Overview
Cardanoscan is a Cardano blockchain explorer built by Strica that doubles as a public reward tracker for ADA delegators. Any user can paste a stake key or payment address to review delegation history, reward history, and withdrawal activity without connecting a wallet, turning the explorer into a free audit surface for staking participation.1
Beyond delegator lookups, Cardanoscan covers the full surface of the Cardano chain — blocks, transactions, pools, native assets, and on-chain governance artefacts such as DReps, committee members, governance actions, and protocol parameters.1 The stake key and address views are the defining reward-tracking feature, but they sit inside a broader block explorer that many Cardano users already reach for by reflex.
Key Features
- Stake key reward surface. The
/stakeKey/{bech32}page exposes dedicated tabs for Delegation History, Stake Key History, Withdrawal History, Instantaneous Rewards, and Vote Delegations, giving delegators a per-epoch record of earnings and pool changes.1 - Address-to-stake lookup. The address view resolves any Cardano payment address to its controlled stake key, then deep links into the same reward history — useful when a user only knows a receive address and not the underlying stake credential.1
- Testnet coverage. Separate explorer instances at
preprod.cardanoscan.ioandpreview.cardanoscan.iomirror the mainnet interface for Cardano's public test networks, so developers can inspect test reward flows with the same UI.1 - Developer API. A companion API at
docs.cardanoscan.iopublishes endpoints across blocks, transactions, addresses, pools, assets, rewards, and governance, with both a free tier and a paid Pro tier for higher-volume integrations.2 - Strica stewardship. The explorer is maintained by Strica, the same team behind Typhon Wallet and a set of open-source TypeScript libraries for Cardano, with continuous development funded through successive Project Catalyst rounds.34
What to Expect
Using Cardanoscan as a reward tracker takes one action: paste a stake key (stake1...) or a payment address (addr1...) into the search bar. The resulting stake key page consolidates delegation state, the list of past pools, historical rewards per epoch, withdrawal transactions, and instantaneous reward entries — all without any sign-in. For casual delegators, this is the fastest way to confirm a pool is paying out and that rewards are being credited to the expected stake address.
The interface leans toward technical users rather than casual investors. There is no dedicated "rewards dashboard" landing page — the onus is on the user to know the stake key or address first, and to understand the difference between epoch rewards, withdrawals, and MIR (instantaneous) entries. Readers new to staking may want to pair Cardanoscan with a wallet-based tracker for a gentler introduction before returning for its deeper historical detail. The chrome is dark-themed and data-dense; expect tables rather than charts for reward records.
For developers and power users, the Cardanoscan API is the main draw beyond the web interface — a single credential unlocks programmatic access to reward and delegation data that would otherwise require running a relay node or third-party indexer.2 The site is maintained by an identifiable team with a multi-year track record on Cardano, which is the trust signal most delegators look for when deciding where to check their reward history.3
