Hi people! 🙂
First of all I want to thank each and everyone one of you for returning after the Sundae RISO or staying with me in the first place! We saw a quite big hit in stake after the ISO but quickly recovered afterwards. I really appreciate that.
SundaeSwap ISO and RISO
SundaeSwap ISO and RISO are over and it is possible to claim your ISO rewards via https://dripdropz.io/ now. Claiming your ISO rewards via DripDropz will come with a small fee of around ~1.6 ADA (plus ~0.18 ADA TX Fee). If you want to avoid this ~1.6 ADA fee you can wait for SundaeSwap to implement their own claiming solution which should not come with this fee. If you participated in the RISO your rewards are not claimable via DripDropz, you’ll need to wait for the SundaeSwap claiming solution. I’ll let you know if I have any more information about this. Don’t worry the rewards will be claimable for at least one year (so something around Q1/2023).
Cardano Submit-API and FreeLoaderz.io
As many Wallets already offer the option to use a custom submit endpoint for transactions instead of using their endpoints, I setup a Submit Endpoint for you:
- https://submit.fairpool.eu/api/submit/tx
That endpoint uses an infrastructure of dedicated distribution relays connected to many peers inside the Cardano network to get your transactions onto the chain. The performance should be significantly better than the public options during high congestion times (e.g. highly anticipated NFT drops) as there are likely less users on this submit endpoint than on the endpoints of the wallet providers. If you need any help setting your wallet don’t hesitate to contact me.
I also joined https://www.freeloaderz.io/ a coalition of Cardano Stake Pools offering access to their submit APIs to help improve transaction speeds and spread the load among the network. Several submit APIs are sitting behind an HAProxy load balancer that you can also use to submit your transactions depending on your location:
- https://usa.freeloaderz.io/api/submit/tx
- https://europe.freeloaderz.io/api/submit/tx
Also stop by at their Discord (or contact me directly) if you have any questions about the project. Want to help? Then it would be appreciated if you’d check out the FreeLoaderz Catalyst proposals https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/403911 (Load Balancer) and https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/403924 (Reward Distribution).
Upcoming Maintenance and Hardware Upgrades
During the next few weeks I’ll upgrade several parts of the pools infrastructure. If you are subscribed to any notification bots you may see alerts about some relays being occasionally down. I assure you that there is enough redundancy in place that there will be no influence on the block production of the pool whatsoever.
The goal of these upgrades is to make the pool more future proof and have enough spare resources in place. I will also add a fourth relay and spread out the relays to even more different countries to be prepared for any eventuality and to be well interconnected within the network.
New IOHK Blog posts
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Cardano360 – February 2022
Performance and assigned slot
| Epoch | Leader | Ideal | Luck | Confirmed Luck | Produced | Confirmed | Missed | Ghosted | Stolen | Invalid |
| 322 | 62 | 63.1 | 98.26% | 90.33% | 62 | 57 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 323 | 39 | 33.91 | 115.01% | 112.06% | 39 | 38 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 324 | 37 | 32.27 | 114.66% | 111.56% | 37 | 36 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 325 | 47 | 34.8 | 135.06% | 126.44% | 47 | 44 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 326 | 41 | 48.91 | 83.83% | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Looking at the past epochs we saw a great performance during the 323 – 325 with each over 110% confirmed luck. 322 could have been a good one too but unfortunately we saw 5 ghosted blocks due to nearby other slots. 326 will end as a rather unlucky one as we were assigned only 41 slots which is way under the expected 49 slots.
That’s all I have for you today. Talk to you soon! 🙂