Our staking pool page just went online. Would be nice if you could add it to the list - heph.io. 
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This staking pool is made by Serokell (the team is working on developing Cardano). I read your page and I don’t understand how can I get lifted fees by signing up my email ? ( I signed up already, just don’t understand how this will work)
Good question…I need to understand how much is the “tiny fee”…I signed up for updates (this is the 3rd staking pool I signed up for)…I will need to understand several things to commit to any. Some of the questions I have:
1.- How much ADA do you have in stakes?
2.- What are the fees?
3.- Where are the locations of the nodes?
4.- How much ADA per node?
5.- How often the rewards will be distributed?
I do not think it is a matter, as default AFAIK, all stakeholder’s wallets will be evenly delegated to the existing and well-known pools. It’s required during the switching phase, to be sure that more than 51% of the stakeholders are on-line, then any individual stakeholder can switch to any other pool or decide not to.
At the moment nobody knows it, but the other mining pools usually charge from 1% to 2%. So, as the base, I would say 1%, as the pool owners will have operational costs.
I do not think that’s important, as it would not affect anything. The most important thing is diversity, means nodes should be distributed evenly accross the globe and should use different infrastructures such us Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Red Hat etc. etc… If you’re a kind of patriot and you would prefer to use a Pool that’s located in your country then that’s fine.
But, pls do not forget that the tribalisms and religions (and a lot of other stuffs) are the best in one and only one thing: Split the people to us and them.
It’s a kind of speculation as it’s not been decided yet as there is some research is still ongoing relating to the incentives, but I think the following makes sense.
(a.) The total supply is ~31bn, max supply is 45m, therefore 14bn for minting.
(b.) This 14bn is said to be released in 4 years (1st ~9%, 2nd ~9%, 3rd ~6%, 4th ~4%), it’s kind of speculation, but it cannot be sustained for long, see the point (a)
(c.) Currently, there are ~1.57788*10^6 slots in a year.
(d.) So, it would depend on how the incentives are calculated, but based on the simplest calculation is around 2258ADA/slot
It’s still a kind of speculation, but the reward distribution have cost the transfer fee, so I would say it should depend on the stakeholder’s stake. Means if you have only 10K of ADA and there is a pool w/ 100m big Pool, then that pool only just has the ~0.3% of the total supply in the 1st yr. means ~14 slots/day.
And if the reward is 2000ADA then you will get only 0.01% of the daily 28000ADA means only 2.8ADA for you and the transfer fee is at least ~0.16 which is approx 5.7% of the 2.8ADA, so, I would prefer weekly or fortnightly distribution where the fee is only ~0.8% or less.
@_ilap…thanks for your response…I will assume the websites “promoting” stake pools should at some point answer some of the questions…that will (of course) wait until the “rules” for staking are clear by the Cardano team…I get more excited as we get closer to decentralization, I am sooo looking forward to the rest of the year (and next 5 years) to see where we go with this project.
Worked for IOHK! Is not, anymore
Could you please add AdaStaking.com to the list of staking pools.
We are committed to becoming one of the worlds largest, most trusted and well-respected Cardano staking pools. Sign up now.
Adam, you are doing a wonderful job maintaining this resource. Thank you.
To tell the truth, I hate marketing bullshits and also there should not be any largest pool, bet evenly distributed ones. and I hope Cardano/IOHK are working hard on that.
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Only way to have them evenly distributed is to set a specific nr of ada needed to run a pool////?
Yes, and they’re stated the following: Current benchmarks indicate that we cannot have more than around 20 core nodes, means 20 well-protected Pools, but he also mentioned in some of his videos, that they would like to have around 100 (I assume 200 is more optional means ~0.5% shares). Do not get confused w/ the relay nodes).
If you saw this, he gives some numbers - but… i would think its better to wait for official info - and start making conclusions than https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeNJoJOgMHU
Yes, I watched it when it came out, I am just trying to figure out the big picture by collecting the puzzles, but it does not mean that I am on the right path as it’s constantly changing every day, Therefore they could come up w/ a conclusion/decision which could be a complete opposite of that what we know today.
But, IMHO the evenly distributed Pools is the go as Pools are SPOF and if somebody can take over the largest one which would be just one Core, then we can be in situation what I would just call Holly Sh*t. But, if they’re evenly distributed, then it does not matter if one or two or even 10 goes down at the same time.
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In addition, there are no monetary incentives for the stakeholders to be in the largest pool, as they will receive only as much ADA as their portion, means an evenly distributed Pool will process at least ~400slots/day even they just have 0.5% shares as It’s a kind of linear function and not an exponential one like the cumulative interest. The only incentive is for the Pool’s provider as they will earn more if they are able to grow.
I meant to grow in percentages and not in numbers.
What’s the story?
No story. They are outsource team. They have contracted with IOHK to deliver Cardano SL. They have delivered Cardano SL. Contract ended. Now IOHK contracted with some other team that has engineers of different specialisation.
Afterwards Serokell said that they are big fans of Cardano themselves, and gonna support its development from community side of things (building dApps and infrastructure). I think they are great team and gonna be one of the active proposers for the future treasury and gonna receive good votes and funds to make Cardano even better.
As their token of love and appreciation for the project, they are launching the staking pool:
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Can anyone Explain to me what a staking pool does?
You delegate your stake to a staking-pool in the same way how miners delegate their hash-power to a mining-pool. Pool runs a full-node for you, and is responsible for creation of blocks, and you (optionally) receive a profit, proportional to your delegated stake.
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thank you. I sort of get it…
but this latest staking pool. https://heph.io/ seems a little fishy…
if Serokel is based out of Estonia
why is Heph’s twitter in Italy?
Serokell is an international company with employees from multiple countries.
If you have any doubts in them, I’m sure you can contact them thru information from their website: https://serokell.io/ and they will happily resolve any misunderstanding.
Serokell team was one the IOHK contractors. They done wonderful job on Cardano SL and earned great respect of the community. Next time, please try using forum-searching to find any already existing information on topics you are interested in.
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Hello! Please can you add Planet Cardano to the list. We are based in London. Our website is https://planetcardano.io/ and we are on Twitter @PlanetCardano. Many thanks!