Musings18 Sept 2026
Genesis, and the problem of starting from nothing
Ouroboros Genesis is now the default on mainnet. It solves a specific problem: how does a node that knows nothing work out which chain is the real one?
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Cardano Updates17 Sept 2026
Cardano Node 11.1.2
It's upgrade time. A small ledger release, and our pools are running it.
Musings16 Sept 2026
What happens to your rewards if a pool goes offline?
You miss a share of one epoch's rewards and nothing else. Your ADA never moves, and the loss does not carry into the next epoch.
Musings13 Sept 2026
Can you stake your ADA and forget about it?
Yes, with a pool you can trust for years. We set a 1% margin and a 340 ADA fixed fee in 2020, have never charged more, and never will.
Musings7 Sept 2026
Why do some pools mint more blocks than others?
Mostly it comes down to stake and to luck, and rather less than people expect to how well the pool is actually run.
Cardano Updates4 Sept 2026
Daedalus 11.3.0
Daedalus 11.3.0 is out, support moves to SE7EN Labs' new Ariadne portal, and Mithril has made a real difference to sync times. We've tested it.
Musings1 Sept 2026
Can a stake pool take your ADA?
No, and the reason is worth understanding, because the mechanism is the whole point of Cardano's staking design.
Site Announcements1 Sept 2026
Preparation pays
Disaster recovery only counts if you have tested it, so we rehearse the whole failover on a quarterly cycle, and the last one found two bugs in our automated failover processes.
Cardano Governance23 Aug 2026
How We Voted
Two governance actions are open to stake pools until epoch 653. We abstained on the minPoolCost reduction and voted yes on the Constitutional Committee renewal. Here is the reasoning behind both.
Musings4 Aug 2026
The Lindy effect
More than half the stake pools ever registered on Cardano have stopped. Of the 2,464 that launched in staking's first year, 811 are still producing, which makes lifetime block count a record of survival rather than size.
Musings20 Jul 2026
Dijkstra, and the shortest path
van Rossem is in, and the next era on Cardano's roadmap is Dijkstra. A note on the man the era is named after, and why the naming is a better fit than it first looks.
Site Announcements19 Jul 2026
van Rossem is live, and a fee update
The van Rossem hard fork is live and block production carried on uninterrupted. From 2 August, ADAvault's introductory 0% margin moves to 1%, still among the lowest fees anywhere in the ecosystem.
Cardano Updates26 Jun 2026
The SecondFi (formerly Yoroi) incident: your stake is safe
Staking with ADAvault is non-custodial and unaffected by the SecondFi (formerly Yoroi) wallet incident. Follow EMURGO's official guidance and beware the phishing that follows.
Cardano Governance17 Jun 2026
van Rossem Hard Fork
We've voted ADAvault's four pools in favour of the van Rossem hard fork, Cardano's upgrade to protocol version 11.
Musings3 Jun 2026
The Long View
Buffett's line about fear and greed is really about temperament, not timing. The substance behind Cardano — Leios, Midnight, careful peer-reviewed engineering — hasn't changed, and ADAvault carries on as before.
Cardano Community17 May 2026
Cardano at the Open Source Summit
The Cardano Foundation is at the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit this week to show how Cardano operates as an open-source project. Quietly, that's the whole point.
Cardano Updates13 May 2026
cardano-node 11.0.1
ADAvault's nodes are now on cardano-node 11.0.1, ahead of the Van Rossem (PV11) hard fork. Block production has been uninterrupted and there's nothing for delegators to do.
Cardano Updates13 May 2026
Daedalus 11.0.0
Daedalus 11.0.0 is out with Van Rossem (PV11) hard fork support. If you manage your ADAvault delegation in Daedalus, update before the fork.
Cardano Updates13 May 2026
Formal verification, push-button
IOG has released open-source Lean 4 tooling that formally verifies Cardano smart contracts and finds exploits on its own — it caught a double-satisfaction bug in a public CTF contract.
Midnight Updates31 Mar 2026
Midnight Goes Live: What It Means for Cardano
Midnight has launched its mainnet with federated node operators including Google Cloud and MoneyGram. We look at what this means for Cardano SPOs and when decentralised validation opens up.
Cardano Updates14 Mar 2026
Teaching AI to Write Smart Contracts: Open-Source Agent Skills for Cardano and Midnight
We built two open-source agent skills that give AI coding assistants deep, compiler-validated knowledge of Aiken (Cardano) and Compact (Midnight) smart contract development.
Cardano Updates8 Mar 2026
Dingo: Why Node Diversity Matters for Cardano
ADAvault supports the Dingo treasury proposal to build a Go implementation of the Cardano node. Node diversity is critical infrastructure for network resilience.
Cardano Updates13 Feb 2026
USDCx Comes to Cardano
Charles Hoskinson has confirmed that USDCx, Circle's privacy-enhanced stablecoin, will launch on Cardano by the end of February. Here's why this is a game-changer for the ecosystem.
Site Announcements10 Feb 2026
Cardano Node 10.5.4
All ADAvault nodes and relays have been upgraded to Cardano Node 10.5.4 across all environments.
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