Copy poolMetaDataHash.txt to your air-gapped offline machine, cold environment.
Next, upload your md.json file to a Web site that you administer or a public Web site. For example, you can upload your pool metadata to GitHub.
Verify the metadata hashes by comparing your uploaded .json file and your local .json file's hash.
Get the metadata hash from your metadata json URL. Replace <https://REPLACE WITH YOUR METADATA_URL> with your actual URL.
cardano-cli stake-pool metadata-hash --pool-metadata-file <(curl -s -L <https://REPLACE WITH YOUR METADATA_URL>)
This above hash must equal the local metadata hash.
cat poolMetaDataHash.txt
If the hashes do no match, then the uploaded .json file likely was truncated or extra whitespace caused issues. Upload the .json again or to a different web host.
minPoolCost is 340000000 lovelace or 340 ADA. Therefore, your --pool-cost must be at a minimum this amount.
Create a registration certificate for your stake pool. Update with your metadata URL and your relay node information. Choose one of the three options available to configure relay nodes -- DNS based, Round Robin DNS based, or IP based.
DNS based relays are recommended for simplicity of node management. In other words, you don't need to re-submit this registration certificate transaction every time your IP changes. Also you can easily update the DNS to point towards a new IP should you re-locate or re-build a relay node, for example.
Update the next operation
cardano-cli stake-pool registration-certificate
to be run on your air-gapped offline machine appropriately. Replace with your proper domain names or IP addresses.
--pool-relay-port 6000 \
--pool-relay-ipv4 <your first relay node public IP address> \
--pool-relay-port 6000 \
--pool-relay-ipv4 <your second relay node public IP address> \
metadata-url must be less than 64 characters. Shorten your URL or file name.
This operation creates a delegation certificate which delegates funds from all stake addresses associated with key stake.vkey to the pool belonging to cold key node.vkey
A stake pool owner's promise to fund their own pool is called Pledge.
Your balance needs to be greater than the pledge amount.
You pledge funds are not moved anywhere. In this guide's example, the pledge remains in the stake pool's owner keys, specifically payment.addr
Failing to fulfill pledge will result in missed block minting opportunities and your delegators would miss rewards.
Your pledge is not locked up. You are free to transfer your funds.
You need to find the tip of the blockchain to set the invalid-hereafter parameter properly.
currentSlot=$(cardano-cli query tip --mainnet | jq -r '.slot')
echo Current Slot: $currentSlot
Find your balance and UTXOs.
cardano-cli query utxo \
--address $(cat payment.addr) \
--mainnet > fullUtxo.out
tail -n +3 fullUtxo.out | sort -k3 -nr > balance.out
cat balance.out
tx_in=""
total_balance=0
while read -r utxo; do
type=$(awk '{ print $6 }' <<< "${utxo}")
if [[ ${type} == 'TxOutDatumNone' ]]
then
in_addr=$(awk '{ print $1 }' <<< "${utxo}")
idx=$(awk '{ print $2 }' <<< "${utxo}")
utxo_balance=$(awk '{ print $3 }' <<< "${utxo}")
total_balance=$((${total_balance}+${utxo_balance}))
echo TxHash: ${in_addr}#${idx}
echo ADA: ${utxo_balance}
tx_in="${tx_in} --tx-in ${in_addr}#${idx}"
fi
done < balance.out
txcnt=$(cat balance.out | wc -l)
echo Total available ADA balance: ${total_balance}
echo Number of UTXOs: ${txcnt}
