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2024 the year of Cardano Governance

Ada North Pool, together with Ambassador Thomas Lindseth hosted one of series of workshops funded by Catalyst as part of the Nordic Community (NADA).

The event was really fun and successful in the sense that we got 14 members of the Nordic community to discuss in depth the DRep role and Code of Conduct for the Delegated Representatives (DRep’s).

You can read more about the event on the cardano forum where we also have a video recording of the workshop. https://forum.cardano.org/t/drep-code-of-conduct-workshop-in-oslo/127035

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Some updates from ANP

It has been busy months for Ada North pool. I have joined the Mithril network of signers and it might be good for delegators to know that by delegating to Ada North Pool you are also supporting this effort.

I also attended multiple workshops and held the Nordic workshop on Governance in Horten together with Kryptolabs. I attended in Edinburgh for the main workshop on CIP-1694 and I am now working on a workshop series for direct representatives (dReps) together with a talented team.

Apart from this I have been writing on governance articles (many to come) and one such coming to fruition is a provocative article on if we are currently in a centralizing corporation model and how we can move towards a digital nation model type for Cardano – see the current draft document here. Apart from that we are looking into collaborations on treasury model (together again with Thomas from kryptolabs and with Swarm). From NBX I also produced articles on governance and we voted for the minfee of 170 with pools increasing to 1000.

I also worked on an explorer for the SanchoNet and made some early guides for the testnet. I will continue to work on this in the future as well. We set up a Nordic Cardano Community called NADA and we have weekly videos as well as a whole day of workshop (Signup link) on how to run a Cardano node and be an SPO during the Oslo summit where I also will be panel leader for a governance discussion. Apart from that I have reached out and might join Gamechanger wallet for a collaborative effort in the future.

I recently joined Intersect and the Civics committee where we also will be working on more governance-related tasks and I am still preparing work for a governance book for the Cardano ecosystem. This is only some of the things I have been doing lately and I realized that it might be good to update the delegators on some of what I have been doing behind the scenes and maybe give some reasons to why to delegate to Ada North Pool.

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Blockheads episode #1

Jet lagged from my trip to the Longmont Colorado workshop in the US I did my first episode of Blockheads together with Nido and Thomas from Kryptolabs as well as Fredrik Gregard from Cardano Foundation. You can see the episode here:

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World Mobile Token Promo from valentines 2022 to 2023 ended.

We ran a World Mobile Token Promo from valentines 2022 until now Valentines 2023. The funds will run out in next epoch 394. We still love the project, and our relationship has been taken to the next level with private and public testnets and gearing up for actual launch of the blockchain to the public. You can still claim many other tokens through vending machine or Tosidrop for delegating to ANP such as Hosky tokens and BabySeal tokens. You can also gain Nunet tokens through the earndrop see https://medium.com/nunet/ntx-liquid-earndrop-with-tosidrop-a1e377732114 as ANP is one of the participating pools. (it is temporary paused but follow the blog for latest news).

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Happy new year

2022 was busy in the world of Cardano, such as attending the Cardano Oslo Summit and creating a lot of content for the Cardano ecosystem in regards to research as well as governance. In 2023 we are doing many simpler and shorter articles to go back to basics on Cardano and offer newcomers to the ecosystem something to get started with. At nbx.com where we also offer staking for adanorthpool we have written a few articles:

What is Cardano
Step-by-step guide: Stake Cardano ADA with NBX
Crypto staking: the new era of minting cryptocurrency
What is Cardano staking?
How are blocks made on the Cardano blockchain?
What are the addresses used for delegation on Cardano?
Staking: Delegation in Cardano Proof-of-Stake Model Explained

If you are Norwegian you are in luck we have all the articles in Norwegian as well:
Hva er Cardano?
Trinn-for-trinn guide: Stake Cardano ADA hos NBX
Crypto staking: den nye æraen av kryptovaluta utstedning 
Hva er addressene som brukes for å delegere for staking på Cardano?
Hvordan lages blokker på Cardano blokkjeden
Hva er Cardano staking?

As a bonus – here is my favorite video of 2022:
Governance with Dr. Mihaela Ulieru 

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New home for ANP

We now have a home also at www.nbx.com/en/anp. Norwegian Block Exchange has just implemented protocol staking on the platform and we run a single pool. If you prefer to stake on an exchange for custodial reasons such as insured funds or easy access to trading then please check out www.nbx.com/en/staking as well.

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A short look at Permissionless Clock Synchronization with Public Setup

Short (less than half hour) look at Permissionless Clock Synchronization with public setup from the IOHK library of research papers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnamQ2zFMBs

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A short video on PEReDi: Privacy-Enhanced, Regulated and Distributed Central Bank Digital Currencies

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Short video on Ofelimos

In this video I try to explain some of the concepts in the Usefull Proof of Work research paper Ofelimos.

Heads up I got the ranking blocks wrong in the start of the video and correct myself towards the end of the video.

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Short video on DREP and treasury

I made another video for the day something I have been thinking about a while – Direct representation (DREP)