Pool Tools & Explorers

Explorers, dashboards, APIs and operator toolkits for researching stake pools or running one yourself.

8 stake pools

PoolTool

Community-run dashboard for Cardano stake pools and delegators, showing block production, luck, pledge and saturation per pool. Operators use its API to share tip and block-height data with each other.

pooltool.io

Guild Operators Tools (CNTools)

Pool Tools & Explorers

Open-source toolkit maintained by the Cardano Community guild for running a stake pool: CNTools for wallet and pool management, gLiveView for node monitoring, and step-by-step operator documentation.

cardano-community.github.io

Cardanoscan

Pool Tools & Explorers

Long-running Cardano explorer whose pool section lists every registered stake pool with live stake, saturation, fees and recently minted blocks. Also exposes pool metadata and certificates.

cardanoscan.io

Koios

Pool Tools & Explorers

Decentralised, community-operated REST API for Cardano chain data, run by a cluster of independent stake pool operators. It is the source of the pool metrics used across this directory.

koios.rest

Cexplorer

Pool Tools & Explorers

Cardano block explorer with a detailed stake pool section covering fees, pledge, saturation, delegator counts and historical rewards. It absorbed the older ADApools pool directory.

cexplorer.io

Balance Analytics

Pool Tools & Explorers

Analytics service that publishes Cardano stake distribution, pool group and single-pool-operator research, including the widely cited reports on multi-pool operator concentration.

balanceanalytics.io

AdaStat

Pool Tools & Explorers

Open-source Cardano explorer with per-pool pages for stake, margin, fixed cost and epoch-by-epoch block counts. Useful for checking a pool before delegating.

adastat.net

Armada Alliance

Pool Tools & Explorers

Alliance of Cardano stake pool operators running their nodes on low-power ARM hardware, with shared guides, scripts and a directory of member pools.

armada-alliance.com

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What counts as pool tools & explorers?

Explorers, dashboards, APIs and operator toolkits for researching stake pools or running one yourself.

What are pool tools & explorers?

Explorers, dashboards, APIs and operator toolkits for researching stake pools or running one yourself.

Do lower fees always mean higher rewards?

Not always. A pool that misses blocks earns less regardless of fees. Saturation also cuts rewards once a pool exceeds the limit. Look at fees, pledge, and block history together.