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Your cold key stays on the device. Always.
Registering a stake pool usually means an air-gapped laptop and a long tutorial you only follow once. With a Ledger, PoolMan builds the certificate and the device signs it — the cold key is created there and never leaves.
Plug in the Ledger and open the Cardano app.
Ticker, pledge, margin and cost, in plain fields.
Confirm every field on the device screen itself.
Producing blocks from the following epoch.
We read your registration from the chain and you confirm ownership on the device. Block production moves across at the next epoch boundary — nothing is re-registered, so your pool ID, ticker and delegators are untouched.
This is the chore that catches people out. KES-keys expire; we email you well before they do, and the renewal happens inside PoolMan — we generate a new key, your sign the fresh OpCert on the Ledger, done. No air-gapped laptop, no USB stick, no counter mistakes at midnight.
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