Epoch 634 has ended.
We registered two lost slot battles; 81 of 83 blocks made it on chain and pool performance was 121%! 🚀
Big thanks to all delegators 🙏🏻
It's donation time again! 💸
Every month we donate 20-30% of the pool income to our mission for a cleaner and greener planet 🌍🌳
This month we have donated 75 EUR + an additional 50 EUR to reforestation and cleanup!
🔗 Check our donation record on 👇
https://t.co/2lns3w0zjg
@TapTools We can’t let this happen!
If you guys need support I’m happy to offer it;
I have some extra capacity on my infra and I have technical knowledge as well.
Just let me know how I can assist 🙏🏻
The leaderlog for epoch 635 is here. We have an active stake of 67.37M $ADA with 88 blocks assigned! 🤩
Luck 🍀 at 131%!
Join us in our mission for a cleaner and greener planet 🌍🌳
We donate 20-30% of the pool income to reforestation, plastic cleanup and ocean conservation! 🙏
DReps, delegators, and the community: One final reminder that voting for the revised @CardanoSummit 2026 proposal closes this evening.
Whatever the outcome, we will respect the decision of the community, but we sincerely hope that together, we can make it happen.
If you haven’t voted yet, cast your vote here today: https://t.co/vuaJvqn4O4
The leaderlog for epoch 634 is here. We have an active stake of 67.34M $ADA with 83 blocks assigned! 🤩
Luck 🍀 at 124%!
Join us in our mission for a cleaner and greener planet 🌍🌳
We donate 20-30% of the pool income to reforestation, plastic cleanup and ocean conservation! 🙏
Block number 9000 is a fact! 🎉🍾
A big thanks to all of you who are delegated to the pool and have supported me on this journey! 🥰
Next stop: 10K blocks 💪🏻
After reflecting deeply on this governance process, a few things are clearer to me than ever.
Cardano is alive. The community is engaged. And that matters more than any single vote.
But this process has shown me something important: Cardano's governance is real. You are not passive holders. You are owners. That is exactly what we built this for.
It has also reminded me that when Cardano has needed it most, the Pentad delivered. IOG, EMURGO, the Cardano Foundation, Midnight Foundation, and Intersect have proven they can coordinate and bring critical integrations to life when the ecosystem needed it. That coordination layer matters now more than ever.
So let me show up the way I should.
I will be in Singapore for the Cardano Summit and I will be on stage. I am also personally committing to partially top up our Token2049 sponsorship to Title level. Being on that main stage is where Cardano and Midnight need to be heard.
To the Pentad, I am inviting all of you to sit down and have a real conversation about the future of governance and how we formalise this coordination going forward.
I am 100% focused on Cardano and Midnight. Always have been. Let me prove it. #strongertogether
The leaderlog for epoch 633 is here. We have an active stake of 67.29M $ADA with 64 blocks assigned. 😀
Luck 🍀 at 95%.
Join us in our mission for a cleaner and greener planet 🌍🌳
We donate 20-30% of the pool income to reforestation, plastic cleanup and ocean conservation! 🙏
Attention SPOs!!! We need you to update to 11.0.1. It has better performance, is hard fork ready and reduces chances of forks from larger blocks! Let's go folks! While there's still downstream tooling integrating, none of that affects block producers. Thanks all!!!
Epoch 631 has ended.
We registered six slot battles, four lost and two won. 67 of 71 blocks made it on chain.
Thanks to all delegators for supporting the pool! 🙏🏻
The leaderlog for epoch 632 is here. We have an active stake of 67.29M $ADA with 72 blocks assigned! 🤩
Luck 🍀 at 107%!
Join us in our mission for a cleaner and greener planet 🌍🌳
We donate 20-30% of the pool income to reforestation, plastic cleanup and ocean conservation! 🙏
Epoch 630 has ended.
We registered two slot battles, one lost and one won. 66 of 67 blocks made it on chain.
Thank you all delegators for your support!
A journalist spent $11,000 on a forgotten island nobody wanted.
Everyone thought he was insane.
Brendon Grimshaw walked away from a newsroom career in Yorkshire, signed the papers four minutes before midnight on the last night of his Seychelles holiday, and inherited a dead patch of land called Moyenne.
The place was a wasteland. Coconuts so tangled they couldn't even fall to the ground. No wildlife worth mentioning. Just silence.
So he got to work.
Alongside his friend René Lafortune, Brendon spent the next 39 years planting trees one by one. By hand. No machines. No crew. Just two men and a vision.
16,000 trees later, Moyenne looked nothing like the barren rock he'd bought.
Then came the animals. He reintroduced more than 120 giant Aldabra tortoises, a species teetering on extinction. Around 2,000 new birds found their way back to the island. Today, two-thirds of all the fauna in the Seychelles call Moyenne home.
Word got out. Tourism exploded across the region in the 80s, and developers came knocking.
A Saudi prince reportedly slid $50 million across the table for the island.
Brendon said no.
"I don't want the island to become a favorite vacation spot for the rich," he said. "Better let it be a national park that everyone can enjoy."
In 2008, that's exactly what happened. Moyenne became the smallest national park on Earth.
Lafortune died in 2007. Brendon stayed on the island until his own death in 2012. He's buried there, next to his father, surrounded by every tree he ever planted.
He took a dead island and gave it back to the world.
Source: BBC / Silverback Digest / Story Seychelles
The leaderlog for epoch 631 is here. We have an active stake of 67.18M $ADA with 71 blocks assigned! 🤩
Luck 🍀 at 105%!
Join us in our mission for a cleaner and greener planet 🌍🌳
We donate 20-30% of the pool income to reforestation, plastic cleanup and ocean conservation! 🙏
All our mainnet nodes have now been upgraded to cardano-node 11.0.1 and the first block on V11 has been produced.
We’re ready for the Van Rossem hard fork!