Overview
Cardano Governance Health is a public dashboard that shows, in charts, whether Cardano's community voting system is working well1. It answers plain questions: who takes part in votes, how evenly voting power is spread, and how proposals and treasury spending turn out. Its measures come from a report written to help community members, tool builders and researchers spot trends and risks earlier2.
The dashboard tracks Cardano's on-chain governance, the system set out in CIP-1694 in which ADA holders, their chosen representatives (DReps), stake pool operators and a Constitutional Committee each have a say on proposals3. It is published on Dune, a website where people build charts from blockchain data, under the @cardano account1.
The charts follow a scorecard of health measures written by the Governance Health Working Group of the Intersect Civics Committee2. Intersect, the member organization that helps coordinate Cardano's development, says the dashboard went live in April 2026 so the community could follow those measures over time4. Readers new to the topic can start with what Cardano governance is.
Key Features
- Six health checks on one page. The sections mirror the six categories of the working group's report: ADA holder participation, DRep activity, stake pool operator participation, proposals and treasury, Constitutional Committee activity, and tooling and ease of use1,2.
- A clear view of who holds voting power. The DRep section scores how evenly delegated ADA is spread with a Gini coefficient, a standard measure of inequality, and lists the DReps holding the most delegated stake1.
- Turnout for each voting group. Charts follow how much ADA votes through DReps each epoch, a roughly five-day period, next to voting turnout for stake pool operators and Constitutional Committee members1.
- Signs of agreement or division. A divergence table compares how DReps and stake pool operators voted on the same proposals, and a contention table shows how close the yes and no votes were1.
- Numbers readers can check. Charts on the dashboard link to the Dune query behind them, the database code that pulls the figures, so anyone can see how a number is calculated1.
What to Expect
Cardano Governance Health opens with the current epoch and the latest block number, then works through the six sections. Groups of charts start with the question they answer, such as whether DReps include a written rationale with their votes1. Most figures refresh once per epoch, about every five days, because the data depends on epoch changes1.
ADA holders can see how much delegated ADA sits with inactive DReps and how much staked ADA belongs to stake pools that have never voted1. People following proposals can compare success rates by proposal type, see how long decisions take, and track what the deposit for submitting a proposal costs in US dollars1. Readers focused on spending can turn to dedicated treasury trackers, and those choosing a representative can browse DRep explorers.
Researchers and tool builders can open a chart's query on Dune to study the method behind it. The working group's report goes deeper: it defines each measure, picks seven core measures for a first dashboard, and explains which measures it set aside2. Cardano Governance Health turns measures from that report into charts1.
