# Pledge not meet on pool registration, how to pledge?

**URL:** <https://forum.cardano.org/t/pledge-not-meet-on-pool-registration-how-to-pledge/120669>\
**Category:** Operate a Stake Pool\
**Tags:** pledge\
**Created:** [8 August 2023 16:07 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/pledge-not-meet-on-pool-registration-how-to-pledge/120669 "2023-08-08T16:07:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![gaucho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gaucho](https://forum.cardano.org/u/gaucho)\
**Post date:** [8 August 2023 16:07 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/pledge-not-meet-on-pool-registration-how-to-pledge/120669/1 "2023-08-08T16:07:54Z")

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Hi, I register a new pool, and set the pledge amount to 200 ADA, on the payment address I only had the 500 ADA for registering the pool, the problem now is that I have the active pledge with 0 ADA .  
I didn’t find any documentation on how to add ADA to the pledge, and only have a payment and a stake address, I put ADA on the payment address but I don’t see it as active pledge on [cardanoscan.io](http://cardanoscan.io) ([GCHO Gaucho Quest - Cardanoscan](https://cardanoscan.io/pool/33c237923717e5ca20d91f4a259d333205b076ad05f6f73b8726c261)) .

The posts I find on the forum talk about a pledge address that doesn’t exist on the actual Cardano documentation, how can I add ADA to the pledge ?

Thanks in advance, I appreciate any help !!

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**Author:** ![Alexd1985](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/alexd1985/32/23759_2.png) [@Alexd1985](https://forum.cardano.org/u/Alexd1985)\
**Post date:** [8 August 2023 16:12 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/pledge-not-meet-on-pool-registration-how-to-pledge/120669/2 "2023-08-08T16:12:31Z")

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Hi,

Send 200 ADA to the payment address and should be fine… or submit another certificate with another pledge amount

The pledge will become active after 2 snapshoots but u can check on pool.pm by ticker if ur pool met the pledge

Cheers,

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**Author:** ![gaucho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gaucho](https://forum.cardano.org/u/gaucho)\
**Post date:** [8 August 2023 16:20 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/pledge-not-meet-on-pool-registration-how-to-pledge/120669/3 "2023-08-08T16:20:59Z")

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Thank you Alex, I will do that and update !!!

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**Author:** ![gaucho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gaucho](https://forum.cardano.org/u/gaucho)\
**Post date:** [14 August 2023 03:23 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/pledge-not-meet-on-pool-registration-how-to-pledge/120669/4 "2023-08-14T03:23:14Z")

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For others suffering a similar problem, the problem I had was that I followed the tutorial on [https://developers.cardano.org/docs/operate-a-stake-pool/generating-wallet-keys](https://developers.cardano.org/docs/operate-a-stake-pool/generating-wallet-keys) that says that the procedure to make the payment account is:

```auto
cardano-cli address build \   
   --payment-verification-key-file payment.vkey \    
   --out-file payment.addr \    
   --mainnet

```

But that makes an ordinary payment address, I deposit my pledge there but I wasn’t showing.

Then I follow the step on [Setting Up Payment and Stake Keys - CoinCashew](https://www.coincashew.com/coins/overview-ada/guide-how-to-build-a-haskell-stakepool-node/part-iii-operation/setting-up-payment-and-stake-keys) than says that the payment address is made with the following command:

```auto
cardano-cli address build \
    --payment-verification-key-file payment.vkey \
    --stake-verification-key-file stake.vkey \
    --out-file payment.addr \
    --mainnet

```

The first command doesn’t have **–stake-verification-key-file stake.vkey**

Since it uses the same stake.vkey and payment.vkey that I made when registered the pool, I looks like it worked, so I transferred my pledge from the first address to the new, and now I see the pledge reflected on cardanoscan

PD: The new address is longer than the old