PoolTool

The Pooltool app says to verify your wallet address by creating an account AND sending them ADA from your own wallet by January 2022 in order to continue tracking your staking rewards. Any requirement of withdrawing funds from your own wallet is a scam. **The blockchain is a public ledger** so by definition there should be no valid reason why you should ever be forced to pay for this functionality to be verified by January 2022. How it works now can be how it works later on because it is a public ledger. That is where they muddy the waters in transparency because it confuses people on how this actually works. You are identifiable and lose some level of anonymity by confirming you own a walket address.If they needed a way to pay for services, be upfront and transparent in that regard. Why connect users to their wallet addresses?Otherwise there should be other options and choices for tracking rewards without giving up your privacy by confirming each and every single wallet address.For example, if someone has 20 wallets, then hypothetically, each wallet will be tagged on the public ledger if they send Ada from each of them just to track staking rewards. So the data points are out there connecting the user to tbe tool. Why is this necessary? It isn't and shouldn't be. This is taking advantage of the newness of Cardano since the tech is growing that other tracking options are limited at the moment. But if you look around, although the Pooltool app is getting comprehensive in features, it is not the only game in town.

This app is a must-have if you stake ADA. Easy to navigate and examine the network. I LOVE the fact that I can get a notification when the pool to which I delegate mint’s a block, and I get an automatic notification at the end of every epoch that tells me my rewards. Super simple and great, as ADA should be.

The navigation buttons are too low and interfere and are hard to use on an iPhone without the home button. This is the only design issue I have with the app.