First of all a big thank you to all people who delegated their stakes to this pool. I have good news for all of you: We’re going to produce blocks in epoch 210 and we will therefore be among the first pools ever to create blocks in the shelley mainnet.
At exactly 21:44:51 UTC on August 3, 2020 epoch 209 started and the very first stake snapshot took place.
At this point in time 4,273,250.559953 ADA were delegated to this pool. Based on the calculations the stake is high enough that we will produce blocks in epoch 210 and receive rewards for that. The currently expected yearly rewards should be around 4.7%. Depending on the development of the pool, up to 5.2% are possible.
We had a good start and we’ll continue to do everything in the future to offer you safe and reliable staking.
For more information and general FAQs regarding the Shelley hard fork, as well as delegation & rewards you could read this blog post: The Shelley hard fork: all you need to know
[UPDATE]:
As discussed by Charles in his video about “The Shelley Hybrid Era and the d parameter” the above mentioned delegation cycle was postponed by one cycle for the whole cardano network. According to this new cycle pools will start making blocks in shelley epoch 3 (211) instead of shelley epoch 2 (210). This affects every pool in the network. Just wanted to keep you informed.
[UPDATE #2]:
To keep you up to date here are some current numbers:
At 2020/08/08 21:44:51 UTC epoch 210 started and the second stake snapshot was taken. As I already mentioned in the first update the delegation cycle was postponed, which means that this snapshot will (hopefully) be the basis to determine who will be making blocks in epoch 211. The good news: We’re still in! As of my estimations at the time of the snapshot about 6.72 million ADA were staked in this pool, which should be (according to my calculations) enough to mint at least one block (which requires about ~4.6 million ADA staked) and therefore earning rewards. Since the selection of slot leaders is still subject to a certain randomness we need to wait for epoch 211 to see the real numbers. I also rechecked the expected yearly rewards and they are still floating around 4.7%. Please note, that the rewards could be lower or higher in the first few epochs but will level out over time.
Talk to you soon 🙂