Security
Holding your ADA coins in your own wallet gives
you direct ownership. This is a step in the right
direction. But what about delegating? Unlike
other blockchains, on Cardano your coins never
leave your wallet, nor are they locked for the
duration of the delegation. You can freely
transfer, spend and change the delegation at any
time. Your delegation simply means you entrust us
with your voting power, which raises our chance
to mint new blocks and earn rewards that we share
with you. In other words, you can give us a
chance to earn your trust totally risk-free. In
turn, we use reliable hardware and secure links
based on VPN port forwarding to secure your
rewards by delivering a high service uptime and
anonymized, encrypted network traffic that
minimizes any attack exposure. By supporting us,
you enfoce decentralization!
Balance
We are a small pool operator and have pleged to
remain so by joining the Cardano Single Pool
Alliance, which builds a more diverse and transparent network.
Why does this matter? Big players can afford to run a
large number of pools, which essentially centralizes
the voting power into their hands, which makes it
easier to influence how new blocks are minted on
the blockchain. Furthermore, many big players are
centralized exchanges that take a large share of
the rewards but offer a small cut to their clients.
By staking with us, you discourage them to take
advantage of others. We have always applied a small
1% fee and pledge to keep applying the same fee in
the future. We are not offering 0% fee promotions to
attract a large number of delegations only to hike the fee
later. By supporting us, you bring more
balance and stability to the Cardano community!
Sustainability
We strive to be highly energy-efficient
to dispell the myth that blockchains are bad
for the environment. To this end, we run
our pool on modern embedded hardware (RK3588
with 8x ARM cores and NVMe 3.0 supporting
2~GB/s I/O throughput) that draws less than
20W on the average for two relays and a block
producer. This is a challening because the
cardano node (core component to run
the pool) is pre-build for x86 architectures.
We always compile from source and fine-tune
the code for ARM achitectures (including
the Haskell garbage collector). Furthermore,
we contribute open-source software to the
Cardano community, both through the official
developer portal (Cardano Light Tools) and
by contributing to larger efforts (Guild Operators).
Feel free to visit us on Github.
By supporting us, you contribute to making
Cardano more environmentally friendly!
