# [PAUL] Cardano With Paul 2 ☘️: fees, stake and returns

CardanoWithPaul Pool 2 🇮🇪. High spec, scalable and secure stake pool running on MS Azure Kubernetes for maximum performance and uptime.

- **Pool id:** pool14zdcvdec8qmqzsat5wg3a2h9f0u5yzrgjew534z8u3gs5durnjz
- **Status:** registered
- **Homepage:** https://www.cardanowithpaul.com
- **Operator group:** PAUL
- **Margin:** 3%
- **Fixed cost:** 340 ADA per epoch
- **Pledge:** 100,000 ADA declared, 100,250 ADA live (met)
- **Live stake:** 25,370,119 ADA
- **Active stake:** 25,130,221 ADA (0.1182% of the network)
- **Saturation:** 32.1% (saturation point 77,863,593 ADA)
- **Delegators:** 6,412
- **Blocks:** 8 in epoch 661 (expected so far 13.18), 12,485 lifetime
- **Estimated yearly return:** 1.98% (theoretical, at 100% luck)
- **Luck, recent epochs:** 104.3% of the expected blocks over 6 finished epochs (approximate: stake figure without unwithdrawn rewards)
- **Yearly return of delegators, recent epochs:** 2.05% over 6 finished epochs (not compounded)
- **Votes through DRep:** drep1y25xtvu3d0gaf6cxktr9pkfgnywmqsh4fum93s8m3hlp4aqj3uqdp
- **Relays:** 1

## Last finished epochs (6 on record, from epoch 655)
| Epoch | Blocks minted | Blocks expected | Luck | Return (yearly) | Active stake (ADA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 660 | 24 | 27 | 88.9% | 1.75% | ≈ 25,186,828 ADA |
| 659 | 19 | 27 | 70.3% | 1.35% | ≈ 25,257,106 ADA |
| 658 | 31 | 26.6 | 116.5% | 2.29% | ≈ 24,870,969 ADA |
| 657 | 21 | 26.6 | 79% | 1.53% | ≈ 24,863,423 ADA |
| 656 | 33 | 27 | 122.4% | 2.43% | ≈ 25,211,065 ADA |
| 655 | 40 | 27 | 148.3% | 2.96% | ≈ 25,229,508 ADA |
Blocks expected = 21,600 an epoch for the whole network × the pool's share of the active stake. The return is computed from the blocks minted with the ledger's reward formula unless the rewards were reported.

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As of 2026-10-14T02:56:54.770Z (UTC). Source: https://realtap.app/stake-pool/pool14zdcvdec8qmqzsat5wg3a2h9f0u5yzrgjew534z8u3gs5durnjz
JSON: https://realtap.app/api/v1/staking/pools/pool14zdcvdec8qmqzsat5wg3a2h9f0u5yzrgjew534z8u3gs5durnjz
Delegating is done by the user in their own wallet from the page above.
Compare pools and estimate rewards for an amount: https://realtap.app/stake-pools/compare?pools=pool14zdcvdec8qmqzsat5wg3a2h9f0u5yzrgjew534z8u3gs5durnjz
Units: ADA amounts are whole ADA, token amounts are decimal-adjusted, percentages are percent values, times are UTC. Cite as: "Source: Realtap (<page URL>), retrieved <asOf time>". Prices are derived from on-chain DEX pools and are not financial advice.