POLY] 💚 Epoch 279 Recap
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 18
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ We selected a third SPO to join the white testnet
- Yearly subscriptions have been renewed for the VM nodes
⚪️Alonzo White testnet ⚪️ :
* On hold for the next phase of the exercices
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 18
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ We selected a third SPO to join the white testnet
- Yearly subscriptions have been renewed for the VM nodes
⚪️Alonzo White testnet ⚪️ :
* On hold for the next phase of the exercices
[POLY] 💚 Epoch 280 Recap (little late due to work)
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 10
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ It has been quite some time since we had a low luck epoch. With 10 blocks, it is normal variation but never enjoyable. All assigned blocks were minted correctly, nothing to improve on this subject unfortunately.
💥 New record : 500+ delegators 💥
🏋️♂️ Technical operations :
- Full security audit of the nodes / logs showed no intrusion or non blocked attempts
⚪️Alonzo White testnet ⚪️ :
* Pace on the SPOs side is quite slow. We finished the exercices and made some tests
* Next version of the node : 1.3 expected next week with a reboot of the network
* There seem to be an internal testnet in addition to the white testnet. Not the best sign as it shows a lot still has to be done.
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 10
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ It has been quite some time since we had a low luck epoch. With 10 blocks, it is normal variation but never enjoyable. All assigned blocks were minted correctly, nothing to improve on this subject unfortunately.
💥 New record : 500+ delegators 💥
🏋️♂️ Technical operations :
- Full security audit of the nodes / logs showed no intrusion or non blocked attempts
⚪️Alonzo White testnet ⚪️ :
* Pace on the SPOs side is quite slow. We finished the exercices and made some tests
* Next version of the node : 1.3 expected next week with a reboot of the network
* There seem to be an internal testnet in addition to the white testnet. Not the best sign as it shows a lot still has to be done.
[POLY] 💚 Epoch 281 Recap
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 13
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ We saw multiple outflows of 15.6K adas this epoch and it took us a while to figure it out. Congrats to all that purchased 100.000 World mobile tokens, the amount necessary to run an earth node on their network !
⁃ Given the current market, we are strongly considering keeping the pool at the minimum fee as we are happy already with the current situation.
⁃ Low luck epoch again. We will be back on average on the next one.
⚪️Alonzo White testnet ⚪️ :
* Next set of exercices have been published, more advanced
* No news of the next phase yet
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 13
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ We saw multiple outflows of 15.6K adas this epoch and it took us a while to figure it out. Congrats to all that purchased 100.000 World mobile tokens, the amount necessary to run an earth node on their network !
⁃ Given the current market, we are strongly considering keeping the pool at the minimum fee as we are happy already with the current situation.
⁃ Low luck epoch again. We will be back on average on the next one.
⚪️Alonzo White testnet ⚪️ :
* Next set of exercices have been published, more advanced
* No news of the next phase yet
[POLY] 💚 Epoch 283 Recap
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 19
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ Back on a positive luck epoch. It is more pleasant but remember this luck draw is part of cardamon’s protocol and it is expected to have variance between epochs. It will even out in the long run
⚪️Alonzo White testnet ⚪️ :
* New node build and being tested right now
* We’re starting to see transaction activity on the blockchain, proof more and more smarts contracts are being tested
* We are helping investigating a bug where the nodes become unreachable after a certain period of time. Other than that the new version works as expected for smart contracts
🔊 New Voter registration for Fund6️⃣ is now open
Good epoch everyone !
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 19
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ Back on a positive luck epoch. It is more pleasant but remember this luck draw is part of cardamon’s protocol and it is expected to have variance between epochs. It will even out in the long run
⚪️Alonzo White testnet ⚪️ :
* New node build and being tested right now
* We’re starting to see transaction activity on the blockchain, proof more and more smarts contracts are being tested
* We are helping investigating a bug where the nodes become unreachable after a certain period of time. Other than that the new version works as expected for smart contracts
🔊 New Voter registration for Fund6️⃣ is now open
Good epoch everyone !
[POLY] 💚 Epoch 285 Recap
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 14
🏋️♂️ Technical operations :
⁃ US relay has been migrated from Contabo to OVH, to improve its QoS
⚪️Alonzo White testnet ⚪️ :
* New testnet has been spinup. POLY testnet pool has been re-registered and is operationnal
* Nodes have been updated to 1.29.0-rc2. A bug making relays unavaible after some time seems to be resolved with this candidate.
* Network is running smooth otherwise
🔊 Voter registration for Fund6 is open
Good epoch everyone !
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 14
🏋️♂️ Technical operations :
⁃ US relay has been migrated from Contabo to OVH, to improve its QoS
⚪️Alonzo White testnet ⚪️ :
* New testnet has been spinup. POLY testnet pool has been re-registered and is operationnal
* Nodes have been updated to 1.29.0-rc2. A bug making relays unavaible after some time seems to be resolved with this candidate.
* Network is running smooth otherwise
🔊 Voter registration for Fund6 is open
Good epoch everyone !
[POLY] 💚 Epoch 287
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 13
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ Pool is ready (and excited !!) for Alonzo's Hard Fork in 10 days
🏋️♂️ Technical operations :
- All nodes have been migrated to 1.29.0
- Started migration to Ubuntu 21.04
⚪️Alonzo Purple testnet ⚪️ :
* Testnet has hard forked to Alonzo era yesterday. The Purple testnet is becoming redundant and should be closed in a few days / weeks
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 13
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ Pool is ready (and excited !!) for Alonzo's Hard Fork in 10 days
🏋️♂️ Technical operations :
- All nodes have been migrated to 1.29.0
- Started migration to Ubuntu 21.04
⚪️Alonzo Purple testnet ⚪️ :
* Testnet has hard forked to Alonzo era yesterday. The Purple testnet is becoming redundant and should be closed in a few days / weeks
[POLY] 💚 Epoch 288
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 9
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ Following the recent FUD episode on Cardano, we have studied quite extensively the technical questions that were brought up (Concurrency / tx size / ...). We have been actively answering questions on Reddit for the past days in order to /try to/ shed some light on misinformation.
=> If you have any questions do not hesitate to send a message
⁃ Slow epoch. We will be back above luck for the next one.
🏋️♂️ Technical operations :
- We have been monitoring the nodes quite closely this epoch following the version upgrade. Delay of blocks is higher with the new node version but block production is unaffected.
- We had a clock synchronization problem for a few weeks on the US node. Migrating to OVH resolved the issue
⚪️Alonzo Purple testnet ⚪️ :
* Pool has been deregistered, we are migrating it to the official testnet network
🔊 Launch of smart contracts confirmed for the end of next epoch : 12th
Good epoch everyone !
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 9
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ Following the recent FUD episode on Cardano, we have studied quite extensively the technical questions that were brought up (Concurrency / tx size / ...). We have been actively answering questions on Reddit for the past days in order to /try to/ shed some light on misinformation.
=> If you have any questions do not hesitate to send a message
⁃ Slow epoch. We will be back above luck for the next one.
🏋️♂️ Technical operations :
- We have been monitoring the nodes quite closely this epoch following the version upgrade. Delay of blocks is higher with the new node version but block production is unaffected.
- We had a clock synchronization problem for a few weeks on the US node. Migrating to OVH resolved the issue
⚪️Alonzo Purple testnet ⚪️ :
* Pool has been deregistered, we are migrating it to the official testnet network
🔊 Launch of smart contracts confirmed for the end of next epoch : 12th
Good epoch everyone !
[POLY] 💚 Epoch 289
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 15 (that's better)
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ On board for the new Alonzo era ! We will spend the evening confirming everything is running smoothly and as it should, and monitoring the nodes ram / cpu / connections ...
🏋️♂️ Technical operations :
- Not the epoch to change anything. A thorough checkup of all the servers was made, everything is rebooted and ready for the hardfork
- On deck for any emergency rollback/update
Good epoch everyone !
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 15 (that's better)
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ On board for the new Alonzo era ! We will spend the evening confirming everything is running smoothly and as it should, and monitoring the nodes ram / cpu / connections ...
🏋️♂️ Technical operations :
- Not the epoch to change anything. A thorough checkup of all the servers was made, everything is rebooted and ready for the hardfork
- On deck for any emergency rollback/update
Good epoch everyone !
[POLY] 💚 Epoch 290
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 13
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ The last version of the nodes (1.29.0) has introduced some regression in terms of performance (block delay, reboot time etc). We have been monitoring this closely this epoch
🏋️♂️ Technical operations :
- We have disabled the US relay due to a regression. Under investigation
Good epoch everyone !
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 13
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ The last version of the nodes (1.29.0) has introduced some regression in terms of performance (block delay, reboot time etc). We have been monitoring this closely this epoch
🏋️♂️ Technical operations :
- We have disabled the US relay due to a regression. Under investigation
Good epoch everyone !
[POLY] 💚 Epoch 292 Recap
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 12
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ With the end of the testnet. Technical operations have slown down and we will start focusing next week on how to improve and promote the pool
🏋️ Technical operations :
- KES keys updated. Pool is good for the next 90 days
Good epoch everyone !
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 12
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ With the end of the testnet. Technical operations have slown down and we will start focusing next week on how to improve and promote the pool
🏋️ Technical operations :
- KES keys updated. Pool is good for the next 90 days
Good epoch everyone !
[POLY] 💚 Epoch 293 Recap
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 12
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ 💥 600 blocks achieved
🏋️ Technical operations :
- Nodes updated to 1.30.1
- cncli updated to V4.0.1
- Scripts updated to the breaking changes of cncli
Good epoch everyone !
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 12
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ 💥 600 blocks achieved
🏋️ Technical operations :
- Nodes updated to 1.30.1
- cncli updated to V4.0.1
- Scripts updated to the breaking changes of cncli
Good epoch everyone !
[POLY] 💚 Epoch 294 Recap
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 12
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ Lots of technical maintenance this epoch
⁃ Working on different strategies to improve the stake of the pool
🏋️ Technical operations :
- Since 1.29.1, the software is somewhat less stable and forced us to investigate/improve latency between the nodes
- Since reinstalling the US node, we had an instability between the US node and the Singapore node (random, the worst kind). While this did not affect the reliability of the block production, thanks to the redundancy, it took a day to debug the problem. The curlprit was a bug in vpncloud 1.4, in some edge cases, in ip v6 (we use it to create a private vpn network between the production node and the relay nodes,for security reasons). All nodes are fully operational.
Good epoch everyone !
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 12
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ Lots of technical maintenance this epoch
⁃ Working on different strategies to improve the stake of the pool
🏋️ Technical operations :
- Since 1.29.1, the software is somewhat less stable and forced us to investigate/improve latency between the nodes
- Since reinstalling the US node, we had an instability between the US node and the Singapore node (random, the worst kind). While this did not affect the reliability of the block production, thanks to the redundancy, it took a day to debug the problem. The curlprit was a bug in vpncloud 1.4, in some edge cases, in ip v6 (we use it to create a private vpn network between the production node and the relay nodes,for security reasons). All nodes are fully operational.
Good epoch everyone !
[POLY] 💚 Epoch 295 Recap
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 12
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ 4 consecutive epochs with 12 blocks. First time the pool had such stability in luck
🏋️ Technical operations :
- Singapore's node has a slight random instability every 2 or 3 days (disconnects for 20 seconds). Under investigation, but this has no impact on the infrastucture and is most likely due to a regression in the software.
Good epoch everyone !
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 12
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ 4 consecutive epochs with 12 blocks. First time the pool had such stability in luck
🏋️ Technical operations :
- Singapore's node has a slight random instability every 2 or 3 days (disconnects for 20 seconds). Under investigation, but this has no impact on the infrastucture and is most likely due to a regression in the software.
Good epoch everyone !
[POLY] 💚 Epoch 297 Recap
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 9
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ Another hard fork event that went seamlessly (that one was not really advertised, it was a modification / correction of existing parameters and a bug in the smart contracts)
⁃ The IOG delegation moved as expected. We are still above 10M delegated and consistently minting blocks (next epoch should be a good one).
⁃ More smart contract transactions are seen on the network lately, without much impact on the pools cpu/ram usage. Hopefully we will start to see some real implementations soon. But the plutus application backend PAB will be the real game changer for apps, expected next month ...
🏋️ Technical operations :
- Still investigating the Singapore's node random disconnect. Most likely due to the disk speed and not a regression of the software as initially thought. We will upgrade the VM and confirm
Good epoch everyone !
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 9
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ Another hard fork event that went seamlessly (that one was not really advertised, it was a modification / correction of existing parameters and a bug in the smart contracts)
⁃ The IOG delegation moved as expected. We are still above 10M delegated and consistently minting blocks (next epoch should be a good one).
⁃ More smart contract transactions are seen on the network lately, without much impact on the pools cpu/ram usage. Hopefully we will start to see some real implementations soon. But the plutus application backend PAB will be the real game changer for apps, expected next month ...
🏋️ Technical operations :
- Still investigating the Singapore's node random disconnect. Most likely due to the disk speed and not a regression of the software as initially thought. We will upgrade the VM and confirm
Good epoch everyone !
[POLY] 💚 Epoch 298 Recap
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 12
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ 💥 Record : 99 transactions in block 6413485
⁃ POLY's operations will expend to WorldMobile. We have successfully reserved earth nodes in the early staking phase
🏋️ Technical operations :
- Started refactoring our ansible project managing all our node as "Infrasture as a code", to handle generic node deployment over multiple projects (testnets / cardano / WMT...)
Good epoch everyone !
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 12
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ 💥 Record : 99 transactions in block 6413485
⁃ POLY's operations will expend to WorldMobile. We have successfully reserved earth nodes in the early staking phase
🏋️ Technical operations :
- Started refactoring our ansible project managing all our node as "Infrasture as a code", to handle generic node deployment over multiple projects (testnets / cardano / WMT...)
Good epoch everyone !
⁃ 💥 Record : 108 transactions in block 6426061 🤣. Early epoch blocks sure are nice !
[POLY] 💚 Epoch 302 Recap
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 13
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ 💥 Record : 142 transactions in block 6497096 (and 1 million transactions for the epoch, new high also)
⁃ 💥 700 blocks achieved, production is running smoothly
🏋️ Technical operations :
- All nodes updated to the latest 1.31.0
- Minimum RAM is now 12gb => Updated the Singapore node
Good epoch everyone !
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 13
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ 💥 Record : 142 transactions in block 6497096 (and 1 million transactions for the epoch, new high also)
⁃ 💥 700 blocks achieved, production is running smoothly
🏋️ Technical operations :
- All nodes updated to the latest 1.31.0
- Minimum RAM is now 12gb => Updated the Singapore node
Good epoch everyone !
[POLY] 💚 Epoch 305 Recap
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 9
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ The size of the pool has been sucked by some ISPO events. This does not change how we operate and we are planning on how to regain size afterwards
⁃ The size of the blocks increase with this epoch's parameter change. We will monitor quite closely the nodes this epoch
🏋️ Technical operations :
- Testnet node deactivated
- Common maintenance
Good epoch everyone !
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 9
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ The size of the pool has been sucked by some ISPO events. This does not change how we operate and we are planning on how to regain size afterwards
⁃ The size of the blocks increase with this epoch's parameter change. We will monitor quite closely the nodes this epoch
🏋️ Technical operations :
- Testnet node deactivated
- Common maintenance
Good epoch everyone !
[POLY] 💚 Epoch 309 Recap
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 6
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ Have a great christmas everyone and happy Hodling ! Enjoy the holidays
🏋️ Technical operations :
- Updated KES keys, the pool is good to go for another 90 days
- Updated all nodes to 1.32.1. One node on 1.33.0 pre-release
Good epoch everyone !
⛏ Blocks in Epoch: 6
🌲 Life of the pool :
⁃ Have a great christmas everyone and happy Hodling ! Enjoy the holidays
🏋️ Technical operations :
- Updated KES keys, the pool is good to go for another 90 days
- Updated all nodes to 1.32.1. One node on 1.33.0 pre-release
Good epoch everyone !
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Let's have a fantastic year with Cardano 🥳
Let's have a fantastic year with Cardano 🥳