Quick heads up: After significant optimization work, node version 1.26 will largely mitigate the 48 hour performance issue.

Rewards calculations are no longer concentrated at this point in time. We’ll share share an update on release timelines with you next week.

Unrelated to this, we have enjoyed a significant growth in network transactions over the past 3 months, which brings increased memory pressure on smaller systems.

We therefore recommend that SPOs ensure that they have a min. 6 GB (preferably 8 GB), on all relays and block producing nodes, whether or not they upgrade to node 1.26.

We have updated our systems requirements to reflect this.

OUT NOW: New Daedalus Flight 4.0.2-FC3 is a multi-asset wallet that enables users to send and receive native tokens, enabling users to view their wallet public keys and spend rewards balances using hardware wallets.

Deadalus Flight https://daedaluswallet.io/en/flight/

Release notes https://iohk.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/900004913226

Cardano is on coinbase.

'Past issues' has been added to the SPO Digest. Get one, get them all! https://mailchi.mp/iohk/spo

Now that the Mary hardfork has been successfully implemented on both the Cardano mainnet and testnet, we will be discontinuing the Allegra testnet and native token pre-production environments at 14:00 UTC on 26 March.

Please be advised that any configurations and data will no longer be available on those environments from this date, so you should make alternative plans now.

Earlier today we were alerted to an anomoly re deprecation of d which we have now looked into. So we just wanted to clarify the situation.

We remain committed to handing over full responsibility for block production to our SPO community at epoch 257 on D=0 day, Wednesday 31 March. We have therefore been deprecating D by a steady 0.02 per epochs since January to reach this goal.

However, for operational reasons, we were unable to submit a decrement of 0.02 in time to take effect in epoch 255, due to commence tomorrow evening UTC.

To adjust for this, we have therefore just submitted a decrement of 0.04 (4%) to take effect in epoch 256 on Friday 26 March. This will raise the decentralization %age directly from 94% to 98%. On 31 March, full 100% block decentralization will then take place as planned.

Thanks for your understanding in this and we hope this clarifies the situation.

🥁 SPO call this week on Thursday at 15:30 UTC.

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Rewards sharing and pledge on Cardano https://youtu.be/EAzyN3H8MOA

Highlights from #Cardano360 https://twitter.com/inputoutputhk/status/1375765046786154497?s=21

Cardano360 Mini - 3.5 hours of goodness condensed down into just over 7 minutes of snack size joy.

Please share https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR72La6eQe4

Announcing a new round of community stake pool delegation

We’re using our ada to support operators running single pools helping support the Cardano network and community

https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/04/01/announcing-a-new-round-of-community-stake-pool-delegation/

Revolut just added Cardano.