Cardano is an ambitious project that builds on lessons learned from previous blockchains.
IHOK has been at the forefront of researching and developing Cardano. It is the first blockchain project built from the ground up that is based on scientific peer-reviewed academic research.
As a ADA holder you have a say on the direction of where the project goes.
Cardano has a treasury that gets funded as part of the rewards mechanism within the protocol. These funds are then dispersed by the community through voting.
At some point the protocol stops paying rewards to a pool once it hits the saturation point. When a pool reaches saturation, any rewards that are earned for a particular pool are split among more (stake) people. This means everyone in that pool will earn less rewards for that epoch. If a pool is saturated it is best for everyone to choose a different pool until the pool falls back below saturation.
Stake pools need to be ready to make their assigned blocks at all times. Multiple factors determine a pools ability to create blocks when the time comes.
Pools charge fees to provide the service of having a simple way for everyone to delegate stake to the protocol to support the network.
