Creating Metadata

Here we will walk through creating our metadata file in a public location so that our Stakepool may be publicly identified by explorers, wallets, services, etc.

If you do not already have one, you will need to create a github account. Once logged in, you will now create a repository named "testnet_metadata" Once created, click "creating a new file" You should see something like this:

There are a few things we need to decide before proceeding. First we need the name of your pool, up to 50 characters.

• Name of your pool, up to 50 characters

• Pool description: up to 255 characters

• Ticker: 3-5 characters (capitalized)

• Homepage: If you have a website, put it here

Now we will add our metadata json to the file we just created on github. Please replace with your own values.

  {
  "name": "<the name of your pool>",
  "description": "<Come up with an interesting or uninteresting description here",
  "ticker": "<your ticker>",
  "homepage": "<if you have a homepage, put it here>"
  }

It should look something like this:

Once ready click "commit changes". Then, click on and open your metadata file within github and click "raw".

Copy the URL to your clipboard. Then go to a website shortener (since we will not be using our own website, and there is a character limit in the pool registration file, we will be using the tinyurl shortener)

In tinyurl, create a shortened link to your raw metadata file and save the shortened link.