This guide will walk you through the process of delegating your SPO wallet to a dRep.
Last updated
UPDATED: 1/16/2025
Tested with CLI version: 10.1.1.0
You have four delegation options:
Delegate to a dRep (dRep ID will be needed)
Always Abstain: this option signals your intention not to participate in the voting process, indicating a choice to abstain from voting
Always No Confidence: this option signifies your lack of trust in the current constitutional committee, indicating a vote of no confidence in their decisions
Delegating to a script based dRep
If you want to delegate to a dRep you will need their dRep ID:
You will probably use resources like gov.tools or tempo.vote to find a dRep and read about them. Once you are ready to select a dRep, you can copy the dRep ID
✅Make sure the dRep ID you copy is the CIP 105 one or also known as DRep ID (Legacy)
In this example we copied dRep ID:
⚠️ON AIR GAPPED MACHINE
With the dRep ID noted and copied move to your Air Gapped Machine.
Please note we keep our stake keys in the $NODE_HOME folder for this example, please change path as needed
Next generate the vote-deleg.cert running the following command
Replace drep1... on the --drep-key-hash line with your selected dRep ID.
⚠️Other Delegation options if you don't want to select a dRep:
Now we will take the "vote-deleg.cert" file and copy to a warm machine to build the transaction. In this sample we will copy all our files to $NODE_HOME directory.
We will find a UTxO (preferably with only ADA) to use to submit the transaction. Assuming you have a payment.addr file, run the following command. Otherwise swap $(cat payment.addr) with your payment address
Replace utxo on the --tx-in line with your selected utxo. Also if you don't have payment.addr file, swap $(cat payment.addr) with your payment address in the --change-address line
Copy your vote-tx.raw file over to you air gapped machine to sign. In this sample we will copy all our files to $NODE_HOME directory.
⚠️ON AIR GAPPED MACHINE
Copy the "tx.signed" file to a warm machine to submit the transaction. In this sample we will copy all our files to $NODE_HOME directory
Wait a few minutes for your transaction to make it on-chain. Then copy your stake address and go to cardanoscan.io and search it to see if your dRep delegation was registered
If you are getting errors, please double check paths. This guide was done using the typical paths and file names from the coincashew original guide.
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