Spinning pools for good

This article is the result of some brainstorming, conversations with various people in the Cardano space and my attachment to good design + making the world a better place.

Cardano part

First I’ve been fascinated by the Cardano stake operators community, ISPO done by projects like MELD and the fact that you can delegate your funds to help another project without losing control over those funds and keeping 100% of it. Think of it as delegating interest on your deposit to someone else.

I’ve then met the guys from ADAhandle.com and learnt how they are going to make ADA wallet addresses human friendly, similarly to Ethereum Name Service but better :)

Society part

In every city, town, village or community you always have some people who are better off then the average and some that are at the bottom where it comes to wealth distribution. For the sake of this article I’ll use the term community.

In each community there’s someone who needs help — be it someone who found about some serious sickness they can’t afford, someone who is disabled and self-sustain, someone senior who needs a carer, etc… There’s always someone in your local area who needs help from its community.

So I thought — would it be possible to make a project where staking pools are easily spinned up via web interface by someone none-technical and linked with human friendly addresses so that it’s easy and intuitive to find them.

Staking in such pools would support the local cause and therefore unite the community around supporting its weakest members.

The ADA handle element would serve as a mapping tool to easily find the locality you are looking for similarly to how Google Maps links coordinates with places, we could use ADA handle to link places with wallet addresses.

Or am I too altruistic again? :)