What you will learn:

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• Introduction to the Stake Pool Initiative

  • Welcome

  • Goals

  • Course overview

• Introduction to Cardano

  • Ouroboros Protocol (7 min read)

  • Blockchain

  • Proof of Stake

  • Decentralization

  • Delegation

  • Stake Pools

  • Rewards

• Setting up your system

  • Virtual Box

  • AWS

• Setting up a Node

  • Installing tools

  • Building the node

  • Running the node

• My first transaction

  • UTxO model

  • Payment keys and addresses

  • Using the faucet

  • Fees, creating and submitting the transaction

• Stake Addresses and Delegation

  • Stake keys

  • Stake addresses

  • Registering a stake address

  • Delegating to a pool

• My own Stake Pool

  • Topology

  • Key evolving signatures

  • Metadata

  • Pool registration

  • Pledge

• Stake pool Maintenance

  • Renewing KES keys

  • Updating pool registration

  • Retiring a pool

  • Monitoring

  • Checking rewards

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