Overview
Clarity DRep Explorer is a public web page that helps ADA holders choose a DRep, short for delegated representative: a person or group who votes on governance proposals for the holders who back them. One table lists registered DReps with their voting power, delegator count and voting record, so you can compare candidates before handing over your vote1. Click a name to open a profile with that DRep's own statement and past votes2.
The explorer covers Cardano, where ADA holders can vote on network decisions themselves or delegate that voting power to a DRep. It is part of Clarity, a governance platform from Clear Contracts, Inc.1 that also lets organizations launch DAOs, groups that make decisions through on-chain votes3. That wider platform has its own listing as Clarity Protocol. The explorer grew out of "dRep Community Governance and Explorer," a Project Catalyst proposal funded in Fund 10 with 32,000 ADA and marked complete4.
Key Features
- Compare DReps side by side. The main table shows each DRep's voting power in ADA, their share of total influence, how many delegators back them, and counts of yes, no and abstain votes, plus a Votes Not Cast column1.
- Find a specific representative fast. Clarity's documentation describes search by DRep name or DRep ID, the long code starting with "drep1" that identifies each representative, and a table you can sort by its columns3.
- Read what a DRep stands for. Profile pages can show a DRep's bio, objectives, qualifications and motivations in their own words, so you can weigh stated priorities against actual votes2.
- Check votes against the public record. Votes listed on a DRep's profile link to the matching transaction on Cardanoscan, a public explorer for the Cardano blockchain, so you can confirm how each vote was recorded2.
- Browse in four languages. The DRep page comes in English, Japanese, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese versions, picked from a language switcher at the bottom of the page1.
What to Expect
You land on a long table of DReps, ordered with the largest voting power at the top. Two preset rows, Always Abstain and Always No Confidence, sit alongside the named DReps; these are built-in choices for holders who would rather not back a person1. Browsing the table and opening profiles works without logging in1.
Once you find a DRep you like, the Delegate button on their profile starts the delegation2. Clarity connects to Cardano wallets such as Eternl, Lace, Yoroi and Vespr, and first-time users register with Clarity after connecting5.
Each profile splits the voting record into votes on open proposals, past votes on concluded ones, and a separate section the site labels Invalid Proposals. Rows show the proposal type, such as a treasury withdrawal (a request to pay ADA out of Cardano's shared fund) or a parameter change (an adjustment to the network's settings)2. Clarity's documentation says the explorer's data refreshes every few minutes3.
DReps themselves get a companion governance page. It lists open proposals with their closing times and lets a DRep connect a wallet to cast votes; anyone else can read the proposal details in read-only mode6.
