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  1. Tips & Tricks

Useful Links

This section contains links to common tools and information sites that are used by stake pool operators both when setting up their nodes and while maintaining their pool.

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Setup Tutorials

This list contains tutorials to help you setup your Cardano Stake Pool. Some of these materials include bonus items related to maintenance and improvements to your pool such as security hardening:

- these are the official training materials from the Cardano Foundation. As of this writing some commands and instructions are quite dated but the underlying concepts are discussed deeper compared to other tutorials. I suggest to look into this first if you are not in a hurry.

- this is a straightforward tutorial on how to build your stake pool using command line tools. If you prefer to understand what is going on, this is a good, frequently updated resource.

- creators of popular automated tools like cntools and gLiveView, the Guild Operators' site has resources on how to use their scripts to create a pool and much more.

Specialized Builds

The following are links to very specific builds created by members of the Cardano Community. Compared to the Setup Tutorials above, these builds are more specific to certain hardware and/or configurations. As such, fewer people have used these instructions so there may be as yet undiscovered errors so please proceed with caution. Nevertheless, these are very good resources and if you are looking for these specific builds, you would be happy to see that they have been extensively documented already:

- This site goes through instructions on how to setup Cardano nodes on Kubernetes/microk8's. This site is created and maintained by DanTup [CODER].

- this site gives instructions on how to setup Cardano nodes on Raspberry Pi's. It is maintained by the . Thanks to Wael [PIADA] for sharing this link.

- this repository contains an playbook for provisioning secure, optimized Cardano nodes for Stake Pool Operators (SPOs). It was originally developed by the [MOAI] Pool.

Pool Explorers (Mainnet)

These are sites that help you look at the characteristics of stake pools in Mainnet (production Cardano network) including pool ID, history of blocks produced, current delegations, etc. There are a lot more explorers than this list but these are some of the most popular ones:

Pool Explorers (Testnet)

These are sites that specifically let you explore the stake pools in the Testnet (Cardano testing network).

Block Explorers

These are sites for investigating details about a wallet or a transaction:

Wallets

Official wallets

These are the officially supported wallets where you can store your Cardano coins, stake your coins and check rewards:

Community created wallets

These are light wallets that were created by community members but don’t cross them out yet. Some of these wallets have surprisingly better capabilities than the official wallets and are faster to use. They also are able to connect to both mainnet and testnet environments among others. Some of the notable community wallets include:

There are other wallets out there but these are the ones that are more popular. For safety, remember to only download these wallets from the official websites.

Pool Health Checkers

When setting up or performing changes on your pool, these sites can help to check if your nodes are configured correctly. Both sites have good information. Check them both out and see which one you prefer:

I would venture to say that these pool checkers are mandatory tools you should run whenever you changed anything on your node from registration to KES updates to addition of relays.

This is an invaluable site for checking if your ports are open correctly. Useful when you have just setup new nodes or if you want to check if external relays are running before adding them to your topology files.

Official Links

These are the official links to various official Cardano sites and social media:

Delegator Questions

SPOT Check was created as a helpful site for stake pool operators. Nevertheless, we understand that delegators who are not familiar with Cardano may also have questions. Therefore, we have created a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) in our main website. Please go to this link instead for beginner/delegator questions:

Scam Reporting

Report any scam attempts to cardano-fraud@iog.io

- a full node wallet that downloads a copy of the blockchain.

- a light, fast wallet ideal for day to day use created by Emurgo.

- a light wallet with all the usual capabilities plus the ability to interact with smart contracts. It also has advanced capabilities like ability to delegate to multiple pools from the same wallet.

- a light wallet that also has smart contracts capability. Limited to delegating to Berry pool.

- another light wallet with smart contracts capability

- main site for developing in Cardano

- technical forum where developers can ask questions and get answers

- documentation on Cardano’s smart contract language

- more general site where you can discuss all things Cardano

- the official website of IOHK

- this is the main Discord link to IOG’s technical community which combines discussion rooms for developers, stake pool operators, plutus pioneers and others.

Daedalus
Yoroi
CCVault
Nami
Gero
Cardano Developer’s Portal
Cardano Stack Exchange
Plutus Documentation
Cardano Forum
IOHK Website
IOG Technical Community
https://blockchainlens.wordpress.com/faq/
Stake Pool School
CoinCashew
Guild Operators
Kubernetes
Raspberry Pi
Armada Alliance
Ansible
Ansible
Cardano PoolTool
Pooltool.io - has a simple interface and is easy to use
Cardano PoolTool
pooltool.io - click on the Mainnet button at the bottom of the page to view Testnet pools
https://Adapools.orgadapools.org
Adapools.org - has groupings of relays by location and more detailed statistics
QCPOL Stake Pool
QCPOL - allows filtering by pool size, group and location (if in extended metadata)
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ADATools - Cardano Dashboard Explorer
testnet.adatools.io - an alternative site for viewing Testnet pools
Cardanoscan - Cardano Explorer
cardanoscan.io - Cardano block explorer with a good interface
https://Explorer.cardano.org
explorer.cardano.org - one of the earliest Cardano block explorers
Streamlit
Raw Cardano - gives all the info you need about a pool in a simple interface
Pool info by Enigma Stake pool
poolinfo.me - has additional links to information about other stakepools
Open Port Check Tool - Test Port Forwarding on Your Router
yougetsignal - generic tool to check open status of ports
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