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Stake Pool Fees: What are the 340 ada fee and the percentage fee? Will I be charged this fee to stake my ada?

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You are not charged this fee to stake your ada. The only fees you are charged to stake your ada are: • A transaction fee (currently around 0.17 ada) to authorize the delegation transaction. • 2 ada deposit which you can claim back if you decide to stop staking. For each 5-day epoch, rewards are distributed to all ada holders who delegate to a stake pool, p...
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What is Marlowe?

Morgan
Marlowe is a complete set of open source tools for developers to easily create, test, and deploy smart contracts on Cardano in a variety of programming languages. Marlowe offers developers intuitive solutions to create, use, and monetize secure smart contracts with ease – regardless of their expertise in software development.
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What is the Marlowe CLI tool?

Olga Hryniuk
Marlowe CLI is a command line tool that provides access to Marlowe capabilities on testnet environments and mainnet. It is specifically built for running Marlowe contracts directly without needing a web browser or mobile app. Just as the cardano-cli tool enables plain transactions, simple scripts, and Plutus scripts, the Marlowe CLI tool facilitates the abi...
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What is the Marlowe Pioneer program?

Olga Hryniuk
The Marlowe Pioneer program trains developers and anyone interested in how to write smart contracts using the Marlowe tools. The program has offered courses on building, simulating, analyzing and running smart contracts using Marlowe. The course has involved weekly videos, exercises, Q\&A sessions, and access to the course creators and key experts in the fie...
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How is Marlowe different from Plutus?

Olga Hryniuk
Marlowe and Plutus are both languages for writing smart contracts on the Cardano blockchain.  Plutus is a general purpose language that can handle any type of logic, and is intended for developers who are familiar with the Haskell functional programming language.  Marlowe, on the other hand, is a Plutus-based domain-specific language. The Marlowe language ...
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How to get started with Marlowe?

Olga Hryniuk
Marlowe offers the following resources to help you get started. If you are already familiar with the Marlowe environment, take a look at the following: Learn how to write and deploy smart contracts with Marlowe from basics to production by going through the tutorial concepts, guides, playbooks, and videos here.  Find out more about the Marlowe Playground. ...
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What is Marlowe Runtime?

Olga Hryniuk
Marlowe Runtime is the application backend for managing Marlowe contracts on the Cardano blockchain. It provides easy-to-use, higher-level APIs and complete backend services that enable developers to build and deploy enterprise and Web3 DApp solutions using Marlowe, but without having to assemble the ‘plumbing’ that manually orchestrates a backend workflow f...
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What languages does Marlowe support?

Olga Hryniuk
Marlowe supports the Marlowe language, built on top of Plutus. It also supports Haskell, JavaScript, and TypeScript.  Additionally, Marlowe supports Blockly, a visual drag-and-drop programming tool.
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How are Marlowe contracts special?

Morgan
Marlowe is based on original, peer-reviewed research conducted by the Marlowe team, initially at the University of Kent supported by a research grant from Input Output Global (IOG), and latterly by an internal engineering team. Marlowe is also a joint collaboration with Wyoming Advanced Blockchain R\&D Laboratory (WABL) at the University of Wyoming. A Marlo...
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What is the Marlowe Playground?

Morgan
The Marlowe Playground is a testing platform where developers can experiment with Marlowe contracts, including development, simulation, and testing. Marlowe contracts can be written in JavaScript or Haskell. The Playground also offers Blockly, a visual drag-and-drop programming tool.
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What is the Plutus Pioneer program?

Morgan
The Plutus Pioneer program is a scheme to recruit and train developers to write smart contracts in Plutus on Cardano. Recruits are given access to courses about the principles of coding in both Haskell and Plutus. The course is highly interactive, with weekly videos, exercises, and Q\&A sessions, along with exclusive access to Plutus creators and experts. Th...
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Should I get a hardware wallet?

OYSTR Pool - Cardano Stake Pool Wales
If you're wondering whether you need a hardware wallet, the answer is probably yes. If you have an amount of cryptocurrency that you worry about losing, you should probably get one. Using a Cardano wallet interface such as Yoroi, Daedalus, Flint, Eternl, etc. without a hardware wallet means that the cryptographic keys to your on-chain wallet are stored on y...
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What happens when I move to a new stake pool? Will I lose rewards?

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The switchover is seamless when you move from one stake pool to another and you will continue to receive staking rewards from your current pool until you start receiving rewards from your new stake pool. Every 5 days there is a stake snapshot on the boundary of each epoch. Your staked ada will be active in your new stake pool after two epoch boundaries and y...
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My light wallet is showing an incorrect balance or says I'm not delegated to a Stake Pool

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Cardano light wallets such as Yoroi, Eternl, Flint, Typhon, and others rely on servers to keep the blockchain information up to date. If you notice incorrect balances in your wallets, if your wallet says you are not delegated to a stake pool, or if you have some other issue, it may just be that the servers behind the wallet are experiencing sync issues. Thi...
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What is a spending password and what should I do if I've forgotten it?

OYSTR Pool - Cardano Stake Pool Wales
When setting up your hot wallet, i.e. a wallet that is not using a hardware wallet, you are prompted to choose a spending password. This spending password is used to encrypt your wallet keys which are stored on your device. Your spending password is the only thing protecting the keys to your wallet so it's important that you choose a secure password. If you...
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I've lost the seed or recovery phrase for my wallet, what can I do?

OYSTR Pool - Cardano Stake Pool Wales
Your seed phrase is the list of words, normally 15 or 24, that you are prompted to write down when you create a wallet using a wallet interface such as Eternl, Yoroi, Daedalus, Flint etc. This list of words should be stored very securely, preferably in more than one location, on paper or maybe even punched into a metal sheet and stored in a secret location. ...
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How can I delegate to more than one Stake Pool?

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There are a a few reasons you may want to split your ada delegation between multiple stake pools. For example, to participate in multiple ISPOs, or you feel ethically aligned with more than one stake pool. Currently there are two ways you can split your delegation. Create new wallets This option is pretty straightforward and you will be familiar with this ...
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Is my ada safe when staking?

OYSTR Pool - Cardano Stake Pool Wales
This is a common question from people who are new to Cardano, who are familiar with staking on other blockchains, or who are moving their funds from an exchange to a self-custodial wallet such as Daedalus, Eternl, Flint, Typhon, Yoroi, and others. As Cardano is a proof of stake (PoS) blockchain, it relies on holders delegating their ada to stake pools to s...
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