Retiring a Stake Pool out of eMax

Staking & Delegation Operate a Stake Pool
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Hi, I think I did something wrong, when I made the transaction with the de-registration cert I didn’t add the 500 of deposit in that transaction. I thought this would be automatically; the same about 2ADA of deregister of stake address. I was just waiting for the next epoch for pool retirement and I was waiting for the the deposit but I dont recibe it. So my question is: Can I bring back the deposit with repeting the transaction with the de-registration cert and adding the deposit founds?

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Yes, it should work but first provide the ticker please

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Are u sure that the 2 ADA will be automated added? For me It doesnt make sense. For the deposit you must to specify in the transaction and for the 2ADA it is automated

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It’s not very clear for me what u want to do but if u want to retire the pool then:

  • send the de-registration certificate and wait for the next epoch to receive the 500 ADA back as a reward
  • withdraw the rewards to payment.addr (u can find how to on councashew guide - section withdraw the rewards - CHAPTER 18.x)
  • deregister the stake address to receive back the 2ADA paid for stake registration

!!! DO NOT de-register the stake address untill u will not receive/withdraw the 500 ADA

cardano-cli stake-address deregistration-certificate \
    --stake-verification-key-file stake.vkey \
    --out-file stake.cert

And then build a transaction with this certificate. Specifically you need to increase the change amount by 2 ADA and minus the transaction.

txOut=$((${total_balance}+${keyDeposit}-${fee}))
cardano-cli transaction build-raw \
    ${tx_in} \
    --tx-out $(cat payment.addr)+${txOut} \
    --invalid-hereafter $(( ${currentSlot} + 10000)) \
    --fee ${fee} \
    --certificate-file stake.cert \
    --mainnet \
    --out-file tx.raw

Submit the transaction

  • send the funds from payment.addr to another wallet (u can find the steps on coincashew guide - send a simple transaction - CHAPTER 18.x)

Cheers,

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Thank your for providing the ticker… u can skip the step 1 the pool is already deregistered and u received the 500 ADA as a reward

Now u must to withdraw the reward then deregister the stake address then move the funds

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Ahh okay. I didn’t know that the deposit is refund as a reward…

About the order that you specify, It would be:

  1. Withdraw the rewards to my payment.addr
  2. Move the funds of the paymentstake.addr to payment.addr
  3. Deregister paymentstake.addr specifying the 2ADA (keyDeposit) on that transaction

thank u

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  • withdraw the rewards (at this step the rewards will be moved from stake.addr to payment.addr - can be spend)
  • deregister the stake address to receive back the 2ADA but first be sure that u succesfully withdrew the rewards(500ADA) - u can check on cardanoscan.io also … u should see rewards withdrawn
  • if it’s the case move the funds to another wallet (for example if this is a cli wallet (not imported) and u will want to send the ADA to a daedalus/yoroi wallet

Always test with 10 ADA for first time!thank you,