As of today our cluster is running on latest cardano-node vresion! We also increased the pledge to 50k to show our long-term commitment. Thank you for staking with us!
Long time no hear! We are still up and running smoothly. We have been very busy with Cardano development, most notably with our Vending Machine project. We are also completely recreating our testnet pool, since old testnet is being decommissioned. These are long tedious tasks that take a lot of time, but don't worry, we still care of our mission as well. There are some plans to do some more donations soon to various animal sanctuaries.
We also upgraded our pool to 1.35.3 - we are ready for upcoming hard fork.
We just launched Vending Machine - a new platform for single pools allowing easy reward distribution to pool delegates. We released it a bit earlier than planned, due to very bad luck we are facing in block predictions. As you probably already know, our pool was predicted with 0 blocks two times already consecutively. As a compensation to our delegators we decided to give 1.3ADA, 1M HOSKY and 1M BabySeal to each delegator who has at least 200ADA in their wallets, delegators who have less than that got 1M BabySeal tokens only.
Please visit vending machine to withdraw this reward! See tokens for more information about vending machine!
Hello, first the bad news - we have two consecutive epochs where we got predicted with 0 blocks. That is absolutely terrible luck, but we aren't giving up. We are working on a new project for some time, code-named vending machine, which is supposed to help exactly with this kind of problems and to make our pool and other allied single pools much more attractive. We plan to deploy this tool to mainnet no later than beginning of next epoch and we will split 34 ADA amongst all our delegators as compensation for our terrible luck. Huge thanks to everyone who stay with us in this very bad times!
Today we started cooperation with Hosky Inu project! Our pool is part of a giveaway and following airdrops of HI tokens. For rules of giveaway, please see this tweet
We launched a discord server - you connect by clicking this invitation link. All our delegators and anyone else is welcome!
Our pool has just increased pledge to 28k! We are also working on some additional projects to improve the staking experience with us, details will follow later! Thank you for staking with us!
Hello, we successfully patched our testnet cluster to latest version. Now we will be testing it for couple of days and if there are no issues, we will upgrade on mainnet as well. Thank you for staking with us!
SundaeSwap informed us that the community vote will be going live tomorrow at the beginning of Epoch 302 (November 11, Thursday at 21:45:00 UTC). The voting takes place here https://iso.sundaeswap.finance/. You can support our pool as easily as sending a transaction of 2.169ADA to your own wallet! Big thanks to everyone who votes for us!!
Hi all, we applied for the ongoing SudaeSwap ISO as a potential ISO pool and Scooper validator! SundaeSwap is one of most expected DEX projects on Cardano blockchain, that many people are looking forward to, and success of their project would be a significant milestone for Cardano. So let's hope we will be lucky and get picked ;) We are confident that our stable community pool and experience could be helpful to SundaeSwap's success. We also increased the pledge to 26k! Thank you for staking with us!
We successfully patched our nodes on testnet and mainnet to latest version 1.30.1 and we also decided to add more to our pledge - which is now 24k ADA! Thank you all for staying with us
We finished upgrade of primary mainnet cluster to latest version after testing everything works ok on testnet. We kept the backup disaster recovery on version 1.27 and in case anything goes wrong we are ready to switchover, but so far everything is stable! That means our pool is ready for upcoming Alonzo hard fork. Thank you for staking with us!
We successfully upgraded our testnet cluster to latest version of cardano-node where we are just now conducting rigorous stability tests before deploying to mainnet
Next epoch we were predicted 4 blocks, but unfortunatelly one of them is right inside the epoch boundary window, which is hardest part of epoch to make a block due to known bugs in cardano-node. For that reason there are high chances that this one block will be missed. This was our first block predicted within epoch boundary, so hopefully we won't get many others in the future! At least not until this bug is fixed... Thanks for staying with us!
Hello everyone! Long time no hear, so here we have a little update - we are still operating perfectly without any issues. Pledge was increased again, this time to 20k and we recently made few donations using crypto transactions directly, instead of exchanging ADA to fiat currencies. These transactions are marked with Cardano icon which opens the transaction details. Thank you very much for staking with us!
In light of recent successful epochs and in order to show our ogoing commitment to the Cardano project, we increased the pledge to 18 000! Thank you all for staking with us!
Today we made our first donation made directly in crypto - with no intermediate exchange to USD, transaction of 100 ADA to The Ocean Cleanup project - we are glad that there are similar projects that are willing to accept donations directly in crypto and we are always happy to support them!
Let's start with the bad news first. Due to unfortunate incident described in this report we missed the only predicted block for epoch 270. We deeply regret this mistake and we made steps to ensure that this will never happen again in the future. This was a first block that we missed since we launched our pool and we believe it was also the last missed block.
Now for the good news: next epoch we are predicted with 5 blocks. We also decided to raise the pledge to 16k to display our long-term commitment to cardano project.
I would like to apologize once more for this issue that happened in this epoch and reassure you that we take the pool operation very seriously.
After streak of very unlucky epochs, we are slowly getting back on track, next epoch we are predicted with 3 blocks. Not great, not terrible ;) Big thanks to everyone who is still staying with us!
We were again predicted 0 blocks in next epoch, which is extremely unlikely, due to our stake, but sadly still possible. We would like to ensure you that our pool is fully operational, we made extra steps to verify all configurations, KES key validity, tried different versions of cncli, but result is consistent: 0 blocks for next epoch. We are very thankful to everyone who is staying with us, in this complicated situation.
We took advantage of zero block epoch in order to update our infrastructure, we did some rigorous test on testing cluster and decided to update all production servers!
For next epoch we have 0 blocks assigned in leader log prediction, hopefuly we will have some lucky epochs with many blocks soon, as last few epochs were extremely bellow expected numbers.
In preparation of pool upgrade, we upgraded our testnet pool first, to observe changes and track down any potential issues. If everything is running smooth, we will upgrade also mainnet servers. Please note, that we also added block prediction overview to pool overview.
This epoch we supported Gromit from Sealcentre Pieterburen of the Netherlands. Unfortunatelly, we are out of luck again - next epoch we are predicted only 1 block. Thank you for staying with us!
In order to show our commitment to the Cardano network, we decided to use all collected rewards (and something more on top :)) and increased our pledge to 15k. Also, this epoch finally looks like a lucky one, we have 5 slots predicted.
Despite we are still not outside of unlucky epoch streak (only 2 slots predicted), we still had some ADA in our treasury and so we decided to donate 32.6 (35EUR) to Fokarium Stacja Morska in Poland, Hel!
Sorry to bring sad news, but for this epoch we are again predicted low amount of blocks - only 1. It's still better than 0, but less than ideal. Hopefuly future will bring better results.
Their project is amazing - OCN is a non-governmental organisation with the primary objective to help entangled seals and other marine animals along the Namibian coast. Their work is well documented on YouTube videos, see an example below. We donated $50 (35.26₳) to their project. Thank you guys!
Luck is back and we are predicted to mint 4 blocks this epoch! Thank you for staking with us
It may have seemed to some, that our pool is blessed with extreme luck as we were minting one block after another - this epoch we did all 3 predicted blocks! But alas, our pool is not that special, we are back to the ground with prediction of 0 blocks. But don't worry, we have high hopes that next epochs, situation is going to be much better, thanks to all our new amazing delegators! Thank you so much for staying with us!
All production servers were updated to latest version in a fashion that ensured we didn't miss a single block.
Today, we donated another 10% of our last pool reward as a gift to zoo Liberec in Czechia to support their Sea Lions
New version of cardano-node was released by IOHK recently and we have already deployed it to our testnet pool, where we are checking for potential issues. It's our commitment to provide rock-solid stable pool for our delegators, so we want to make sure that everything is working well, before we push this version to production nodes!
