (ISO)?
The decentralized exchange Sundaeswap is planning an initial stake pool offering (ISO) on Cardano.
How does it work and what are the differences/advantages over an ICO?
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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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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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Why are staking rewards still coming to my Daedalus wallet when I moved the funds to a hardware wallet?
I recently moved my funds from a Daedalus Wallet that was receiving staking rewards around 18 days ago to a Ledger for cold storage.
My staking rewards are still being sent to my previous wallet, is ...
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Will I receive rewards for all epochs when I switch my stake pool?
I am currently delegating my ADA to stake pool A. I want to switch to stake pool B. What exactly happens with my rewards when I do this?
Will there be an interruption in the reward payout or will I ...
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What are the pros and cons of Cardano's liquid staking over other protocols that use a bonded staking model?
As some background, Cardano has a "liquid" staking model, which means that stake is never locked when it is being delegated. Other, "bonded" staking models require a locking period ...
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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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Is there any risk in sharing my rewards address?
I want to test ẗhe Maladex Rewards calculator but they ask me to enter my rewards address. Is there any conceivable risk in doing so?
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How will dapps handle cardano inflation from staking rewards?
Let's say I would like to lock up some ADA in a smart contract for about 3 months. How will this compete with ~5% APR from staking rewards? Do all dApps need to provide a minimum ~5% APR just to keep ...
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