# [DAN] Cardano Dan's Stake Pool: fees, stake and returns

High performance & low fee pool. Run by Cardano DAN, an IT pro engaged in Cardano since 2017. For questions, find Dan on twitter or at cardanodan@protonmail.com

- **Pool id:** pool1nhls8e9swnyshldgjknku4npreax075nw0ltrkmrarh4w3skxt9
- **Status:** registered
- **Homepage:** https://twitter.com/cardanodan
- **Operator group:** DAN
- **Margin:** 2.5%
- **Fixed cost:** 340 ADA per epoch
- **Pledge:** 100,000 ADA declared, 105,183 ADA live (met)
- **Live stake:** 2,873,720 ADA
- **Active stake:** 2,906,456 ADA (0.0137% of the network)
- **Saturation:** 3.6% (saturation point 77,863,593 ADA)
- **Delegators:** 545
- **Blocks:** 0 in epoch 661 (expected so far 1.51), 4,846 lifetime
- **Estimated yearly return:** 1.25% (theoretical, at 100% luck)
- **Luck, recent epochs:** 84.6% of the expected blocks over 6 finished epochs (approximate: stake figure without unwithdrawn rewards)
- **Yearly return of delegators, recent epochs:** 1.07% over 6 finished epochs (not compounded)
- **Votes through DRep:** drep1yg343cyuckglj48a6gpcey7fkfcy5x5f9g65wme3ne9q2mgaedmkm
- **Relays:** 1

## Last finished epochs (6 on record, from epoch 655)
| Epoch | Blocks minted | Blocks expected | Luck | Return (yearly) | Active stake (ADA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 660 | 3 | 3.1 | 96.3% | 1.18% | ≈ 2,905,002 ADA |
| 659 | 4 | 3.1 | 128.7% | 1.82% | ≈ 2,904,739 ADA |
| 658 | 4 | 3.1 | 127% | 1.8% | ≈ 2,943,363 ADA |
| 657 | 3 | 3.2 | 94.4% | 1.14% | ≈ 2,974,030 ADA |
| 656 | 0 | 3.2 | 0% | 0% | ≈ 2,972,087 ADA |
| 655 | 2 | 3.2 | 62.9% | 0.49% | ≈ 2,971,788 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 2026-10-13T20:50:38.509Z (UTC). Source: https://realtap.app/stake-pool/pool1nhls8e9swnyshldgjknku4npreax075nw0ltrkmrarh4w3skxt9
JSON: https://realtap.app/api/v1/staking/pools/pool1nhls8e9swnyshldgjknku4npreax075nw0ltrkmrarh4w3skxt9
Delegating is done by the user in their own wallet from the page above.
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