Cardano stake pool · ticker BKV

Stake your ADA with a small pool that cares.

BKV is an independent Cardano stake pool, run by one person since 2021. We take a 0% margin, your ADA never leaves your wallet, and you can move it whenever you like.

How to stake with BKV New to Cardano? Start here
  • 0% margin
  • 55 delegators
  • 165 blocks made
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The pool today

BKV at a glance

Ticker BKV
Margin 0% we keep no percentage
Fixed cost 170 ₳ per epoch, the network minimum
Live stake 150,175 ₳
Delegators 55
Pledge 22,678 ₳ promised 20,000 ₳
Blocks made 165
Saturation 0.19% lots of room to grow
Relays 2 online
Check us yourself CardanoScan AdaStat PoolTool Updated 2026-10-23 07:08 UTC, straight from the Cardano blockchain.

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How to stake your ADA with BKV

Staking on Cardano is safe and simple. Your coins stay in your own wallet the whole time. You only tell the network which pool you support.

  1. Open your Cardano wallet

    Any good wallet works: Eternl, Lace, Yoroi, Vespr, or a Ledger or Trezor through one of them.

  2. Find the pool BKV

    Go to the staking or delegation page and search for the ticker BKV, or paste our pool ID:

    pool19zhl50qqzpfvvhdytqg6qx0cthummjyunfyvkfqx9uxrsp7k8ek

  3. Confirm, and that is it

    The first time, Cardano asks for a 2 ADA deposit, which you get back if you ever stop staking. The fee is about 0.2 ADA. Your first rewards arrive after about 15 to 20 days, then every 5 days.

Want the full picture first? Read What is Cardano staking?

Why people choose us

A pool you can actually talk to

01

0% margin

We take only the fixed fee the network requires. Everything else goes to you.

02

Two countries, three nodes

Relays in Finland and Poland keep the pool online, even if one place has a bad day.

03

We vote

Alex is also a Cardano DRep and votes on every treasury proposal, with a short public reason.

04

Nothing hidden

Our servers have a public live dashboard. You can see what we see.

Under the hood

Our infrastructure

Three Cardano nodes on fast, dedicated hardware in two countries.

Makes the blocks

Block producer

Finland

Server
Dedicated bare metal
CPU
AMD Ryzen 5 3600, 6 cores / 12 threads
Memory
64 GB RAM
Storage
3 × 512 GB NVMe in RAID 5
Network
1 Gbps
Node
cardano-node 11.1.3
Talks to the world

Relay 1

Finland

Server
Dedicated bare metal, isolated container
Address
relay.bkvpool.com
Network
1 Gbps
Node
cardano-node 11.1.3
Talks to the world

Relay 2

Poland

Server
Our own hardware, office server
CPU
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, 8 cores / 16 threads
Memory
32 GB RAM
Storage
1.5 TB NVMe
Address
45.155.149.185
Network
1 Gbps
Node
cardano-node 11.1.3

The block producer only talks to our own two relays, so it is never exposed to the open internet. All three nodes run the same, current cardano-node release. Last checked October 2026.

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Governance

Give your vote to someone who uses it

Since the end of 2024, every ADA holder has a say in how Cardano spends its treasury. If you do not have time to read every proposal, you can delegate your voting power to a DRep. It costs nothing, and your ADA stays yours.

Meet our DRep, Alex BKV

A side project

Burn unwanted tokens

Got spam tokens or NFTs you never asked for? burnada.org gives you a public Cardano burn address. Send them there, and they are gone for good.

Visit burnada.org