Registration fee refund post pool retirement

Staking & Delegation Operate a Stake Pool
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Hello All:

I’ve seen a few threads on the topic and online, but has anyone gone through the process successfully ?
I would have retired my pool in epoch 256 and from what I’ve read It takes two subsequent epochs to complete the de-registration transaction, but now in epoch 259 the refund still has not hit my node wallet.
Should I simply wait further or is there another course of action ? any feedback /guidance would be greatly appreciated.,

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Is your pool listed on the retiring pools list here: Retiring Pools | Cardano Staking
Just to confirm that the retirement worked.
If yes you get your key deposit like a reward and need to claim I think.

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Thanks, Actually on ADA as retired (Ticker BK201) so retirement went successfully, but then what is the claiming process ? I wonder if I need to retire the node wallet to trigger it…

Seems to have a small gap in documentation/process with reference to this.

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I think it should work like reward claiming: 10. Withdrawing rewards — cardano-node Documentation 1.0.0 documentation

Sorry just did it one time, and not absolutely sure anymore :wink:

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Npnp, I’ll keep looking into it and post back here if I complete successfully.

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Which address you query?

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Hey, retiring went fine, but the wallet balance does not reflect the refunded fee. From my reading the fee should be returned to the wallet automatically no ?

I would have created a node wallet using cntools

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yes - but there is a payment.addr and a stake.addr
So which address have you checked?

cardano-cli query stake-address-info --address <stake.addr> --mainnet
[
    {
        "address": stake1......",
        "rewardAccountBalance": 123456,
        "delegation": "pool1..."
    }
]

Can you see your reward balance with cntools?

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Hi Laplaz, thanks! I’ll check and post back, have to leave for a bit now…

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Also there is an option in cntools to Withdraw Rewards - since the deposit can be found as reward on the stake/rewards address

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Hi Laplaz, this was it, the refund was indeed under rewards in cntools, so just a noob mistake on my part :wink: so the de-registration of my pool seems to have gone smoothly. Thanks guys!

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thanks for confirmation - consider mark one of the answer as solution to indicate no need more attention

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Indeed, and done. I hope this thread helps others, it was in cntools all along…

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