Cardano Stake Pool

The Wyoming Advanced Blockchain Lab develops and deploys stake pools on Cardano’s blockchain networks.

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Team Members Involved: 

Finley McIlwaine

Dr. Jim Caldwell

Dr. Mike Borowczak

Philip Schlump

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Short Term Goals:

1. Formally register the stake pool on the main Cardano blockchain network.

2. Develop a monitoring framework that publishes the stake pool’s performance characteristics.

3. Aggregate information and data from the node on a dedicated, publicly available website. 

 

Long Term Goals:

1. Increase student and community engagement through marketing and integration of topics in stake pool operation in courses across the University of Wyoming.

2. Develop an interactive and engaging framework for stake pool delegators.

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Successes:

Acquired $50,000 in funding from the University of Wyoming Foundation as an investment in the stake pool’s goals of enhancing the student educational experience at the University of Wyoming. Created initial deployments of stake pools on the Cardano test blockchain networks.