SPO call going live in 1 minute (ish) https://zoom.us/j/99084453107

SPO call going live in a couple of minutes! https://zoom.us/j/94362880306

Exciting news! The IO global discord server that hosts Plutus Pioneers and the Alonzo groups has been so successful that we are opening it up to the entire Cardano community. There is a dedicated SPO Lounge open to all SPOs and to the SPO-curious, as well as a vibrant and well-moderated community. Come check it out!
You can join Discord here: https://discord.gg/cmveaxuzBn

💜 🎤 We're delighted to announce that we have now successfully spun up #AlonzoPurple and have today begun the new user onboarding process. This is an exciting and important step in the next Alonzo journey. With the support of our OG community testers on the Blue & White phases, #AlonzoPurple will be the first fully public Cardano testnet to support #SmartContracts.

📍 It's an important moment, marking significant progress in the rollout of smart contracts on the Cardano mainnet which is targeted for the end of August/early September.


🎯 Our community has been central to the progress made so far. We have now invited the 150+ strong test team to join the #AlonzoPurple network.

We are also extending a priority invitation to 300 graduates from the Plutus Pioneer program, our developer education course teaching Plutus smart contract coding to 000s of developers.

Once the initial AlonzoPurple team has been successfully onboarded (kick-off call Monday), we’ll hard fork the network and open #Alonzo any developer who wishes to join.

Check out the Twitter thread for the full update - thanks.

https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1423704788512952331

OUT NOW: Daedalus mainnet 4.2.1

Daedalus 4.2.1 enables voting registration for Project Catalyst Fund6 with the continued support of Ledger Nano S and X, Trezor T wallets.

Voting registration starts TODAY & will be open until September 30th, 11:00 UTC. https://iohk.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404885323289-Daedalus-4-2-1-release-notes

Existing users will get a prompt to update via the Daedalus newsfeed. If you are new to #Daedalus remember you should download it ONLY from the official site: https://daedaluswallet.io/en/download/ #Cardano

📢 SPO COMMUNITY CALL - 16.00 UTC 📢

Starting in just under an hour, this week’s SPO community call.

Join us for updates on:
- Alonzo Purple testnet status and plans for other testnets
- Alonzo Mainnet candidate node status
- Network issue status
- Hard fork plans

And more…!

Join the call using this link: https://zoom.us/j/94362880306

Looking forward to seeing you all there :)

❗️🍴 Today, we have just submitted an upgrade proposal to the #Cardano testnet to hardfork the chain into the #Alonzo era and enable smart contract capability. This will take effect within the next few hours.

https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1431286232278085634

A good reminder https://twitter.com/vegas_ada_pool/status/1431892958438113281?s=21

👉 NEW DELEGATION ROUND: Today, we're announcing a new round of community stake pool delegation & introducing a new approach to delegation requests: allowing SPO’s to suggest up to 2 outstanding contributions from other SPO’s who build, create, or educate.

❗️ To receive the delegation survey, please ensure you are signed up to the digest list via https://mailchi.mp/iohk/spodigest by midnight UTC on Sunday 4th September.

https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/09/01/cardano-stake-pool-operator-delegation-a-new-round/

📢 SPO COMMUNITY CALL - 16.00 UTC 📢

Starting in 2 hours, this week’s SPO community call.

Join the call using this link: https://zoom.us/j/94362880306

Looking forward to seeing you all there :)

5 minutes until we start our SPO Community Call - join using the zoom link https://zoom.us/j/94362880306

We've put together an FAQ for @SPOs, from questions we've received about the Alonzo Hardfork. If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to ask in the relevant channels.

Questions addressed
1. What breaking changes should we expect to command line options?
2. What breaking changes should we expect to config file?
3. What new command line options (and files, eg. Alonzo genesis files) are required?
4. What new config file options are required?
5. What changes in metrics will require monitoring alerts to change?
6. Will we have to include Alonzo genesis into our configs? If so, why not Mary?
7. When do SPOs need to update their nodes? And what does that entail?

Here's to this new era for Cardano and to the SPOs who make it possible each step of the way 🥳

We're livestreaming https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1437166833866579978

🚨 Don't miss this opportunity to be featured and seen by thousands at the #Cardano Summit!

Introduce your stake pool and / or your project with the link.

It's really easy - and you can upload a video you've used before, or send a link directly to lenna.onto@iohk.io if easier.

Record in landscape please 🙏

https://videoask.com/f628prjgb - please record or upload ASAP 🙌

Hello our wonderful SPOs
This week's SPO update call is going live in approximately 20 minutes.
Join with this link: https://zoom.us/j/94362880306
See you all there soon!
Lenna

Achievement unlocked! https://twitter.com/timbharrison/status/1442933582633181184?s=21