Leader Log Scripts

Scripts for stake pool owners to check when their pool is scheduled for the slot leadership

Leader Log scripts were developed by papacarp from pooltool.io. For full details of the scripts see pooltool.io public github

The scripts allow stake pool owners to check when their pool is scheduled for the slot leadership. The steps below cover the following.

All steps are required to be run on your Block Producer node

Installation

Below guide is for Ubuntu 20.04.

Update and add ppa package:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa

Update, install python and pip:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y python3.9
sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip

Check version of the scripts:

Python output Python 3.8.5

PIP output pip 20.0.2 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip (python 3.8)

Install python package pytz:

Download scripts

Download getSigma.py and leaderLogs.pyscripts from github:

Example uses $NODE_HOME as the location of the Cardano node folder

Executing scripts

Create Cardano ledger state:

This may take a minute and create ledger-state.json inside your $NODE_HOME

Using your Pool ID and ledger-state.json execute getSigma script:

If you do not know your pool id you can find this in any of the staking pool sites (adapools.org, pooltool.io or cardanoscan.io). Example below from pooltool.io

This will output your Sigma value for the next steps

building active stake

Sigma: 6.970276119270975e-05

Run leaderLogs.py with following parameters.

Below summary of arguments for full details see the pooltool.io github. Some of these are optional arguments but included in the example as these are what I use.

  • --vrf-skey path to the pool vrf.skey file.

  • --sigma value from the previous command

  • --pool-id stake pool id

  • --epoch the epoch your running this for. In this case 223

  • --epoch-nonce epoch 223 nonce (different value of each epoch). This can be found here.

  • -bft show potential blocks you would have had if Cardano was full decentralised.

  • --tz set the timezone of your location. Run command below to see list of timezones

Execute leaderLogs.py:

If are scheduled for slot leadership then you should see output similar to this:

Security: It is responsibility of the operator to protect and secure the stake pool. Consider what you share with others. The Basics

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