Business / Case study

Jaguares Cardano

Client: Jaguares Cardano
Year: 2020–2022
Problem: Setting up Cardano servers to run a stake pool.
Solution: We set them up first on Raspberry Pi, following the Japanese guide from SPO JAPAN GUILD, and later improved the setup by moving to VPS.
Stack: Cardano, Stake pool, Raspberry Pi, VPS

From a Raspberry Pi to my own servers

Between 2020 and 2022 we set up and ran Cardano servers. This is how it went.

Stage 1: Raspberry Pi We set up Cardano servers for a stake pool.
We set up the Cardano servers on Raspberry Pi, following the Japanese guide from SPO JAPAN GUILD, a community of stake pool operators in Japan.
What the guide teaches: a stake pool has a block-producing node (BP) that only produces blocks and connects only to its own relays. The relays are the bridge between the producer and the rest of the network: they sync and propagate blocks.

Cardano network Relay Block producer (BP)

General diagram from the guide; not the layout of our setup.
- SPO JAPAN GUILD guide (in Japanese) (opens in a new tab)
Stage 2: VPS We improved it by moving to VPS.

Later we improved it by moving to VPS: virtual servers rented from a provider, instead of physical machines of our own.
Stage 3: Servers today That is where my work with servers began.
That was the start of setting up and administering servers. Today I run servers of my own and build websites for clients; these are already published:

From 2020 to 2022 I was a Blockchain Operator at Jaguares Cardano.

We ran servers on Cardano and kept them operating. Around that, we gave talks.

We took an exhibition to ARTBO, Bogotá’s art fair. That’s where this work meets my art directly.