Introduction

Link collection of all educational content and tools which have been created by xSPO Members.

Knowledge

Delegators Know How

Delegator Guide: https://cardano-staking.at/en/how-to-select-a-cardano-stakepool

Delegator Exam: https://forum.cardano.org/t/exam-delegator/65990

SPO Know How

SPO Guide: https://cardano-staking.at/en/plan-cardano-stakepool-guide

SPO Exam: https://forum.cardano.org/t/exam-stake-pool-operator/63112

Understand Rewards Flow: https://forum.cardano.org/t/understanding-rewards-flow-and-how-it-will-change-over-time/68602

Slot Battles explained: https://www.ada4good.com/post/how-is-a-stake-pool-selected-to-mint-a-block-slot-lottery-explained

Recommended Configurations

Missed Slots

Avoid missing slots by configuration: https://forum.cardano.org/t/no-more-missed-slots-during-epoch-after-changing-one-setting/67924/10

Installation

Validate Cardano Node installation: https://github.com/sadaka-io/cardano-node-sanity-checks/

Operational Scripts

Monitoring

TIP Reporting to Healtchecks IO: https://github.com/ResponsibleStaking/Cardano-SPO-Scripts

Grafana Dashboard

Installation tutorial and sample dashboard: https://www.panl.org/dashboards

V2: https://panl-stake-pool.gitbook.io/grafana-monitoring-setup-for-cardano-stake-pool/

Failover Script

Failover based on external availabiltiy monitoring: https://github.com/ResponsibleStaking/Cardano-Heartbeat-Failover Simple failover: https://github.com/ResponsibleStaking/Cardano-Simple-Failover

Tools

Check Scheduled blocks without a Node

https://github.com/asnakep/ScheduledBlocks

NFT Minting Scripts

ADA and Native Tokens Payment Scripts

Transfer ADA and Native Tokens from multiple addresses to multiple addresses: https://github.com/cardano-apexpool/payments

Ansible playbook for provisioning a Cardano stake pool

Manage the stake pool nodes using ansible: https://github.com/moaipool/ansible-cardano-node