hi this is charles hoskinson broadcasting live from my bunker in warm sunny colorado it is nine o'clock at night still haven't left the office been up since five and getting a lot done but i wanted to make this video because i just finished something very important and i wanted to congratulate the hundred pools whom have participated in our community delegation so uh not too long ago we published a blog post about our desire to support community pools and that meant that we were going to delegate 3.2 million ada to 100 pools for a total of 320 million ada currently valued at over 100 million dollars to help foster the growth of small pools so francisco and others in our organization did a phenomenal job systematically talking to many many many many many different pools and i wanted to read off and it'll take a little bit of time to do this but all 100 pools and congratulate them for being part of the first cohort we will rotate the cohorts from time to time but our hope here is that this will help encourage and diversify the small pool operators in the cardano ecosystem and 3.2 million data being delegated to as a small pool is no simple matter uh starting alphabetically at the very top uh pool number uh pull ticker and buy their ticker names because there's a hundred of them i'm not gonna give you the websites but um uh these pools know who they are uh for good adi adopt air akaba a-l-t-z a meow a-n-q-a a-n-z apollo arm one astra babel banda barry block bprl uh broada b-r-a-d-a brave buddha cards sent cherty c h r t y uh clema co2p c o s d c p l p c pool crmy1 curry dead dino dolce ebs echo eu01 fancy feel fox fruit gaia g-i-n-k-g uh gazlowe green grow gys h2o hoda heart uh h-i-m-a-l hotel husky joey kind koala kurd kyoto lick lift lug luna mds monkey moxie myth neon obs pati by my by the way my mother's name is patricia so patty there we go it's a nickname for patricia p h r c k p o a rabbit with one b r ul r-a-o-o-l rise rocky salad i should eat more of those shaw with a clover share shop smog the dragon from the hobbit smile speck squid one of my favorite games as a kid was gateways to the savage frontier and uh one of their cr one of the big enemies there were the krakens and they had a squid as their symbol str8 sun tim tools toppo field of math uniq usa 01 vegas viper vv vr its w-a-a-c uh w-e-q-n-t york yugto and zou so congratulations to all of you thank you for participating in the community delegation program francisco told me that it was a very emotional time because he read so much and got to know so much about each and every one of you and i wish you all the best of luck as you grow your small pools and i hope this effort does help you guys get bootstrapped and get visible and i'd encourage the community to check out uh all these community people so there's a blog post it'll be at the show notes of this um of this uh show and i'll also include the uh uh ticker symbols as well as the i think we have twitter let's see if he gave me that one second yeah we do we have uh twitter is for most of them their twitter handles uh so i'll include that in the show notes as well for everybody so congratulations community pools thank you so much for being part of this program and uh it's very great to see the small guys win this one cheers everyone and have a wonderful night
