Overview
Adastack is a directory of blockchain apps and tools that lets you find a wallet, a game, a staking service, or a governance app by browsing plain-language groups. Each entry gets its own page with a written summary, usually a screenshot, and links through to the project's own site and accounts. A person reviews submissions against a working website and an active project before they go up1.
Adastack's sections cover first-steps material, wallets, staking, DApps, development tooling, and on-chain data. Adastack's About page frames the site around a discovery problem: newcomers struggle to find clear, reliable information about which projects are worth their time2. Alongside the pages people read, the same catalogue is published in a form software can read.
Key Features
- Browse by theme, then narrow down. Projects are filed into narrow categories grouped under broader sections, so you can start from something like wallets or staking and work down to a single listing3.
- Each listing is a written page. An entry carries a short editorial description, key features, a set of common questions, and footnoted sources4.
- Human review before a listing goes up. Submissions are checked by a person against an active project, a working website, Cardano relevance, and basic safety standards rather than published automatically1.
- The catalogue is readable by software. A public API serves listings, filters, sections, and categories with no key and no account, and it is read-only3.
- A plain-text map for AI assistants. Adastack publishes an llms.txt file, a plain-text summary of the site that points AI tools at its sections, its directory export, and its data endpoints5.
What to Expect
From search or from the list of sections, you land on a category page, scan projects with a one-line summary each, and open the ones you want to read more about. Individual pages carry the longer write-up and cite where their claims came from4. Listings can also be filtered by the human language a project's site is written in and by the programming language of its code, which helps if English is not your first language, or if you want tools written in a language you already work in3.
For project teams there are two separate routes. A free listing is requested by email with the project name, website, a suggested category, and a short description, then reviewed against the published criteria1. Paid promotion sits beside that rather than replacing it: a homepage spotlight slot, featured placement at the top of matching category and section pages, and sponsor cards on project pages6.
For developers and AI tools, the data endpoints return listings with search and filters, sections and categories, and a directory export as a single text document meant for loading into an AI assistant3. Adastack is itself listed in the Cardano Foundation apps catalogue on cardano.org under Ecosystem7, and an earlier version of the site's code was published openly on GitHub before that repository was archived8. Directories with different scopes and inclusion rules sit alongside it in the ecosystem explorers category.
