Overview
Cardano DRep Match Maker is a free web quiz that helps ADA holders choose a DRep, short for delegated representative: a person or group who votes on governance proposals for the holders who pick them. You answer 10 questions about real past proposals, and the tool ranks DReps by how closely their recorded votes match your answers1. A Connect Wallet button then lets you delegate to the DRep you picked without copying any IDs1,2.
Peter Bui, the educator behind Learn Cardano, created the matchmaker when he retired as a DRep, to help delegators move to active, smaller representatives1,3. It only suggests DReps with under 30M ADA in voting power, which the site says helps keep Cardano governance decentralized1. Mesh With Us, a Gold Coast web agency that also builds blockchain integrations, did the web development1,4. Its DRep and vote data comes from Koios, a public service for looking up Cardano data1,5.
Key Features
- Matches based on how DReps actually voted. Each question asks how you would have voted on a real governance action, a proposal put to an on-chain vote. An exact match with a DRep's vote scores two points, a partial match where either side abstained scores one, and an opposite vote loses one point1.
- Only active, smaller representatives. The quiz leaves out DReps who have not voted in the last 90 days, DReps with no registered name, and any DRep holding more than 30M ADA in voting power1.
- A quick pick when you skip the quiz. A "Skip, just suggest someone" button shows a random DRep that meets the same rules, and a "Find another" button draws a new one1.
- Delegate in one step. Connect Wallet builds the delegation for the DRep shown on screen, and you approve it in your own wallet. The page names Lace, Eternl, Typhon and Yoroi as wallets that support CIP-95, the standard for governance actions in web wallets1,2.
- Plain answers to delegation questions. An FAQ on the same page covers what DReps do, what delegating costs, how to change it, and what happens when a DRep goes inactive1.
What to Expect
For ADA holders, the page offers a short quiz that takes about a minute. You can skip, abstain or give no opinion on any question you're unsure about2. Results list the matched DReps with their voting power and delegator count, a button to copy each DRep's ID, and a link to look them up on a separate DRep directory1,2. When two DReps score the same, the one with more exact matches ranks higher, then the one with less voting power1.
Delegating to a DRep is separate from staking. Your ADA stays in your wallet, any stake pool rewards carry on as before, and only its voting power points to the representative1,2. The page's FAQ says the cost is the normal network fee, usually around 0.2 ADA, and that you can switch DReps or undelegate at any time1. After the transaction goes through, the page shows a link to it on a block explorer and offers to share your chosen DRep on X1.
The same page keeps Peter's own record from his time as a DRep: a voting history the page describes as every governance vote he cast, with his written rationale, pulled live from the chain1. A walkthrough on Learn Cardano shows the full flow, from the quiz to a delegation confirmed on-chain in Cardanoscan2. Readers who want more from the same creator can follow the Learn Cardano YouTube channel for videos and podcasts, or subscribe to the Learn Cardano Newsletter for ecosystem news.
