FRADA minted its first block :)

Hello there,

Even though it’s not big deal, I’m very proud to announce that my small pool FRADA has minted its first block this night at arround 4am. I was so excited when i saw my cncli Leaderlogs last epoch (and nervous as well, i didn’t want to miss the slot !)

Here is a screenshot from my logs on my Grafana node :

So let me do a brief introduction of my pool FRADA :slight_smile:

  • Launched on epoch 362 (12th of september 2022)
  • Pool ID : 2375efb30fae44b70c33ca4178a2ad811bbc89c81a358cd6dbf28ecd
  • 50K Pledge / 1% fees
  • 100% hosted in France, in 2 datacenters that use low CO2 footprint energy
  • 1 BP and 1 Relay behind a perimeter firewall
  • 1 hidden Relay connected to my BP through Wireguard VPN
  • 1 dedicated monitoring node (Grafana, Prom, Loki)

I launched an “early whale” incentive program as well, to try to get some delegators on board.

https://cardano-france-stakepool.org/

I’m trying to write some guides, and help on the Cardano Developper Portal Revamp documentation. I’m an IT professional (networks and cyber-security) with 15 years of experience, and got into the Crypto world, and Cardano, in 2017.

Have a great day everyone and stay safe !

Congratulations :wave: :grinning: :tada:

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Thank you :blush:

Congrats! The first one is the most difficult one :slight_smile:

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Well done, congrats :muscle:

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Thanks to the Cardano Foundation Delegation, i was able to significantly upgrade FRADA servers and Architecture, to provide the best possible performance and resilience !

Full details here :

https://cardano-france-stakepool.org/new-frada-baremetal-servers-and-new-architecture/

I’m glad to announce FRADA is now a Mithril Signer on mainnet, since epoch 478 :slight_smile:

On top of that, a new public Live Stats dashboard has been deployed.

You can check it directly on the pool website :
https://cardano-france-stakepool.org/

Or directly there :
https://mon.cardano-france-stakepool.org/public-dashboards/71e8f2c83ec44393bd366fa66403e04a