Goals of Heimdall:

• Everyone should have the opportunity to operate a stake pool.
• Maintaining a stake pool should be as easy as possible. Things that can be automated should be automated.
• Operating system independent creation of stake pools.
• Discussion base to find the optimal configuration and to collect knowledge.

If you already have one and just want to operate it, you can skip this step.

1. Install Docker https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/
2. Create creator docker image ./make-creator.sh. You only need to run this script when you change something at the creator (e.g. updating the repository).
3. Create stake pool with ./create-stakepool.sh. The script will guide you through the process to define the stake pool configuration. The created stake pool will be stored under stakepools/stakepool-<TICKER>.
4. Upload to the incentivized-testnet-stakepool registry. There you need to add the created dictionary under stakepools/stakepool-<TICKER>/registry/ and create a pull request.

After you created a stakepool you can also operate it with Heimdall.

1. Install docker-compose (https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/)
2. Build the operator docker image with cd stakepools/stakepool-<TICKER> && ./build-operator.sh
3. Replace <YOUR_DOCKER_IMAGE> in docker-compose.yaml with the name of your created docker image.
4. Start the stakepool with docker-compose up

Now the stakepool is running. You can check the status with ./jcli rest v0 node stats get --host "http://127.0.0.1:3100/api".

• How Cardano pool operator fees work

This project was heavily inspired by organicdesign.com.