Overview
Cardano Treasury in Numbers is a free dashboard that shows how much ADA sits in the network's shared community fund, where that money comes from and how much of it gets paid out. Anyone curious about the network's public money can check the balance, the past 12 months of income and spending, and the donations sent back in, all on one page with no wallet or sign-up. The charts run on live data, so they move as the network does1.
The page belongs to the Insights section of cardano.org, and its code sits in the Cardano Foundation's open-source GitHub repository2. The treasury it tracks is a pool of ADA held by the Cardano protocol itself, and ADA leaves it only when the community approves a withdrawal on chain3. For the background, a companion explainer page covers what the treasury is and how spending is decided, and the dashboard links to it at the top1.
Key Features
- A one-glance yearly summary. The opening strip shows the treasury balance, its 12-month change, estimated income, ADA paid out through approved withdrawals, and ADA received through donations1.
- See where the money comes from. A bar chart splits the treasury's income for each epoch (a five-day period on Cardano) by source, with a switch between the last two years and all epochs1. The two sources are transaction fees and the reserves, a finite stock of ADA that Cardano releases step by step3.
- A look ahead. The reserves outlook draws a dashed line showing where the reserves would head if the past year's pace continued, and estimates how much they would add to the treasury per epoch in future years1.
- Donations tracked on their own. Projects can return unused ADA from treasury-funded work through a transaction called a treasury donation. The page totals these donations, counts the epochs that had them, and links to the tool for sending one1.
- Plain notes beside the numbers. Short notes explain each chart, for example why the share of income from fees says little about how busy the network is: fees per transaction are low by design1.
What to Expect
You land on a single scrolling page with four parts: the 12-month balance and flows, income from reserves and fees, the reserves outlook, and treasury donations1. There is nothing to log into and nothing to connect. The figures and charts load in your browser4, and a language menu offers German, Spanish, Japanese and Vietnamese versions alongside English1.
Most numbers come straight from the blockchain through Koios, an open-source public service that answers questions about Cardano's on-chain data. The donation figures are the exception: they come from a saved snapshot that the site's maintainers refresh, ideally every epoch. If that snapshot falls behind, the page labels the donation total with the last epoch it covers4.
The page is open about its limits. Income is an estimate, and withdrawals count in the epoch they took effect, so the yearly figures do not add up exactly. The projection assumes that fees and protocol settings stay as they are1.
Treasury in Numbers suits ADA holders who want to know how their network funds itself, and DReps (delegated representatives who vote on behalf of ADA holders) weighing a request to spend treasury money. For a list of individual withdrawals, the companion supply page records treasury withdrawals by epoch5. Readers who want more on voting and spending can browse ADAStack's governance dashboards or read what Cardano governance is.
