ADA Pools

An independent tool containing a wealth of blockchain metrics and explorers, with a focus around stake pools.

Beginning with information detailing the current state of staking on the Cardano blockchain including: total stake, the current epoch and slot, and the quantity of pools in operation; ADA Pools provides a comprehensive overview of staking on the Cardano blockchain.

Following this are explorable data points covering the creation of the most recent blocks on the Cardano blockchain, as well as a “Pool Feed” showing updates made to pool parameters, as well as when new pools join the fray.

When users delve further into ADA Pools they find a wide variety of tools facilitating the viewing of the Cardano blockchain from a myriad of angles. Other tools of note on ADA Pools are:

A reward tracker
A list of retiring stake pools
A detailed page for current and historical statistics relating to each stake pool
Graphs of daily blockchain transactions and staking statistics
A transaction metadata explorer

To list all the tools and ways of looking at the blockchain here would be exhaustive and of little help to the user.

To conclude, ADA Pools is an extremely versatile tool for those looking to explore the Cardano blockchain in unique and interesting ways.

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Glossary

Metadata

Metadata is an element of a Cardano transaction that can be inputed by the user or automatically generated. It is stored on the blockchain with the transaction that it was sent with. This means that, just like the transactions themselves, metadata is immutable, i.e. unchangeable, and stored forever on the Cardano blockchain.

Anyone can add metadata into a transaction and that metadata is then stored on the blockchain. Many wallets allow you to add custom metadata to a transaction.

Metadata can only be made up of characters i.e. numbers, letters and punctuation, and cannot be a file type, i.e. you cannot unload files like PDFs or MP3s to the blockchain. The size of the metadata you can add to a transactions is limited to 16KB, and a character is, typically, 1 Byte, so that means you can add up to 1600 characters as metadata with any transaction.

Metadata can be used for many purposes the most common is to give some form of context to the transaction. Metadata has been used to store supply chain data, to send arbitrary message to be stored on the blockchain, and to store the hash of a document (allowing the blockchain to be used for proof-of-existence). People have used metadata, on the testnet, to immortalize the Cardano whitepaper, by writing it onto the blockchain as transactions across multiple transactions.

Many block explorers allow users to view and search transaction metadata. Remember, anything you add as metadata to a transaction will always be publicly available on the blockchain.

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MYTH

Blockchains are a secret way of transacting money and hiding the exchange of funds from others and authorities.

TRUTH

A blockchain is a transparent ledge, meaning that anyone can explore the transactions on it when given the tools. Those tools exist for all blockchains (except the few privacy chains that have been created that do in fact hid the exchange of funds).

Explorers allow anyone to search and explore all the transactions on the blockchain. The blockchain can be searched and explored in numerous ways using: wallet addresses, transaction IDs (TX ID), block numbers, epoch number, slot/epoch number, stake pool ticker, token ticker, staking keys. Users can also search for individual assets and transaction metadata if they have the information. Developers can use APIs to scrape data from the blockchain to inform all sorts of processes, programs, and to create data sets.

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