About Us

Welcome to Arcadia. I have a PhD in physics with a minor in mathematics and computer science. While science is my first passion, I also am a linux systems administrator and daily use scientific computing for my research. Cryptocurrencies have been of interest to me since 2017, and I am very excited to help advance the Cardano project by setting up and running stakepools. My promise to you is that if you delegate to Arcadia, you can have peace of mind that you have delegated your stake to a pool that is watched over carefully and will reliably produce blocks for the slots it has been assigned. I have pledged my entire holdings of Ada, the Cardano cryptocurrency, to this endeavor, so I am fully dedicated to its success.

I am a long-term supporter of the Cardano financial ecosystem. I ran two very successful pools in the Incentivized Testnet (ITN) and I participated as a Pioneer in the move from the Rust-based ITN to the Haskell-based Shelley mainnet. My name is Adrian.

Our Vision and Mission

Arcadia is devoted to advancing liberty. Our vision at Arcadia is that projects like Cardano will eventually bring stable financial services to the entire world. Those who live in areas where there is little to no economic stability might finally be freed from tyrannical or corrupt centralized control of their markets and property. The rest of the world will also benefit by having the ability to trade with people and places previously inaccessible. Our hope is to see disadvantaged individuals lifted out of poverty and receive the individual liberties that will naturally follow with access to a more stable economic system. We know it's just a dream right now, but this is why we are helping to advance Cardano and other like-minded projects. If you share a similar vision, we hope you will join us and stake with Arcadia.

We want to run reliable and trusted stakepools to contribute to the decentralized nature of Cardano's Proof-of-Stake architecture. Our first priority to you, as a delegator to Arcadia, is to help you receive as many rewards as possible for participating with us in this project. So, our pools return 99% of your stake earnings to you. We want to see more freedom around the world.

Our Infrastructure

Arcadia is Built on Enterprise Infrastructure. The Arcadia stake pool server is hosted with a company that provides us with a 99.99% uptime service level agreement. If anything goes wrong at our hosting partner's data center, we have the assurance that an entire team of IT professionals will be working around the clock to fix any hardware or networking issues. In the meantime, Arcadia will continue operations with failover support from our three backup locations around the world. Our team here at Arcadia is instantly notified of any issues either with the hosting provider or with the software that constitutes the Cardano node. We are also notified electronically when there is a new release of the stakepool software. We will download, compile, and test a new release of the software for stability on our backup passive nodes for 24 hours before implementing it on our block-producing nodes.

We are currently running our active node on a system with best-in-class Intel Xeon processors and 8 GB of dedicated RAM. Once the pool's revenue can support the current operations we have plans to expand the infrastructure. More information about the expansion will be released on our news feed at the appropriate time. We demand the highest in efficiency and quality.

Checking Up on Us

Check us out on adapools.org

How Can I Know if Arcadia is Online? We recommend that you check out our pool's stats on the websites, pooltool.io or adapools.org (search ADAMS or TESLA). Both of these sites monitor our relay nodes and allow a visitor to see if our relay nodes are in sync with the blockchain. If you are a pool delegator or a website visitor and have a question for us, please connect with us using the social media links on our homepage (we are available for messaging via Telegram and Twitter) or by email using the feedback link below. We are notified immediately by instant messaging if our server goes offline. If we are experiencing extended trouble, we will post it in our site's news feed. You don't just have to take our word for it.

Feedback

Check us out on Pooltool.io

We Want to Hear From You. Do you have something on your mind? Whether it is advice, a question, a complaint, or a compliment, we want to hear it. How can we make our website better? How can we improve our staking service to you? What are we doing wrong, or what are we doing right from your perspective. We can't do anything about it if no one tells us. So, we need your feedback. We're interested in what you have to say.

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