Cardano stake pool · CBH
Earn staking rewards without giving up control
CBH is an independent Cardano stake pool, run on our own servers in a German data centre since February 2021. Low fees and verifiable performance: every figure on this site comes from public on-chain data, readable by anyone on the Cardano blockchain.
Ticker CBH
Pool ID
pool1cspe7naf0mtntwyysqxk6czah3jlh6v4cja8pdfju932yxsehnm
since Feb 2021
Live stake
4.8M ₳
Delegators
493
Blocks lifetime
2,892
ROA (lifetime)
2.81%
ROA is the return on ADA: what a delegator earned per year, relative to the stake they delegated.
Staking is safe by design
Delegating hands nothing over. Three assurances that hold the whole time you stake:
- Your ADA never leave your wallet, and we never get access to them.
- Nothing is locked up: your ADA stay spendable the whole time.
- Delegating is one transaction, and you can change or undo it at any time.
More on safety in the FAQ.
What your ADA could earn
Enter an amount and read what it is expected to earn per epoch (Cardano's five-day cycle), per month and per year. The projection comes from the return on ADA (ROA) this pool actually paid, and every figure is in ADA.
Staking calculator
- Rewards per epoch
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- Rewards per month
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- Rewards per year
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Based on our average ROA of 2.05% over the last 20 epochs.
Rewards vary with block luck from epoch to epoch; past performance is no guarantee of future rewards.
How staking works
Staking is how Cardano stays secure, and how holding ADA earns you rewards. It takes four steps, none of which put your funds at risk or lock them up:
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Delegate from your wallet
One transaction from your own wallet is all it takes. Your ADA never leave it: delegating points the weight of your balance at our pool, and there is no lock-up period.
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Keep full control
A delegation is a pointer, not a payment. Your keys stay yours, your ADA stay spendable at all times, and you can switch pools or stop staking whenever you like.
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The pool does the work
From here on CBH takes over: our servers validate transactions and produce blocks for the network around the clock. You do not have to run anything or even stay online.
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Earn every epoch
Rewards are paid every epoch, Cardano's five-day cycle. The first ones arrive 15 to 20 days after you delegate; after that they come automatically every 5 days and keep compounding, because paid-out rewards are staked with the rest of your balance.
New to staking? Read the step-by-step delegation guide.
The pool, epoch by epoch
Recent epochs
Luck compares the blocks the pool actually forged in an epoch with the number it was statistically expected to forge: 100% means exactly as expected, and single epochs swing widely for a small pool.
| Epoch | Blocks | Luck | ROA (annualised) |
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| 653 in progress | 3 | open | open |
| 652 | 7 | 121.94% | pending |
| 651 | 9 | 158.7% | 2.52% |
| 650 | 2 | 34.22% | 0.42% |
| 649 | 5 | 86.36% | 1.58% |
| 648 | 4 | 70.3% | 1.24% |
| 647 | 8 | 133.58% | 2.61% |
| 646 | 5 | 85.03% | 1.55% |
| 645 | 10 | 168.02% | 3.31% |
| 644 | 4 | 68.14% | 1.21% |
- well below expectation
- below expectation
- as expected
- above expectation
- far above expectation: at least 200% with 2 or more blocks
Current epoch
653
Time remaining
1d 17h 0m 22s
One epoch is Cardano's unit of time: five days in which stake is measured, blocks are produced and rewards are paid.
Why stake with CBH
Low fees
Every pool charges a margin, the share of each epoch's rewards it keeps, on top of a fixed cost that covers running the servers. CBH charges a margin of 1% on top of a fixed cost of 170 ₳ per epoch; everything else goes to the delegators. Both are registered on chain, where anyone can verify them.
Proven performance
Over its lifetime CBH returned 2.81% per year on the ADA staked with it. It forged 103.7% of the blocks it was expected to forge. Every figure is computed from on-chain data. See the full picture on the pool statistics page.
Here since Feb 2021
CBH has been forging blocks since February 2021. It stands behind its own pool: a pledge (the pool's own ADA, staked under the same rules as yours) of 50,000 ₳ is committed on chain. Delegating stays non-custodial: your ADA never leave your wallet, and you can move or re-delegate them at any time.
Runs on our own infrastructure
Four machines run this pool in one data centre, each behind its own firewall: two redundant relays (the pool's public-facing servers), the block producer (the machine that forges and signs our blocks) and the 24/7 monitoring host that watches every one of them. Only the relays connect to the Cardano network, and the block producer is reachable only through the relays, never exposed to the open internet; if one relay goes down, the other keeps the pool connected.
CBH has been producing blocks since February 2021, on bare metal (dedicated physical servers, not shared virtual machines) in a German data centre in Nuremberg, deliberately not in a hyperscaler cloud, one of the big rented cloud platforms, so the machines stay under direct control. The operation is climate neutral, and every block and every fee can be verified on chain, by anyone, at any time.
See how the four machines are wired
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Location
Nuremberg, Germany
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Servers
At least 4 cores and 32 GB RAM each
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Monitoring
24/7 via Grafana
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Operation
Climate neutral
Ready to put your ADA to work?
Delegating takes about two minutes and a single transaction. Any amount works, nothing is locked up, and your balance is never at risk: your ADA never leave your wallet, and you can change your mind at any time.