Ouroboros Peras aims to settle Cardano transactions in about two minutes, not hours.

What it is, where it sits on the roadmap, how it compares with other chains, and what it would have meant during the November 2025 chain split:
pool.fluid7.com/blog/ouroboros…

Staking pays about 2% wherever you go, so the numbers won't pick your pool. They'll rule pools out: pledge met, not saturated, sensible fee, blocks made.

Ten minutes on pool.pm and Koios, then pick on what the operator does with your stake.
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It was quite a rush!

FLUID minted 3 blocks in epoch 662, taking us to #167!
With ~443k ADA staked we'd expect ~0.45 blocks an epoch, so that's nearly 7x our share, a 1-in-90 shot. Luck evens out, we'll take it. Thanks, delegators!
Cardano help, Fridays 9:10 UTC: discord.gg/XpZUJZx9 #Cardano

New on the blog: Bitcoin DeFi on Cardano. What is actually live, what is still a demo, and what the 2026 treasury vote decided.

Short version: the voters funded the plumbing and turned down the headline product.

pool.fluid7.com/blog/bitcoin-d…

FLUID just minted 2 blocks, taking us to #164 on Cardano.
Every block is minted on stake our delegators trusted us with - thank you.
Join us on Discord/Zoom live from 9:10 UTC on Fridays if you need any general Cardano help!
discord.gg/MvpTxHkj #Cardano

Are we sure raising k won't help?

A pool needs about 3M ADA staked before it mints blocks reliably. 2,144 pools sit below that line.

Raising k to 1,000 halves the saturation point. Would the stake actually move?

Our guide to the numbers: pool.fluid7.com/blog/is-runnin…

FLUID just minted block #162 on Cardano.
Every block is minted on stake our delegators trusted us with - thank you.
Join us on Discord/Zoom live from 9:10 UTC on Fridays if you need any general Cardano help!
discord.gg/tftCnkvD #Cardano

Welcome to our shiniest newest delegator!
Join us on Discord/Zoom live from 9:10 UTC on Fridays if you need any general Cardano help!
discord.gg/ZH8VZahy #Cardano

On Cardano a healthy pool pays about the same wherever you stake. So the real question isn't the % - it's who you back with it.

FLUID: independent since 2021, rewards pointed back into the ecosystem - SPO Academy, Catalyst, dRep.

Search FLUID in your wallet
x.com/FLUID7/status/…

FLUID just minted block #161 on Cardano.
Every block is minted on stake our delegators trusted us with - thank you.
Join us on Discord/Zoom live from 9:10 UTC on Fridays if you need any general Cardano help!
discord.gg/t6wTq7a7 #Cardano

Five years of running FLUID Pool
In that time: a Mithril signer, a dRep, a Catalyst-funded SPO Academy, and more KES rotations than I care to count.
Still independent. Still a one-operator pool.

Thanks to everyone delegating. Seconds away ... Year six!

FLUID just minted block #160 on Cardano.
Every block is minted on stake our delegators trusted us with - thank you.
Join us on Discord/Zoom live from 9:10 UTC on Fridays if you need any general Cardano help!
discord.gg/XCkseRyr #Cardano

Welcome to our shiniest newest delegator!
Join us on Discord/Zoom live from 9:10 UTC on Fridays if you need any general Cardano help!
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Epic! 👏👏

Vibes

If you haven't used the @realfi_co testnet yet, you have just 15 more days to earn your R-POINTS!
Also stake to FLUID Pool for passive R-POINTS rewards

Seems more like a system to increase fear and exercise power.

A good month at Fluid pool so far... Welcome to the pool!
Join our weekly Cardano Q&A call on Fridays 9:10 UTC
fluid7.com/cardanoqa

Woot! Congrats 🥳

Earn 10,000 R-Points on the RealFi testnet - I walk you through every step.

Wallet setup, test funds, then swap / stake / unstake / claim USDR: the 10 Pioneer Season quests, done with you.

Built on Cardano. ~13 mins.

▶️ youtu.be/gYOSwWFVxXg

Follow along as we work through the reward challenges on RealFi testnet - at least 10,000 POINTS up for grabs. More if you stake to FLUID Pool
preprod.realfi.co/join/9EbmBHq1Q…

youtu.be/gYOSwWFVxXg?si…

It's close though .. I can feel it!

I love seeing delegators increase their ADA holdings at these prices. FLUID pool is here, still minting. Anyone considering where to re-stake following the recent Yoroi/SecondFi shenanigans, or because their operator has had to close recently, please consider staking with FLUID. legators.

As SPOs we keep the blocks, chaining.
Stakers please use your stake wisely.
Now more than ever it is evident that Cardano's long running small pools are here on principal.. reward them.

Infrastructure Innovations like Leios, Mithril, Bifrost, Dingo, Blockfrost etc. rely on SPO nt.
@ch1bo_ @IOHKengineering @FluidTokens @lantr_io @pragma_org @blinklabs_io @blockfrost_io

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@FluidTokens @lantr_io❤️‍🔥

It's exhausting .. so many cheerful, energetic, excited, beautiful people

midnight-expert uses midnight-expert to update midnight-expert!

Fireside Dev Hang: Building with Midnight Expert
youtube.com/live/PEs34jDCS… @sabrinaliuuuu @LoLoCoding @aaronbassett

If you care about the health of the Cardano network, there are some really good talking points in here. Tx all involved.
youtube.com/watch?v=bpCmFA…

Da bomb!

I just picked me up another full pack of KES health for FLUID Pool 💓🩺

This is well worth participating in. Selectively private transactions are the missing link between business and blockchain adoption.
This was a good conversation to get the ideas flowing... youtube.com/watch?v=fKArPB…

Soon Regulators be like ...
They only come out on Midnight!
@MidnightNtwrk
youtube.com/watch?v=DxwrH7…

This is FLUID Pool Block #150, there are many like it, but this one is mine. I love my Haskell blocks, but must say I am very excited by the thought of Dingo blocks joining the chain! Congrats @blinklabs_io 🐶🧱⛓️

1/ Voted YES on Dingo - a production-grade Go node implementation for Cardano. This isn't theoretical. Here's why node diversity matters.

Welcome to our shiniest newest delegator!
Join us on Discord/Zoom live from 9:10 UTC on Fridays if you need any general Cardano help!
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#Cardano

In 25 mins ... youtube.com/watch?app=desk…

Uh oh .. test dna for political leanings!

🔥

I love the pig n all, but I'm really looking forward to seeing real privacy apps deploy to Midnight City for the agents to play with. Real utility (reality?!?) sim'd for us.

This is Jack Killian, the Nighthawk, on KJCM, 98.3 closing out with The Night Begins To Shine by B.E.R - Good night, America, wherever you are. youtu.be/I4yye8mUzWg?si…
@MidnightNtwrk #MidnightCity #Nightforce

I want to thank God, my wife and my kids, my first year primary school teacher, Mrs Stewart and my sister's first pet hamster ...

Cross wireless protocol comms kinda blowing my mind
youtube.com/watch?v=XTnYVh…

🔴 Introducing Hal 9026 – my AI assistant now helping with @FLUID7 updates.

Hal drafts, I approve. Experimenting with more frequent, higher quality content.

Fitting, since today's Cardano Q&A was all about AI tools. Here's the recap 👇

I played with Midnight and I liked it🌘
youtube.com/live/1GxFy384j…

Essential viewing.. youtu.be/LAh8HryVaeY?si…

FLUID Pool has updated all mainnet nodes to 10.5.3 and will have testnet nodes rebuilt by tomorrow.

A sensible video highlighting the dangers of Government issued Digital ID

We are ALL In Danger! youtu.be/fufnzxyv2Ps?si… via @YouTube

134th block from FLUID pool as we enter our 5th year serving the chain!

KES Keys Rotated! 🫡

See all the infrastructure FLUID Pool is supporting?
- Cardano Mainnet & Preview
- Mithril Signer
- @blockfrost_io Icebreaker API
- @MidnightNtwrk Testnet Validator
- @orcfax Validator
- @CornucopiasGame File Node Pool
+ @nunet_global is underway!

Welcome to our shiniest newest delegator!
Join us on Discord/Zoom live from 9:10 UTC on Fridays if you need any general Cardano help!
discord.gg/B7u96B36

$STRCH ... thickening stake pools since 2024

Night token claims for air-gapped wallets
Thanks @ATADA_Stakepool for cardano-signer!
youtu.be/4Wx8kl19Biw

For anyone that still has questions about the Midnight Glacier Drop claim, I walked through claiming on a couple of chains as a guest on Luca's Crypto Hour yesterday. The recording is here...
youtube.com/watch?v=0J5wXU…

Block #133 - Fluid Pool's first 💯 bare metal block

Welcome to our shiniest newest delegator!
Join us on Discord/Zoom live from 9:10 UTC on Fridays if you need any general Cardano help!
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Yup .. make sure Single Address Mode is switched off.
Then filter for "unused" addresses on the receive tab.

Our latest call with delegators is up. Cardano Q&A each Friday. All levels of questions very welcome.
youtu.be/NJpUrAYxGCA?si…

Fluid Pool is an @orcfax validator!
OrcFax isn't just another oracle - it's the ONLY oracle built by professional archivists using ISO standards. With mandatory 3-source triangulation & complete audit trails, it brings institutional-grade trust to Cardano DeFi.🔒
Stake FLUID!

I have a Grafana dashboard if anyone wants that as well.

Parameter changes to improve SPO incentives are being discussed, but what makes an SPO worthy of stake?

FLUID Pool
- 132 blocks
- 4 years running
- Mainnet, Preview, Midnight pools
- Mithril Signer
- Blockfrost Icebreaker
- OrcFax Validator
- Cornucopias File Node Pool

Updated all nodes to 10.4.1 and blocks do seem to be slipping through faster

My distro and me

Our Midnight node is minting again! ⚒️
Thanks @EnigmA_SPO 👀

Stake to FLUID pool, verify on Discord and get alerted when Strike opens up providing liquidity...

which is now by the way!

My minted block.. vs.. my wife's minty block... Hmmm 🤔

After fixing a slight hiccup during compilation for mainnet, FLUID Pool Mithril signatures are signaturing!

I promise I haven't been bullied.. it's just incidental that FLUID Pool is well on the way to being a Mithril signer. Vote FLUID!
Preview sorted, Mainnet pending!
@HephyPool

KES Keys rotated

Woot .. another block for xSPO rotating delegators!
Dear Praos,
Can we get assigned another in epoch 563?
Please and thank you.
🧱 #124 @AllianceXspo

💯 stake with Hephy pleeeease!

I'm Pedro fyi

Make a bigger impact with your stake!
pool.fluid7.com

Some days all you see is ...

Back with another one of those block rockin' beats

I could really get used to multi-block epochs. Thanks for all the new delegation! Remember you can join us live on Discord/Zoom 9:15 UTC each Friday.
discord.gg/U6Hk46gp

We all like a one to one... ladies and gentlemen may I present block #121 👃
@AllianceXspo

Block #120

I'm part of the Extra Small Stake Pool Alliance and their programme of rotating delegation. When my turn comes round I always feel ...