Announcing the stake pools chosen for January 2023

Hello :wave:

Today we completed the redelegation of the Cardano Foundation Wallets. It has been one year since the new delegation strategy to support the Architects of the Future has been implemented.

This round, we tried to reduce the complexity of the application form and removed many questions that previously had to be answered. That led to a significant increase in applications compared to the previous round.

A brief overview of the statistics in this round:

  • We received 267 valid applications.
  • We evaluated them manually and checked all the information they provided. We found builder tools, open-source projects, closed-source projects, many pull requests, some CIP, educational content, whole communities around projects, and many other contributions and support to the growth of the Cardano Community. We appreciate what these pools are doing and would like to give these 123 pools honorable mentions here. (see list below)
  • We have identified 51 of them as outstanding contributions. See the list below. (note: pools that we would oversaturate have already been deducted here)
  • We did a random draw and delegated to 45 pools. Visit pool.pm to get a real-time representation of the delegated wallets.

Congrats to everyone! And thank you for taking part, even if you did not make one of the lists this time. We will open a new application form in March to apply for the next round.

To the 123 pools receiving honorable mentions in this round, please keep up excellent good work and support of the growth of the Cardano Community:

Ticker Ticker Ticker Ticker Ticker
1COMM 21ADA 46S 4GOOD 501C3
A3C AAATO ACI ADMON AGC
AGUA ALKUL ALLI ALTZ AMOON
ANET ARARE ARRK ASN ASPEN
ATM BAK BBHMM BKIND BLESS
BRAZL BUILD C3ETH CARDS CBH
CHEF CHG CHIL CIEL CLYDE
CO2P COINZ CRYL DDOS DEGAS
ECP EEL EPOCH EUSKL FALCO
FIKA FLUID FPOOL GAIA GNP1
GOMA GRANA GRC1 HEART HIPPO
HONEY HOTEL HYPE ITZA JUST
KARMA KNGHT KTOP LACE LAMP
LEAD LOXE MALU MDS MNSTR
MONKY NANI NINJZ NOVA ONE1
OYSTR OZZY PBDOT PIADA PRIDE
PRO PSB QUEST RABIT RCADA
RDLRT RENEW RIOT SAGAN SALT
SAMON SANTO SDG13 SEAL SHARE
SHIFT SNAKE SOLPI SPIDR SPRO
SRN STACA STLL STOIC T2H
TAB TAVN TCHP TECH TOPO⚡
TURK VEGAS VILAI VLHLA VROOM
WADA WELL WHITE WISE WYAM
XYZ YOADA YOON YORK

The shortlist of 51 pools in this round:

Ticker Ticker Ticker
0AAAA 247 4WARD
AAA ADA ADACT
ADRIA AIM ANCO
APEX ARRA BALNC
BIO BIRD BRAVE
BREW BRLN CAN1
CENT CHRTY COSD
DEV EASY1 EU01
EVT FRADA GMBL
HAZEL HERO HODLR
JNGL JUNO LIDO
LOGIC LOVE MONAD
NOMAD NUTS OTG
PHRCK QADAO QCPOL
QXT RDLRT SAKE
SHARP SMAUG SNSKY
STAT SWAG SWARM

The 45 pools that were randomly drawn:

Ticker Ticker Ticker
0aaaa 247 4WARD
ADA ADACT ADRIA
AIM ANCO APEX
ARRA BALNC bio
BIRD BRAVE BREW
BRLN CAN1 CENT
CHRTY COSD DEV
EASY1 EU01 EVT
GMBL HAZEL HERO
JNGL JUNO LIDO
LOGIC LOVE MONAD
NOMAD NUTS OTG
QADAO QCPOL QXT
SAKE SHARP SMAUG
STAT SWAG SWARM

If you are interested in receiving notifications about new delegation rounds and other related information, please let us know your ticker and email address: https://cardanocommunity.typeform.com/cf-delegation

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Congrats to the winning pools :clap:

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Congrats to all the winners…

We are DDOS pool, happy to be honored but hope we can get deledated next time!

Keep building and promote Cardano to Chinese speakers, you can check:

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congrats everyone

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Congratz everyone

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Congratulations to everyone that got picked for the new round of CF delegation, you all deserve it!!

For those of us who didnt get picked… lets keep working hard and try again on the next one!!

Keep your head up and smile :blush:

Together we can all make great things happen! :pray:

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Congra to everyone :slight_smile:
so great pools in the list with amazing Operators.

continue the great work and dont forget to full the nodes with power…
blocks are coming :slight_smile:
enjoy decentralization
TTS17

think before you print

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Thanks for the honourable mention! We hope to make it to the shortlist next time! Congrats to all those that received the delegation.

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Congratulations to all the pools who received the delegation, and to all the pools who made it on the short list and on the list of honorable mentions!

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Always appreciate your optimism Chef and couldn’t agree more! Keep up the great work everybody!

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Congratulations to the selected pools! Please consider joining the CNC Ala ISPO: it’s the world’s first impact staking ISPO, and also the first proof that decentralized communities can solve what centralized governments couldn’t by leveraging the power of the PoS consensus. We are planting 100k trees in Madagascar to offset Cardano’s carbon emissions! :seedling: :earth_africa:

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Congratulations to everyone selected for the incredible support the Cardano Foundation provides to stake pool operators. Thanks for building and supporting the Cardano ecosystem!

I definitely second Vito’s comment - with the support you’ve gotten, it would be amazing to have you with us in the CNC Ala ISPO. Participating pools are making a difference by enabling permaculture reforestation and educating people in Madagascar about Cardano.

Join us in Discord:
https://discord.gg/RukycbycUQ

and learn more about the project:
https://climateneutralcardano.org/cnc-ala-ispo/

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Congratulations to all the selected pools :slight_smile:

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Congratulations :tada::clap:

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Congratulations to Choosen StakePools for this round!!! :tada: :tada: :tada:

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Congrats to all the hard workng pools that got selected! Well deserved.

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Congratulations to all these great pools! Amazing to see so much passion and activity happening in so many places. We’ll deserved!

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Congratulation to all the winning pools, a whole load of good-eggs in there!! :fire:

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A truly worthy project, and great to see some CNC Ala pools included in the CF delegation!

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Big congrats to everyone! Keep up the awesome work!

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