Further Reading

You may find these web materials and videos useful:

• Learn about stake pools and delegating stake

• What is delegation?

• What is Ouroboros?

• Delegation defined

• What is Ouroboros?

• About Ouroboros and stake pools

• Proof of stake delegation

• Incentives in Cardano Presentation

• Understanding Incentives

• Shelley testnet tutorials

Blog posts IOHK’s researchers and engineers often post on our blog. Here are a couple of posts about stake pools and the Shelley testnet which you may find helpful:

• From Byron to Shelley: Part one, the testnets - By Kevin Hammond, software engineer at IOHK

• From Byron to Shelley: Part two, the journey to mainnet - By Kevin Hammond, software engineer at IOHK

• How Pledging will keep Cardano healthy - By Lars Brünjes, director of education at IOHK

• Architecting Shelley - An interview with Duncan Coutts, chief technical architect at IOHK

• Stake pools in Cardano - By Professor Aggelos Kiayias, chief scientist at IOHK

• What the Byron reboot means for Cardano - By Tim Harrison, director of communications at IOHK

• Ouroboros explained - By Kieran Costello, technical writer at IOHK

• Stake pools in Cardano - By Professor Aggelos Kiayias, chief scientist at IOHK

• How Cardano’s transaction fees work - By Lars Brünjes, director of education at IOHK

related links

• • Relevant Research Papers and Specifications