Overview
Cexplorer Governance Actions is a free tracker1 for the proposals that a blockchain's community votes on, showing what each one asks for and how its vote stands2. These proposals, called governance actions, can ask to pay out treasury funds, change network settings, adopt a new constitution or start a network upgrade, as set out in CIP-1694, the proposal that introduced on-chain voting3. Voters, stake pool operators and researchers can use it to see which proposals are open, which passed and which ran out of time2.
The page belongs to Cexplorer, a Cardano explorer (a website for looking up the records stored on the blockchain) that says it has been running since the Incentivized Testnet, Cardano's early staking trial1. On Cardano, three groups review proposals4. The Constitutional Committee is a group that checks each one against the constitution4. DReps are representatives that ADA holders choose to vote on their behalf, and stake pool operators run the computers that produce blocks4. Cexplorer Governance Actions tracks all three groups' votes side by side. The Cexplorer team also completed a Project Catalyst Fund 13 grant, from Cardano's community funding program, to build analytics for DReps and stake pool operators5.
Key Features
- Proposal status at a glance. Each row shows the proposal's type, its name, its status (Active, Ratified, Enacted, Expired or Dropped), the epochs (Cardano's fixed time periods) when voting opened and closed, and the transaction that submitted it2.
- A quick read on how each vote is going. A progress column shows the vote percentages from the Constitutional Committee, DReps and stake pool operators, so you can compare proposals without opening each one2.
- Treasury spending against its cap. The Treasury Withdrawals tab lists requests to pay funds out of the Cardano treasury with their amounts, plus a bar comparing approved withdrawals with the net change limit, the cap on how much can leave the treasury in a set period6.
- A full vote breakdown for each proposal. Each proposal's own page shows the deposit paid to submit it, a link to its published details, how each Constitutional Committee member voted against the two-thirds threshold, and how DRep stake split between Yes, No, No confidence, Abstain and Not voted7.
- Proposals on a timeline. The Timeline tab draws the proposals on the current page as bars across epochs, labelled by status and type, with the current epoch marked2.
What to Expect
The page opens on a summary strip. It counts proposals by status, shows how much ADA stake is actively voting, and shows how much sits with the built-in Always abstain and Always no confidence options, two preset choices that ADA holders can delegate their vote to instead of a DRep3, with links to the lists of DReps, stake pools and committee members2. Below that, you can search the table by name and filter it by proposal type or status2. The Outcomes tab narrows the list to proposals that were approved8.
ADA holders who delegate their vote can open a single proposal for more detail. Its Voted and Not Voted tabs list who took part, a Status History tab tracks how the proposal moved through each stage, and Description and Metadata tabs hold the text its authors published7.
Browsing Cexplorer Governance Actions is free. Cexplorer's paid PRO plan adds data exports, chart exports and API access, a way for software to pull the data automatically1. The site also covers Cardano's Preprod and Preview test networks1. Cexplorer publishes frontend code for its explorer in the public cexplorer-fe repository on GitHub9.
