Overview
PaskLab Technologies makes tools for ADA holders and for the people who run the servers behind the network. Its main product, Adastry, is a reward tracker that gathers the staking rewards and transaction history of your accounts and exports them as a spreadsheet file1. Adastry's own documentation names tax reporting as the main reason people use it2.
PaskLab is the work of Pascal Lapointe, a developer based in Quebec, Canada, whose projects include Adastry3. PaskLab also publishes cardano-docker, free setup files for running a Cardano node, the software that connects a computer to the Cardano network4. A Cardano Foundation profile of Berry Pool says Lapointe merged his own stake pool, a server that ADA holders delegate to in order to earn rewards, with Berry Pool in late 20205. The same profile credits him and Berry Pool founder Alessandro Konrad with building the Nami Wallet browser extension5.
Key Features
- Your staking rewards in one spreadsheet. Adastry keeps account, reward, and transaction history for each tracked account and exports the data as a CSV file1, a plain text format that spreadsheet programs such as Excel can import6.
- Accounts from different wallets in one view. Adastry monitors accounts regardless of which wallet app holds them, and a bulk export option merges several accounts into a single file7.
- Rewards valued at the time they arrived. For each reward payout, Adastry records the ADA spot price in the currency you choose, with options that include gold and Bitcoin7.
- Separate reports for pool operators. Stake pool operators who manage several accounts can see their rewards split into two figures: rewards on their own stake, and their share of the pool fees, the part of a pool's rewards that goes to its owners1,8.
- Node setup files you build from source. The open-source cardano-docker project packages a Cardano node and related tools into Docker containers, self-contained software bundles4. Its build files support regular PCs and ARM-based computers, low-power machines such as the Raspberry Pi4,5.
What to Expect
Visitors to pascallapointe.com land on the Adastry sign-in page rather than a company homepage. You create an account with a username and password, and can then also sign in with a verified Nami, Eternl, or Yoroi wallet9. The site says Adastry is brought to you by Berry Pool and the Armada Alliance, and built by PaskLab9. The Armada Alliance is a group of independent stake pool operators10.
The basic Adastry plan costs nothing, and accounts delegated to an Armada Alliance member pool for at least four epochs get the Supporter plan at no cost1. An epoch is Cardano's five-day reward cycle8. Paid plans cover a single account or all accounts delegated to a pool for one year1. The Adastry documentation is clear that the service gathers and organizes your data but does not calculate profit or loss2.
Node operators will find step-by-step build commands in the cardano-docker repository on GitHub, along with a suggested folder layout for the main block-producing server and its relay servers, which pass data to the rest of the network4. Developers can also read the Adastry blog, which includes a tutorial on using the Lucid Web3 library on SvelteKit, a framework for building web apps11.
