Overview
Cardanoscan Analytics is a free page of charts that shows how busy the network is, what people pay in fees, and where its ADA is held. Anyone can open it in a browser, with no account, and follow trends in transactions, fees, block size, and staking rewards1. It suits holders, researchers, and writers who want a quick visual answer instead of digging through raw blockchain records.
Cardanoscan Analytics is the chart section of Cardanoscan, a Cardano block explorer, meaning a search site for looking up single transactions, wallets, and blocks. Both are run by Strica, the team that also makes Typhon Wallet2. Strica rebuilt the charts page with money from a Project Catalyst Fund 11 proposal, Cardano's community grant program, and the project is recorded as complete3.
Key Features
- See where the network's ADA sits. The ADA Pots chart tracks how much ADA is held in the treasury (a shared fund the community votes to spend), the reserves (ADA not yet released, which gradually funds rewards), and the UTXO total, meaning the ADA held at addresses on the network, starting from epoch 209 (an epoch is a five-day accounting period on Cardano)4.
- Exact figures behind the lines. Below the ADA Pots chart, a paged history table lists each epoch's treasury, reserves, unclaimed rewards, UTXO total, fees, and staking deposits, with each epoch number linking to its own explorer page4.
- Staking payouts over time. The Epoch Rewards Distribution chart plots the total staking rewards paid out in each epoch, the five-day accounting period Cardano uses to settle rewards5.
- Daily activity and fees in one view. The Daily Transaction Count & Fees chart shows how many transactions went through on each date and the total fees paid that day6. A separate Epoch Fees chart adds up fees for each epoch, a longer view than the daily chart7.
- A check on how full blocks are. The Hourly Average Block Size chart shows the average size of new blocks hour by hour, which Cardanoscan describes as a way to track network capacity and usage8.
What to Expect
You start on a simple hub page with five chart cards1. Each card opens a page with one chart and a short written note on what it measures. There is no sign-up, and the pages follow the explorer's site-wide settings for light or dark theme and display currency1.
For writers and researchers, the ADA Pots page is a good place to start, because its table gives exact per-epoch numbers that can be quoted or compared rather than read off a curve4. The charts are also meant to be passed around. Strica's funding proposal states that they are free for anyone to view, screenshot, and share, and it set the goal of precise, real-time data in an easy-to-read layout2.
Cardanoscan Analytics shows network-wide totals, not personal balances. To check a single wallet's staking income, a reward tracker is the better fit, and for one transaction or block, the main Cardanoscan search box is the place to go. Developers can also use the Cardanoscan API, a connection that lets their own programs pull explorer data directly. Its free data requests include the network's current treasury and reserves totals, and Pro plans add daily transaction fees9.
