An independently operated Cardano stake pool. Two public relays, one private block producer, run on hardware I manage myself.
Fixed cost is the protocol minimum. Margin is zero — beyond the fixed cost, rewards go to delegators.
Public relay. Peers with the wider Cardano network and forwards blocks to the producer.
Second public relay on independent hosting, so the producer keeps a path to the network if either relay drops.
Never publicly reachable. Accepts connections only from the two relays; its address is not published and its firewall rejects everything else.
All three nodes run cardano-node v11.0.1. Both relays are
published on-chain — Relay 2 by a static IP, Relay 1 by a
dynamic-DNS hostname that updates automatically if its address changes,
so the network path stays current without manual intervention. The
producer's own address is never published and stays off-chain, by
design.
All three nodes are checked automatically, around the clock, every day of the year. Hourly checks watch each node's sync status, chain tip height, and peer connectivity — including, specifically, whether the block producer still has a live connection to both relays, since that link is what silently breaks if a relay's address ever changes. A separate weekly check tracks the operational certificate's remaining validity and escalates as its renewal deadline approaches, so that isn't left to chance either.
Alerts fire only when something actually needs attention — the goal is a pool that stays healthy, not a stream of routine pings.
Your ADA never leaves your wallet and is never locked. You keep full custody and can spend or re-delegate at any time. Rewards begin after roughly two epochs (about 10 days).
Delegating is non-custodial. Your ADA never leaves your wallet, is never locked up, and is never at risk — you keep full control and can spend or re-delegate whenever you like.
Rewards are paid out every epoch, in proportion to the stake delegated to the pool. Block production is probabilistic, so returns even out over time rather than landing on a fixed schedule. With a 0% margin, everything above the protocol's minimum fixed cost goes to delegators.
The parameters above describe how this pool operates — they are not a projected return, and nothing here is financial advice.
Recorded automatically from the block producer's own logs once each epoch ends.
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