It is possible to delegate your ada coins within Cardano Shelley test-net to a pool of your preferences. Thus, you will help to decentralize the network and you will be rewarded for that. Ada coins earned in the test-net will be transferred to the main-net once it is launched.

UIX of the Daedalus wallet is great so delegation of coins is easy for everyone. It is not necessary to write a step-by-step guide for you. However, you will find a link to such a guide below in the text if you need it.

What do you need for delegation?

You need just two things:

  1. SEED of main-net wallet where you have stored ada coins at the moment of the second snapshot, that happened on the 29 of September 2019.
  2. Test-net Daedalus wallet. You can download it here:

 

 

 

Delegate your stake

 

What Is Delegation? Delegation is the process by which ada holders delegate the stake associated with their ada to a…

 

 

staking.cardano.org

 

For the operating system Windows click on the picture that is shown below:

 

 

 

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Daedalus for Windows

Download the wallet only from the official source. Check URL:

“ https://staking.cardano.org/en/delegation/”

Verify that you have downloaded the correct installation package after the download. You can do it via the Windows CertUtil tool and the command-line interface of Windows. CertUtil tool allows you to verify the hash of the downloaded package. You have to compare it with the hash that is present on the official web page. They both must be the same. The correct one is this one: