Three steps to hand over the servers. Your pool ID, ticker and delegators never change.
After you create your account, you need to claim your stake pool. Search for it in the interface and verify ownership by uploading your VRF signing key, which we match to blockchain data.
Once the pool ownership is verified, you need to upload your KES-key and OpCert, in order for us to produce blocks for your pool. We verify the validity of the KES-period and counter.
Simply click a button to enable block production. Your stake pool will be launched and started on our servers in the following epoch.
A sketch of what you'll be looking at. Nothing else is required of you.
The part that used to be your evenings and weekends.
All relays and block producers are running P2P with the latest Cardano-node version, with properly configured topology for great connectivity. You don't have to worry about any of this anymore – we monitor all servers and ensure blocks are produced timely and correctly.
If a block producer fails, a hot standby takes its place. Nobody has to be awake for it to happen, least of all you.
KES period and OpCert counter are checked continuously, and you get an email in good time — not on the morning it lapses.
Epoch by epoch, with the block number that proves it was minted — so you can check our work rather than take our word.