Overview
ADAspending is a public website that shows where money from a shared community fund goes: which projects got funding through Intersect treasury contracts, which teams are delivering them, and how much each has been paid1,2. That fund is the Cardano treasury, a pool of ADA held by the network itself that pays for community-approved budgets and grants. Voters, researchers and curious holders can look up one project, compare the teams receiving money, or follow the donations people send to the fund.
ADAspending reads treasury balances and donations from the blockchain through Koios, a public service for querying Cardano data3. Project budgets and payment status come from Intersect, the member-based governance organization whose treasury contracts pay these projects3,4. These contracts are on-chain programs that hold and release project funds5. ADAspending, a treasury tracker, is an unofficial community project, not affiliated with the Cardano Foundation, Input Output or EMURGO3. It comes from the team behind Cardano Feed, a Cardano news site6, and GovernanceSpace, a site for following Cardano governance votes and budget discussions7,1.
Key Features
- See what a funded project received and delivered. A project page shows the team, the total budget, each payment stage with its unlock date and status, links to delivery evidence, and a chart of payments over time8.
- Compare the teams being paid. The Vendors directory lists the teams and organizations delivering treasury-funded projects, with each one's total allocation, the amount withdrawn from the contracts and its number of projects9.
- Picture where the money goes. The Spending Explorer breaks tracked budgets down by team in four chart styles, including a treemap (nested boxes sized by budget) and a bubble chart, so the largest recipients stand out at a glance10.
- Follow donations into the treasury. The donations page keeps an all-time donation total and lists recent gifts to the treasury, each linked to its transaction on Cexplorer, a Cardano block explorer11.
- Know where the numbers come from. Dashboard pages name their data source and update time, and they flag when Intersect's indexer, the system that reads its contract records from the blockchain, is running behind4,5.
What to Expect
The Overview dashboard shows the treasury balance, the total budget of tracked projects, how much of that budget has been marked as paid, and short lists of projects grouped by delivery status, from completed to paused4. The Projects page can be searched, filtered by status, budget size or team, and switched between a grid and a list2.
DReps, the representatives ADA holders choose to vote for them on governance actions, including treasury withdrawals12, can use the Vendors page to see how much a team has already been allocated across its projects9. Researchers get an Analytics page with charts of the largest budgets, the status mix across projects and payments over time13. Each project page also links to the same project on Sundae's treasury explorer for a second view of the record8.
Payment figures follow Intersect's own records of which payment stages were marked withdrawn, not totals read from each contract transaction, and the dashboard says so4. Vendor names come from a mapping the team maintains, since Intersect's data identifies vendors only by address5.
Developers can read the site's code in its public GitHub repository, a React and TypeScript web app14. ADAspending only reads public data and never sends transactions to the treasury contracts5.
