Overview
Cardanoscan ADA Pot Withdrawals is a free public table that shows when ADA left Cardano's shared funds, how much moved, and which stake address received it1. These funds, called ADA pots2, are balances the network itself holds, such as the treasury (a community fund held by the protocol) and the reserves (ADA still waiting to be released into circulation)3. Anyone curious about how those funds get spent can scan the list, filter it by withdrawal type, and open the governance vote or transaction behind a payment1.
The page is part of Cardanoscan, a block explorer (a search site for Cardano's public records) built by Strica, the company that also makes Typhon Wallet4. It covers both pots: treasury withdrawals approved through on-chain voting, plus older instantaneous rewards paid straight to stake addresses from either the treasury or the reserves1. In the site menu, the page sits under Governance next to an ADA Pots page that shows the live balance of each pot2.
Key Features
- See where the money went. Each row lists the amount in ADA, the pot it came from, and the stake address that received it1. A stake address is the account identifier Cardano uses for staking and rewards.
- One click to the vote behind a payment. Governance withdrawal rows open Cardanoscan's page for that proposal, showing how its two voting groups voted, the epoch (a five-day network period) when it gathered enough votes and the epoch when it took effect on the network3,5.
- The proposer's own case. Proposal pages include the abstract, motivation, and rationale the submitter wrote, so readers can see why the money was requested as well as how much5.
- Three withdrawal types in one table. A dropdown narrows the list to governance treasury withdrawals, instantaneous rewards from the treasury, or instantaneous rewards from the reserves1.
- The record from before on-chain voting. Earlier, ADA moved out of the treasury and the reserves through special certificates called Move Instantaneous Rewards, which CIP-1694, the standard behind on-chain voting, removed6. Those payments appear as Instantaneous Reward rows that open the original transaction1.
What to Expect
For curious ADA holders, the page is a plain table with 20 rows per page and numbered pages, open to anyone without an account1. The default view puts the newest rows first, and each governance row links to its proposal's page. One example is the proposal to withdraw 120,000,000 ADA for AlphaGrowth's Cardano PRIME program, enacted in August 2026, whose page lists the amount, the recipient, and each individual vote5.
The reserves filter lists instantaneous rewards paid from the reserves to individual stake addresses, including a 66,000,000 ADA payment made in 20217. The treasury filter lists instantaneous rewards paid from the treasury, many of them small amounts spread across many accounts8.
Proposal pages also show who decides. DReps, representatives that ADA holders delegate their votes to, and the Constitutional Committee, a small group that checks proposals against Cardano's constitution, both vote on treasury withdrawals, while stake pool operators do not9,5. According to cardano.org, a withdrawal must also follow the constitution and stay within a net change limit, a cap on how much ADA can leave the treasury in a period3. To look up the representatives themselves, ADAStack's DRep explorers category lists dedicated tools.
As for where the money comes from, cardano.org explains that each epoch (a five-day network period) Cardano combines transaction fees with a share of the reserves, and 20% of that sum goes to the treasury3. Developers can use the Cardanoscan API, whose network state endpoint returns the treasury and reserves balances10.
