Stakepool Taskforce and Staking

hi everybody Charles here let me see if I can get my camera angle just a little bit better maybe that works okay just want to make a quick video to talk about the upcoming staking test net so we've been working really hard at trying to get everything ready for you guys to start playing around and testing registration of a Stak pool and the delegation mechanics so the roll out of this is going to be basically we start with a command line client and then we move from the command line client to eventually full guey and then we take those Innovations and we kind of roll them up into let me just close slack real quick so you don't keep hearing that or maybe slack doesn't want to close okay all right so we'll just we'll just roll that out gradually so we start with a command line client we go to a guy and then eventually once it reaches a certain threshold of quality that'll roll into main net so the point of this video is to discuss the logistics behind actually explaining how delegation staking and these things work with cardono it's a totally new protocol we don't have bonding we don't have this craziness that Casper has and we don't do things like NXT does we do things differently it's not to say their things are bad and ours are good it's just it's a different type of protocol and what we've noticed is that the same types of questions tend to get asked over and over and over again and that same types of concerns tend to be brought up and it really makes no sense for us to try to answer them again and again it makes a lot more sense for us to try to consolidate into a single location as much information as possible for people to self-explain and get an understanding of how these things are working so anyway how we're going to do that is we're going to create a task force of the community and anybody can join that and basically the first step will be just to give people an opportunity to list all the questions and comments and concerns and then we hope that the task force can elect somebody or a group of people from within to act as a filter unifier and kind of a an aggregator of all these questions then what I can do is instruct my people to go through and answer all those questions in a very systematic way and then we can even eventually create infographics and other materials so we can kind of create a handbook and say this is how staking Works we have a pretty in-depth description of it with the specifications we had the workshop in Berlin and the output of this Workshop will be probably in the next week to two weeks a completion of the Leer spec and the delegation spec and at that point they'll be publicly released so we have a very formal rigorous mathematical description of how staking works but this is not consumable by the general public so our hope is to work with you guys to basically create some content that everyday people can understand about what is registration what is the Stak pool how does staking work and some of the Dynamics behind behind or AB us so in the description of this video after I get done shooting the video I'll post the registration form if you guys are interested fill out the form and basically that allows us to aggregate everybody together and then we'll try to decide what communication medium makes the most sense to put everybody into one option would be telegram another option would be a slack channel but regardless of what format we choose we'll try to get everybody into one place and then the first step will be for that group to nominate some people people who are responsible for aggregation and then it's just a feedback loop of gathering as many questions as possible about the staking process and then we can go to the business of answering those questions second if you are interested in running a Stak pool or playing around with the test net when it becomes available very soon then please do fill out this form as well because what we're going to try to do is roll over that group or at least some subset of that group to the test net and start getting some real data the registration the delegation mechanics and so forth so so anyway that's that's where we're at there in terms of how we will go from the test net to a production system there are two competing repos that are both working with independent teams and it's a sudden death criteria so basically the wallet backend for cardano the what we released in 1.4 is being decoupled from cardano and it's in its own repo the cardano wallet repo and once that decoupling is done we'll be in a position where we can connect that to either the Rus code or to the new hasal code that we've been writing so U throughout the next weeks to months we're going to be connecting the rust code and connecting the new hll code to that wallet backend and whichever one is done first will end up becoming the first release of Shelly it looks the rust code is a little ahead of the Haso code in terms of our ability to run a test net so that's probably going to be the re and the code base that we use for the for the coming Shelly test net to build up a population of steak pools so there's a series of things that have to be done to get there the obf update which is cardono 1.5 and then the cardono decopin which is 1.