We have finished the final critical tasks for our gitlab and hosting services and are fully operational. Added two servers for "runners" in our gitlab pages features. This will allow us to run our own type of GitHub pages feature for our own projects and potentially others in the future.

Added to our documentation website enabling small features and adding additional guides for developers who seek to use various testnets on Cardano.

We added a new epoch nonce calculation for leader logs for SPOs to use freely and we now host the nonce at https://nonce.armada-alliance.com/next.json via one of the servers we purchased for the Armada Alliance. We have also collaborated with two other members on the code for leader logs https://github.com/QuixoteSystems/cardano-leader-slot . The code will be moved into the Armada Alliance Github organization shortly.

We have also now setup the gitlab servers for hosting our code repos on our own hardware which is good for reliability and security of our code. We need to finish SMTP email setup and then migrate the code base but this should be done this week coming up.

We have been working on new version for Koios API python wrapper with the lead developer of the project and member of our alliance. We believe it to be a useful tool for many of us developers and community members who want to interact with Koios API but in a much easier and readable way using python.

Lastly, we have just been updating guides slowly while adding content that community members have asked us for in our telegram, discord, and twitter. We have been receiving a lot of requests for new hardware guides and hardware recommendations since the release of the new RockPi5 SBC this month. Hopefully we will get to add more guides for the new boards soon after further testing is done.

Since the last report we have added the search bar functionality to our Armada Alliance website for documentation and tutorials, been working on setting up a new VPS to host our gitlab but this is not fully implemented at the moment but should be done before next report. Lastly, we have added a few more tools to our static/dynamic binaries including cardano-wallet and cardano bech 32 convertor tool as per request of members/developers.

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Some good things to report are the increase in ada staked to our alliance pools has increased based on a few factors including primarily Cardano Foundation delegation and addition of new pools and delegators. This is good and I hope we can add a few more pools to get to 50 (which would be our record) by the end of the year, if prices stay low for ada over the next six months I can see more people starting to experiment with running pools and using ARM servers.

We have added some more hardware with the money we have received to help host various tools for the Cardano developers/community. This is includes but not limited to cardano-submit-api, Freeloaderz load balancer relays, Tosi Drop, Koios DB, and more.

We purchased 1 additional Oracle Cloud VPS costing around ~80-110 usd per month to host a few of the main heavy applications and services. Next step is going to add another low cost server to host our hydra CI/CD pipeline for building the static binaries for cardano-node/cli, cardano-submit-api, cardano-wallet (still waiting from IOG to get help to get and issue addressed), tx-pipe tools, and much more.

We have finished the main migration of the Armada Alliance gitbook documentation from gitbook to our own custom website but still have work to do on guide on how to contribute to the new documentation site, translations integration, and basic functionality/styling of the website. You can see the website currently launched here:

Website for Docs:

https://armada-alliance.com/docs

GitHub for Docs:

https://github.com/armada-alliance/docs

However, we need to fix DNS issue which will change the url again, so for now I have not shared the url I have provided you with the community at this time because I do not want to cause confusion. We will have DNS fixed this coming week.

We have finished upgrading/migrating our documentation website from gitbook.io to our own custom built website: https://rekuenkdr.github.io/armada-alliance-docusaurus/docs/

We have been updating the cardano software for arm as well..

Main build server: https://ci.zw3rk.com/

Backup of node versions and dynamic binaries can be found on our GitHub repo:

https://github.com/armada-alliance/cardano-node-binaries

We are going to be migrating our docs to a new custom built website but for now we still are using gitbook as a failsafe and will continue to do so in the future. Here is the documentation at gitbook: https://armada-alliance.gitbook.io/cardano-heartbeat/

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Not at this time, we are making progress on documentation and other deliverables.

You can see all our content/services we have made here:

https://armada-alliance.gitbook.io/cardano-heartbeat/

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Not at this time. But hopefully have some goodies to report in April.