Site Announcements 1 Sept 2026
Preparation pays
Disaster recovery only counts if you have tested it, so we rehearse the whole failover on a quarterly cycle — and the last one found two bugs in our automated failover processes.
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Site Announcements 19 Jul 2026
van Rossem is live, and a fee update
The van Rossem hard fork is live and block production carried on uninterrupted. From 2 August, ADAvault's introductory 0% margin moves to 1% — still among the lowest fees anywhere in the ecosystem.
Site Announcements 10 Feb 2026
Cardano Node 10.5.4
All ADAvault nodes and relays have been upgraded to Cardano Node 10.5.4 across all environments.
Site Announcements 8 Feb 2026
Governance Voting Display and What's Next
Pool pages now display our governance voting record. See how ADAvault votes on protocol changes, treasury withdrawals, and other governance actions.
Site Announcements 5 Feb 2026
Wallet Integration is Live
Connect your Cardano wallet directly on adavault.com. View your delegation status, check your rewards history, and delegate to any ADAvault pool - all without leaving the site.
Site Announcements 20 Jan 2026
New ADAvault Website
We're excited to announce the launch of our completely redesigned website, built from the ground up with modern technology and a focus on performance and usability.
Site Announcements 18 Nov 2025
Cloudflare outage
A quick update on the recent Cloudflare outage which affected a large number of sites including this one. We use Cloudflare to help protect our web based...
Site Announcements 16 Jul 2025
ADV4 pledge increase
A quick update to let you know that we have increased the ADV4 pledge to ₳250k in line with the other stake pools. This pool has been under development for...
Site Announcements 28 May 2025
Cardano Ecosystem Budget
We have voted in favour of the governance action: "Cardano Blockchain Ecosystem Budget – 275M ada Administered by Intersect":...
Site Announcements 13 Apr 2025
Midnight Update
If you have been following the blog you will know that we are testing Midnight, and have been running a node on the test network. So far the experience has...
Site Announcements 24 Nov 2024
Midnight validator
We've discussed Midnight before which is a privacy focused blockchain that builds on pioneering work using zero knowledge proofs by IOG. We are pleased to say...
Site Announcements 2 Sept 2024
A new era
And just like that we are into a new era on the Cardano blockchain. As ever with Cardano a simple smooth transition, across the hard fork at approx 21:45UTC on...
Site Announcements 12 Feb 2024
Hardware upgrades
We've just completed a round of upgrades to the ADAvault hardware stack which we use to host all infrastructure we run. Compute is now based on AMD EPYC rather...
Site Announcements 24 Jun 2023
Cardano Node 8.1.1
We've recently upgraded all infrastructure to a new version of the Cardano Node which has been released, preparing for the Conway era. If you've been following...
Site Announcements 25 Aug 2022
Ready for Vasil
All ADAvault nodes have now been upgraded to 1.35.3 ready for the Vasil Hard Fork Combinator event. You can track the overall Cardano ecosystem progress...
Site Announcements 22 Aug 2022
Vasil Upgrade Status
You may have seen a few concerns on social media in the recent days about the status of the Vasil upgrade. We've been keeping our heads down as we didn't have...
Site Announcements 2 Dec 2021
Cardano360 November
Another cracking show from Tim and crew, and another welcome appearance from John Woods covering the ongoing network optimisation, along with regulars Nigel...
Site Announcements 29 Sept 2021
0% variable fee promotion
We have extended the 0% variable fee promotion for another 6 months until the end of March 2022. The ADA price has increased sufficiently to cover pool...
Site Announcements 11 Sept 2021
Poolperks
We have registered for Poolperks and if you are a delegator to one of the ADAvault pools you can claim a commemorative Alonzo era certified delegator NFT. We...
Site Announcements 4 Jun 2021
ADV2 hits 1000 blocks
The second ADAvault pool passed 1000 blocks about a week ago. In that time we have generated more than 700k₳ for our delegators, all at zero percent variable...
Site Announcements 19 Apr 2021
100% carbon neutral
We have upgraded the ADAvault power tariff from 100% renewable, to 100% carbon neutral. This includes offset schemes against the carbon cost to manufacture and...
Site Announcements 18 Apr 2021
Cardano Node 1.26.2
ADAvault nodes are now upgraded to 1.26.2, which ensures that block producing nodes do not unnecessarily re-evaluate the stake distribution at the epoch...
Site Announcements 27 Mar 2021
1000th block minted for ADV
When we first registered ADAvault on mainnet, very late in the night on the 30th July 2020, at the very beginning of the Shelley era, this seemed an almost...
Site Announcements 26 Mar 2021
Reward Sharing and Pledge
Prof. Aggelos Kiayias (Chief Scientist at IOHK) takes us through how rewards and pledging works on Cardano and why pledge matters (if you are staking with us...
Site Announcements 19 Mar 2021
Delegators to ADV4
We have consolidated ADV3 and ADV4, and will reserve ADV4 for future use. Please transfer stake to ADV3 with immediate effect. There will be no impact on...
Site Announcements 7 Mar 2021
ADAvault tokens
We have just minted 42,000,000 ADAvault tokens on mainnet. These will be used in future to represent ADAvault share capital, or some other form of stake in the...
Site Announcements 7 Mar 2021
Stake pool tuning
More tuning work over the last few days. You may have noticed we plan to spin up some more pools later in March as ADV and ADV2 are nearing saturation. The new...
Site Announcements 24 Feb 2021
Protocol update incoming
Mary is go! Just in, IOHK confirmation that Mary hard fork is confirmed for March 1st. Native tokens here we come. We are on the launchpad, t minus 5 days…
Site Announcements 24 Feb 2021
Why this isn't just another crypto project
If you've been delegating with us for a while you already know that. Worth watching in full (as ever)…
Site Announcements 22 Feb 2021
Can't argue with the numbers
All continuing in the right direction… And we noticed that today r/cardano hit 200k subscribers. As the mods noted on the post: 200,000 Cardano Subs Achieved...
Site Announcements 15 Jan 2021
First block for ADV2
A minor milestone, but an important one for our delegators to ADV2. First block minted in Epoch 241, with the another block for 242. The stake is steadily...
Site Announcements 31 Dec 2020
Pool tuning
We've been tuning the ADV and ADV2 stake pool architecture over the last few days. It has been running well since we implemented at the end of July 2020 when...
Site Announcements 5 Nov 2020
K parameter increasing
IOHK have announced that the K parameter which sets a soft cap on the total number of stake pools is increasing from Epoch 234 (Sunday 6th December) from 150...
Site Announcements 27 Sept 2020
Hello world!
Welcome to our new web site. We're investing in improving the experience of our delegators, making it easier to find information about the stake pool...