# [PAUL1] Cardano With Paul ☘️: fees, stake and returns

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

- **Pool id:** pool1s6se64qce5rjjjhh6ufcdnc54p8qg78mlhjm38lymx99sqysvzx
- **Status:** registered
- **Homepage:** https://www.cardanowithpaul.com
- **Operator group:** PAUL
- **Margin:** 3%
- **Fixed cost:** 340 ADA per epoch
- **Pledge:** 100,000 ADA declared, 100,144 ADA live (met)
- **Live stake:** 51,625,827 ADA
- **Active stake:** 51,491,240 ADA (0.2422% of the network)
- **Saturation:** 65.4% (saturation point 77,863,593 ADA)
- **Delegators:** 8,299
- **Blocks:** 30 in epoch 661 (expected so far 28.14), 20,840 lifetime
- **Estimated yearly return:** 2.03% (theoretical, at 100% luck)
- **Luck, recent epochs:** 91.6% of the expected blocks over 6 finished epochs (approximate: stake figure without unwithdrawn rewards)
- **Yearly return of delegators, recent epochs:** 1.84% 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 | 48 | 55.5 | 86.4% | 1.75% | ≈ 51,810,129 ADA |
| 659 | 55 | 55.6 | 98.9% | 1.98% | ≈ 51,950,853 ADA |
| 658 | 58 | 55.9 | 103.7% | 2.08% | ≈ 52,240,042 ADA |
| 657 | 35 | 55.7 | 62.8% | 1.25% | ≈ 52,104,518 ADA |
| 656 | 64 | 55.9 | 114.4% | 2.31% | ≈ 52,326,199 ADA |
| 655 | 47 | 56.3 | 83.4% | 1.67% | ≈ 52,699,989 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 2026-10-14T02:56:22.234Z (UTC). Source: https://realtap.app/stake-pool/pool1s6se64qce5rjjjhh6ufcdnc54p8qg78mlhjm38lymx99sqysvzx
JSON: https://realtap.app/api/v1/staking/pools/pool1s6se64qce5rjjjhh6ufcdnc54p8qg78mlhjm38lymx99sqysvzx
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=pool1s6se64qce5rjjjhh6ufcdnc54p8qg78mlhjm38lymx99sqysvzx
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.