Pool Tools & Explorers
Explorers, dashboards, APIs and operator toolkits for researching stake pools or running one yourself.
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.
Guild Operators Tools (CNTools)
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.
Cardanoscan
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.
Koios
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.
Cexplorer
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.
Balance Analytics
Analytics service that publishes Cardano stake distribution, pool group and single-pool-operator research, including the widely cited reports on multi-pool operator concentration.
AdaStat
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.
Armada Alliance
Alliance of Cardano stake pool operators running their nodes on low-power ARM hardware, with shared guides, scripts and a directory of member pools.
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.