Navigating Cardano governance: essential tools you should know

Voltaire is here, bringing on-chain governance to Cardano. With the implementation of CIP-1694 and community-driven participation models through delegate representatives (DReps) and the constitution, governance is now active, evolving, and open to all.

Voltaire puts the full power of decision-making directly into the hands of the community. As governance tools and platforms come online, understanding why and how to participate is key to shaping the network's future.

To help you navigate this new landscape, here is a list of essential tools and platforms that make Cardano governance more transparent, easier to navigate, and inclusive. And since governance is moving fast on Cardano, we’ll keep this list updated as more arrive! Anything we’ve missed? Any corrections needed? Submit a PR below!

Cardano governance tools

• 1694.io (🐦: @LidoNation): 1694.io helps hot wallet and CLI DReps manage metadata and connect with delegators. Ada holders can track DRep impact and explore on-chain participation, with off-chain data and engagement history coming soon.

• 1694.tools (🐦: @TheUnpopularEL): a Cardano proposal explorer that allows users to find information on various Cardano proposals, including their status and funding, and offers tools to view proposals and DReps, learn with AI, and export data.

• A New Dawn (🐦: @IntersectMBO): a curated hub making Cardano governance approachable. A New Dawn offers educational content on delegation, participation, and viewing proposed enhancements, highlighting ecosystem builders.

• AdaStat (🐦: @ada_stat): a detailed Cardano blockchain explorer with integrated governance data, AdaStat tracks proposals, DRep stats, Catalyst voting history, and stake delegation metrics. This explorer is useful for those wanting to understand Cardano governance’s data layer.

• Agora (🐦: @liqwidfinance): a set of Plutus scripts that compose together to form a governance system, providing a one-size-fits-all governance library for projects on Cardano.

• Cardano Ballot (🐦: @Cardano_CF): a user-friendly, hybrid on- and off-chain voting system developed by the Cardano Foundation.

• Cardano Budget Proposals 2025 (🐦: @tony_thanh_): a platform showcasing all the proposals and key governance metrics in 2025.

• Cardano Developer Portal (🐦: @Cardano_CF): lots of useful content and links on this site managed by the Cardano Foundation.

• Cardano Explorer (🐦: @cexplorer_io): a platform built by AdaPools that offers a great on-chain tool to explore governance activities. The explorer includes a dashboard, views of the constitution, voting, activity, DReps, delegations, committees, and stats.

• Cardano Gov Actions (🐦: @semsorock): an X bot by Alex Karpov that posts governance notifications.

• Cardano Gov Tool (🐦: @IntersectMBO): an interface for core governance actions outlined in CIP-1694, facilitating DRep registration, delegation, and voting on governance actions. 

• Cardano Governance Voting Tool (🐦: @Cardano_CF): a simple tool to help every Cardano stakeholder participate in on-chain governance with confidence. The Cardano Governance Voting Tool helps users create, sign, and submit governance votes with proper rationale documentation, and generate formatted PDFs for transparency and record-keeping.

• CardanoPress (🐦: @CardanoPress): an open-source plugin for WordPress that helps users easily create a Cardano-powered website while its governance features enable on-chain voting within websites.

• Cardano Signer (🐦: @ATADA_Stakepool): an open-source multifunction tool that can sign and verify data. The tool can also be used for key generation, such as the creation of delegated representative (DRep) keys as well as constitutional committee (CC) cold and hot keys with mnemonic support.

• Cardanoscan (🐦: @cardanoscanio): a feature-rich blockchain explorer and analytics platform for Cardano, providing information about governance, blockchain, analytics, tokens, and pools.

• ChangWatch (🐦: @Cerkoryn): a dashboard that shows the vote threshold for each governance action type, with live data on stake distribution and total numbers, broken down SPO, DRep, and constitutional committee (CC).

• CIP-95 web/wallet interface (🐦: @Cardano_CF): extends the existing CIP-30 wallet-web bridge to support the development of governance-related DApps.

• Clarity (🐦: @clarity_dao): a platform that builds community governance and management tools for Cardano projects.

• DRep Handles (🐦: @adahandle): The Cardano DRep Dashboard from $handle allows DReps to link their Handle or SubHandle or to DRep IDs through a secure on-chain method. The Handle or SubHandle can then be shared and easily searched across every Governance interface on Cardano.

• DRep Watch (🐦: @dRepWatch): monitors DRep activity and voting power in real time. DRep Watch helps ada holders evaluate, compare, and choose DReps, promoting accountability and performance tracking. 

• DripDropz Open Source On-Chain Voting (🐦: @DripDropz_io): an open-source framework powered by the Cardano blockchain for those looking to conduct governance or voting on Cardano.

• Ekklesia (🐦: @adamKDean / @intersectMBO): a platform for budget reconciliation polling, Ekklesia helps DReps support treasury proposals. It was key in the 2025 budgeting process, encouraging early, transparent coordination. 

• Governance Space (🐦: @governancevote): a multi-chain blockchain governance platform for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), projects, and institutions seeking transparency, security, and efficiency in their decision-making processes.  

• Gov Actions (🐦: @GovActions): an X bot giving alerts on Cardano governance actions.

• Multi-Sig Platform (🐦: @meshsdk): an open-source multi-signature platform for the Cardano blockchain, enabling DReps, DAOs and teams to manage shared treasuries securely. It facilitates collective participation in Cardano governance by allowing the creation of multisig wallets, defining signing rules, and enabling groups to vote on governance actions.

• Reach Your People (RYP) (🐦: @VibrantNet_io): a community integration system from @NilsCodes for Discord on Cardano, allowing users to connect their social profiles and wallets to stay updated on topics of interest.

• Round Table (🐦: @ADAOcommunity): an open-source wallet for easy creation of multi-signature wallets. This can support collective registration as a DRep.

• SanchoNet (🐦: @InputOutputHK): Cardano’s dedicated governance testnet, maintained by a core group of IOG SPOs. It allows sandboxed experimentation and collaborative development, encouraging users to become Sancho SPOs and DReps, and developers to build tools. 

• Summon Platform (🐦: @SummonPlatform): allows ada holders to submit and vote on proposals for open and transparent decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) governance.

• SyncAI (🐦: @SyncAI_Network): an AI-powered governance and identity platform simplifying participation. SyncAI is building on-chain AI agents for smarter, intuitive Web3 experiences, enhancing Cardano governance. 

• Tempo (🐦: @tempo_vote): this governance coordination dashboard tracks proposals, votes, and DRep behavior. Tempo fosters community engagement with public commenting and transparent voting records. 

• Upstream's Cardano DRep Explorer (🐦: @Upstream_ada): an AI-powered tool designed to help Cardano community members find DReps whose values and goals align with their own. Analyzing DReps' public statements, voting history, and other data simplifies the research process, aiming to enhance informed delegation and participation in Cardano's governance.

• VibrantNet (🐦: @VibrantNet_io): a community integration system with Hazelnet, Cardano Discord Bot.

• Vote-supporting wallets: not every Cardano wallet currently supports the ability to delegate an ada holder’s vote to a DRep or vote as a DRep on key governance issues. Current compatible wallets include , Begin (🐦: @BeginWallet), Eternl (🐦: @eternlwallet), Lace (🐦: @lace_io). NuFi (🐦: @nufiwallet), and Yoroi (🐦: @YoroiWallet), .

Final thoughts

Cardano's Voltaire empowers the community through decentralized governance. The diverse tools and resources are essential for understanding proposals, tracking activity, and participating effectively. 

Dive into these resources, explore the tools and platforms, and use them to have your say in shaping the network's future.