# Next steps in setting up stake pool

**URL:** <https://forum.cardano.org/t/next-steps-in-setting-up-stake-pool/52280>\
**Category:** Setup a Stake Pool\
**Created:** [7 March 2021 04:20 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/next-steps-in-setting-up-stake-pool/52280 "2021-03-07T04:20:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_collins](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/john_collins/32/29119_2.png) [@John\_collins](https://forum.cardano.org/u/John_collins)\
**Post date:** [7 March 2021 04:20 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/next-steps-in-setting-up-stake-pool/52280/1 "2021-03-07T04:20:33Z")

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Hello fellow crypto travelers,

I’m wondering about next steps for setting up my Cardano node. I currently have my Producer running and one of the relays (the other relay is taking several days to sync) I have a wallet setup on my producer and I have it set as both the delegating wallet and the rewards wallet. I have my cold keys password protected and stored in cold storage. I have my wallet encrypted and am using cntools as the means of doing this. I have the pool created and registered and have my metadata here:

> <https://github.com/johncollinsgit/a/blob/main/a.json>

I’ve made some changes to the pool and metadata to make sure I had it where I wanted and so the details on pooltool are not correct.

On [adapools.org](http://adapools.org) there is no name or ticker showing up so I can’t claim it with my [adapools.org](http://adapools.org) account.

What are some of the next steps I should be thinking about in this venture? Thanks in advance!

- John