Overview
CGOV is an open-source website1 that tracks network-wide votes on upgrades and treasury spending, showing each proposal, how the vote is going, and who is casting the votes. ADA holders use it to pick a delegated representative (DRep), a person or group who votes on their behalf, and anyone following governance can see where treasury money has gone. A built-in AI assistant answers plain-language questions about the same data.
CGOV runs on Cardano and covers all seven types of governance action set out in CIP-1694, including treasury withdrawals and hard fork upgrades1. It comes from Nomos Guild, a joint effort of Mesh, the team behind a TypeScript toolkit for building Cardano apps, and SIDAN Lab, another Cardano development team2. The Cardano.org community digest covered its launch as an open-source governance platform3.
Key Features
- See how each vote is going. Proposal cards show the share of support from DReps, stake pool operators, and the Constitutional Committee (the elected group that checks proposals against Cardano's constitution), next to the share each group needs to pass4.
- Find a representative who fits your views. The CGOV DRep Picker filters representatives by voting activity, how often they explain their votes, delegator count, and voting power, and a Match Me quiz suggests DReps after you vote on five proposals5.
- Follow the treasury money. A funded-entities page lists the organizations that have received treasury funding, and each card opens that organization's full funding history6.
- Ask questions in plain language. Ask CGOV AI looks up live governance data to answer questions about DReps, proposals, and the treasury, and people can connect the same data source to their own AI app7.
- Take the voting records with you. Searchable voting records on each proposal export to JSON, CSV, or Markdown files, ready for a spreadsheet or a report1.
What to Expect
You land on the proposals page: totals for submitted, active, passed, and failed proposals, the treasury balance, and a card for each proposal with its live vote shares4. Filters narrow the list by action type or status. Clicking a card opens the full breakdown, with vote charts, voting trends over time, and a bubble map of how voting power is spread1. A separate dashboard view lets you hide charts, drag them into a new order, and share the layout8.
ADA holders who have not chosen a representative can start on the DRep pages, compare candidates, and open a profile with each DRep's voting history1. Proposal pages also carry a Cast Your Vote panel, where a registered DRep can connect a Cardano wallet and submit a vote on that action9,1. If governance itself is new to you, ADAStack's guide to Cardano governance explains who votes and why.
CGOV's data and code are also used outside the site. BeInCrypto credited CGOV as the source of its chart of DRep votes on the Van Rossem hard fork upgrade10. Developers can read or reuse the code, which is public on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license1. The cgov-mcp data connector behind the AI assistant gives AI tools read-only access to governance records11.
