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Akyo

August 15, 2023 - Renewal of KES keys and operational certificates​

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KES key and operational certificate renewal completed. Operators generate KES files on a regular basis and issue operational certificates with new KES files approximately every 90 days to operate the pool. Blocks cannot be generated after expiration.

✓ Operational certificate's KES period is within the correct KES period interval
✓ The operational certificate counter ahead of the node protocol state counter by 1
{
    "qKesCurrentKesPeriod": 775,
    "qKesEndKesInterval": 837,
    "qKesKesKeyExpiry": "2023-11-15T09:44:51Z",
    "qKesMaxKESEvolutions": 62,
    "qKesNodeStateOperationalCertificateNumber": 19,
    "qKesOnDiskOperationalCertificateNumber": 20,
    "qKesRemainingSlotsInKesPeriod": 7965150,
    "qKesSlotsPerKesPeriod": 129600,
    "qKesStartKesInterval": 775
}

June 27, 2023 - Renewal of KES keys and operational certificates​

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KES key and operational certificate renewal completed. Operators generate KES files on a regular basis and issue operational certificates with new KES files approximately every 90 days to operate the pool. Blocks cannot be generated after expiration.

✓ Operational certificate's KES period is within the correct KES period interval
✓ The operational certificate counter ahead of the node protocol state counter by 1
{
    "qKesCurrentKesPeriod": 743,
    "qKesEndKesInterval": 805,
    "qKesKesKeyExpiry": "2023-09-28T09:44:51Z",
    "qKesMaxKESEvolutions": 62,
    "qKesNodeStateOperationalCertificateNumber": 18,
    "qKesOnDiskOperationalCertificateNumber": 19,
    "qKesRemainingSlotsInKesPeriod": 8023185,
    "qKesSlotsPerKesPeriod": 129600,
    "qKesStartKesInterval": 743
}

May 13, 2023 - Renewal of KES keys and operational certificates​

📓

KES key and operational certificate renewal completed. Operators generate KES files on a regular basis and issue operational certificates with new KES files approximately every 90 days to operate the pool. Blocks cannot be generated after expiration.

✓ Operational certificate's KES period is within the correct KES period interval
✓ The operational certificate counter agrees with the node protocol state counter
{
    "qKesCurrentKesPeriod": 712,
    "qKesEndKesInterval": 774,
    "qKesKesKeyExpiry": null,
    "qKesMaxKESEvolutions": 62,
    "qKesNodeStateOperationalCertificateNumber": 17,
    "qKesOnDiskOperationalCertificateNumber": 18,
    "qKesRemainingSlotsInKesPeriod": 7928106,
    "qKesSlotsPerKesPeriod": 129600,
    "qKesStartKesInterval": 712
}

· 2 min read
Akyo

August 9, 2023 - Various Settings​

AKYO Pool has set up SENDTIP and SENDSLOTS for more transparent management🧑‍💻🎉
The blue frame in the attached image is SendTip, and the yellow frame is SendSlots.
I will explain briefly. (See citation for details)

Both SendTip and SendSlots are sent to PoolTool here.

  • SendTip will turn the height of the block green (number) if the node is working properly.

    Except during maintenance and updates

  • SendSlots shows the leader (number of blocks) the stake pool was allocated in that epoch.

By all means, if you can delegate to our pool, we will be able to continue our activities in the future, so it is very encouraging!
The staking method is posted on the link below, so please access it and delegate it!

👉How to stake

sendtip-sendslots-en

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cncli.sh is a script to download and deploy CNCLI created and maintained by Andrew Westberg. It's a community-based CLI tool written in RUST for low-level cardano-node communication. Usage is optional and no script is dependent on it. The main features include:

cncli.sh
SENDTIP

Send node tip to PoolTool for network analysis and to show that your node is alive and well with a green badge.

SENDSLOTS

Securely sends PoolTool the number of slots you have assigned for an epoch and validates the correctness of your past epochs.

· 3 min read
Akyo

July 25, 2023 - Cardano Node Version Upgrade​

nodeUpgraded-8.1.2-2023-07-25

$ cardano-node version
cardano-node 8.1.2 - linux-x86_64 - ghc-8.10
git rev d2d90b48c5577b4412d5c9c9968b55f8ab4b9767
$ cardano-cli version
cardano-cli 8.1.2 - linux-x86_64 - ghc-8.10
git rev d2d90b48c5577b4412d5c9c9968b55f8ab4b9767

Cardano Node 8.1.2

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This Cardano node release is mainnet ready and updates the Plutus interpreter. All SPOs are encouraged to update, especially ones that are currently running Cardano node version 8.1.1.

Node 8.1.2 is a minor release of the Cardano node, which updates the Plutus interpreter.

Known Issues​

Please see list of 8.1.0 issues

Technical Specification​

Minimum System Requirements

  • An Intel or AMD x86 processor with two or more cores, at 1.6GHz or faster (2GHz or faster for a stake pool or relay)
  • 24GB of RAM
  • 150GB of free storage (250GB recommended for future growth)

Platforms

  • Linux 64-bit (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS; Mint 19.3, 20; Debian 10.3)
  • Windows 64-bit (8.1, 10, 11)
  • MacOS 10.13, 10.14, 10.15, 11

GHC/Cabal supported versions

  • GHC 8.10.7/Cabal 3.8.1.0

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May 14, 2023 - Cardano node version upgrade​

nodeUpgraded-8.0.0-2023-05-14

cardano-node 8.0.0 - linux-x86_64 - ghc-8.10
git rev 69a117b7be3db0f4ce6d9fc5cd4c16a2a409dcb8
cardano-cli 8.0.0 - linux-x86_64 - ghc-8.10
git rev 69a117b7be3db0f4ce6d9fc5cd4c16a2a409dcb8

Cardano Node 8.0.0

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Node 8.0.0 is a major release of the Cardano node that adds initial, experimental, support for the Conway ledger era (Protocol Version 9.0). It includes some additional CLI commands, bug fixes, and network configuration options. SPOs are recommended to deploy this version on all their nodes. This version of the Cardano node:

Introduces the Conway era (Voltaire) as a developmental hard fork. Note: the node does not have any Voltaire features yet, this just prepares the way by creating the transaction formats and providing the ability to hard fork into the era. Adds a governance action for SPO polls (cardano-cli governance poll) that the Cardano Foundation will use to conduct an SPO survey Introduces a fairness improvement into the mempool logic Adds query commands to inspect metrics and data in mempool Allows the network to be defined via CARDANO_NODE_NETWORK_ID instead of needing to be passed in every CLI query Adds more detailed output in the query tip CLI command Allows modification via configuration file of connection limits Provides versioned serialization formats for ledger Provides a ledger API Changes the tracking of deposits It also includes some bug fixes and performance improvements.

IMPORTANT: On mainnet, P2P networking is only intended to be ran on a single relay at this time. Please continue to run any other relays with P2P disabled using the legacy topology.

Please note that this version contains breaking changes

Needs newer libsodium-vrf revision dbb48cce5429cb6585c9034f002568964f1ce567

· One min read
Akyo

June 25, 2023 - System Update​

Operating System

Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS

Server
Block Producer Server

RAM : 32,768 MiB
CPU : 10
Disk : 1,024 GiB

Relay Node Server 1

RAM : 28,560 MiB
CPU : 8
Disk : 744.8 GiB

Relay Node Server 2

RAM : 24,576 MiB
CPU : 12
Disk : 960 GiB