Verifying an ITN Stake Pool
In order to defend against spoofing and hijacking of reputable stake pools, a owner can verify their ticker by proving ownership of an ITN stake pool.
Incentivized Testnet phase of Cardanoβs Shelley era ran from late November 2019 to late June 2020. If you participated, you can verify your ticker.
Make sure the ITN's jcli
binaries are present in $NODE_HOME
. Use jcli
to sign your stake pool id with your itn_owner.skey
Visit pooltool.io and enter your owner public key and pool id witness data in the metadata section.
Find your pool id witness with the following command.
Find your owner public key in the file you generated on ITN. This data might be stored in a file ending in .pub
Finally, update your stake pool information with the PoolTool-generated metadata-url
and metadata-hash
. Notice the metadata has an "extended" field that proves your ticker ownership since ITN.