Welcome! This monthly newsletter, The Pulse, highlights what has been happening within Cardano and Voltairera. As the very first edition, I want to express how Voltairera came to be and our initiatives.
Within the Cardano roadmap, Voltaire is the final phase enabling self-sustainment of the blockchain — the era of self-governance. As a stake pool, VoltPool's primary goal is to validate and produce blocks. By doing so, we grow the ecosystem and reward the delegators who believe in us.
VoltPool is just the beginning — Voltairera's first phase of growing and building within the Cardano ecosystem. To build, one must understand the landscape. Voltairera has been here since the beginning, learning the ecosystem. Voltairera wouldn't be where it is today without its delegators believing in VoltPool. Thank you.
VoltPool updates — rewards
- Produced 14 blocks from Epoch 209–214 at the time of publication.
- Current return on stake of 5.81% for delegators.
- Produced almost 17,700 ADA for delegators as of Epoch 213.
- Pool size ~21.7M (about 10%) — a prime position to provide maximum rewards in the long run once K increases.
Improvements
- Upgraded all relays and the block producer to 1.19.0 with only seconds of downtime.
- Enhanced security and monitoring across the four relays and block producer.
- Standard operating procedures were updated.
Community
- A GitHub page is being created to provide education on Cardano, stake pool SOPs, and Cardano Improvement Proposals (CIPs).
- Work on db-sync and PostgreSQL is in progress.