Stake Pool Delegation Part 4: Stake Pools as Chain Validators
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In Part 1 through Part 3 we built a stack that observes Cardano delegation — index the certificates, persist them, gate user inputs on pool membership. The application reads delegation; delegation does not read the application. There is a more ambitious place to put stake pools, though: at the consensus layer of a chain itself. That is where Midnight lives. Once you go there, "react to delegation" stops being a feature flag inside a game and starts being block production for an entire ecosystem of games.