The Essential Cardano list provides an outline and accompanying map of the Cardano ecosystem and a central library of materials, which includes official IOG, Cardano Foundation, and Emurgo resources, as well as community-generated materials, and a list of active stake pools.
This list is fully open source so we hope that you can help us to grow and fine tune our recommendations to make our list even better. We encourage you to let us know of new content that is being produced by the community, new relationships, new innovations, so that we can add them all to this list and build out the ecosystem.
Here is an outline of the categories:
- Core Organizations
- Oracles
- Enterprise & Business Ecosystem
- Startups
- Strategic Partners and Collaborators
- Layer 2 Solutions
- Deployments
- DeFi and Capital Markets
- Governments
- Exchanges
- Payments
- Incubators and Funding
- Developer Ecosystem
- Programming Languages
- Developer Resources
- Wallets
- Metadata
- Ada Calculators
- Research and Education
- Standards/Consortia
- Top Tier Research Conferences
- Education Institutions and Blockchain Labs
- Infrastructure & Security
- Project Catalyst Startups
- Exploring Stake Pools
- Stake Pools
- Other IOHK Solutions
- Essential Resources
- Games & Entertainment
- SingularityNET
- Mukn
- Obsidian Systems
- Vacuumlabs
- QuiviQ
- Atix
- Konfidio
- Five Binaries
- Runtime Verification
- PWC
- Orion
- Celsius Network
- Tweag
- Well Typed
- Ncube
- Bloxico
- LunaTech
- Bairesdev
- Alt Labs
- Scalac
- Eleks
- Node Factory
- Metalamp
- Dquadrant
- Mlabs
- BinarApps
- World Mobile
- Ice Addis
- iCog Labs
- Save the Children
- Blockchain Association of Kenya
- BitAprica
- Platform Africa
- YellowCard
- PayWay Ethiopia
- Chaptr
- Africa Tech Summit
- Afri Labs
- Sonergy
- dcSpark
- Nexo
- Nervos
- Indigo
- AgeUSD
- New Balance
- BeefChain
- Scantrust
- Blue Korintji Coffee
- Alko Coffee
- Coinbase
- BΓΆrse Stuttgart
- Binance
- Kraken
- Bittrex
- Huobi
- Kucoin
- Bitthumb
- Bitfinex
- Crypto.com
- Etoro
- LATOKEN
- Gate.io
- Bitbns
- NBX
- Coti
- Sirin Labs
- Metaps+
- AdaPay
- Shopify
- WooCommerce
- Simplex
- Revuto
- Project Catalyst
- Y2X
- Dlab
- DC-fund
- C-fund
- Treasury Wave
Here is an outline of the developer ecosystem and relevant resources to help you learn how to build on Cardano.
- Haskell
- Learn You a Haskell guide
- (Russian) Π€ΡΠ½ΠΊΡΠΈΠΎΠ½Π°Π»ΡΠ½ΠΎΠ΅ ΠΏΡΠΎΠ³ΡΠ°ΠΌΠΌΠΈΡΠΎΠ²Π°Π½ΠΈΠ΅ Π½Π° ΡΠ·ΡΠΊΠ΅ Haskell (stepik.org)
- Marlowe explainer
- Marlowe Playground
- Marlowe tutorial
- Marlowe in Cardano explained
- Marlowe Official Telegram
- Marlowe Udemy course (v. 1) (for background reading only, the development environment has changed. Version 2 will be out soon.)
- Plutus overview
- Plutus Playground
- Plutus tutorials
- Plutus community documentation
- Plutus ebook (for background reading only, the development environment has changed. Version 2 will be out soon)
- Plutus Udemy course (v. 1) (for background reading only, the development environment has changed. Version 2 will be out soon)
These materials have been produced by the Plutus Pioneer course participants:
- Plutus Community Documentation GitBook
- Plutus Pioneer Program
- Overview of Lecture 1
- Installing the Plutus Playground
- Setting up the Plutus Playground in a Docker container
- How to get the Plutus Playground up and running
- Awesome Plutus
- Plutus Pioneer Program on Github
- Alonzo testnet walkthrough materials
- Cardano testnet
- IELE
- Metadata
- Atlas Adrestia
- EVM
- KEVM
- Daedalus
- Yoroi
- Trezor
- Infinito wallet
- Ledger
- Adalite
- Atomic wallet
- Tangem
- Ellipal
- Crypto Storage AG
- Medusa Adawallet
- Revolut
- Guarda Wallet
- GeroWallet
- ccwallet.io
- B58 Finance
- NamiWallet
- ccwallet
- CardWallet
- Game Changer Wallet
- Adaly Wallet
- Hyperledger
- Alpha Frontier
- Berkman Klein Center
- IBM Research
- Priveledge
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Wyoming
- University of Kent
- University of Cambridge
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- National Technical University Of Athens
- Athens University of Economics and Business
- UCL
- KHARKIV National Medical University
- UCONN
- University of Oxford
- Zhejiang University
- University of Zurich
- University of Geneva
- Zigurat Global Institute of Technology
- Frankfurt Business School
- University of Mauritius
- European Business University of Luxembourg (EBU)
- Gemini Cryptopedia
- Quantstamp
- FP Complete
- R9B
- Nagra
- Liqwid: Cardano DeFi Lending Markets
- Cardano Starter Kits + APIs (Gimbalabs)
- PoolTool Platform Upgrade
- Lovelace Academy Marlowe Plutus
- Haskell/Plutus/Marlowe Education
- Ouroboros over RINA
- Create message signing standard
- Pet Registry dApp + β³Pay API
- Cardano for Mobile dApp Developers
- IoT Utility Dapp - Sign Tx Arduino
- Japan Cardano Governance Association-Meetings & Communities & Podcasts
- Liqwid:Cardano DeFi Liquidity Pools
- Ada Tx to Trigger IoT + IO HW Spins
- Comprehensive NFT Framework Collab
- Digital Asset Inheritance
- Decentralized Accounting <- IFRS
- Food traceability solution - Africa
- Dapp for business contracts
- The Basket DApp - ε£²θ²·γ«γΌγ
- Python module
- Visual Studio Smart Contract Plugin
- Liqwid Developer Portal:Cardano SDK
- CardanoSharp - .NET Library
- Developer & SPO Tools [CNTools]
- Cardano IntelliJ IDEA Plugin (MVP)
- Cardano serialization library in Go
- Metadata oracle node
- ABCD
- ADA MakerSpace - DEV lessons
- Metadata oracles explorer
- Write Dapps as continuous workflows
- Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
- Scale-UP Cardano's DeFi Ecosystem
- Address Gap in SPO Education/Comms
- [Liqwid:Cardano DeFi Liquidity Pools]
- [Ada Tx to Trigger IoT + IO HW Spins]
- [Comprehensive NFT Framework Collab]
- [Digital Asset Inheritance]
- [Decentralized Accounting <- IFRS]
- [Food traceability solution - Africa]
- [Dapp for business contracts]
- [The Basket DApp - ε£²θ²·γ«γΌγ]
- [Python module]
- [Visual Studio Smart Contract Plugin]
- [Liqwid Developer Portal:Cardano SDK]
- [CardanoSharp - .NET Library]
- [Developer & SPO Tools [CNTools]]
- [Cardano IntelliJ IDEA Plugin (MVP)]
- [Cardano serialization library in Go]
- [Metadata oracle node]
- [ABCD]
- [ADA MakerSpace - DEV lessons]
- [Metadata oracles explorer]
- [Write Dapps as continuous workflows]
- [Grow Africa, Grow Cardano]
- [Scale-UP Cardano's DeFi Ecosystem]
- [Address Gap in SPO Education/Comms]
- [Haskell Devs for Liqwid Plutus SC's]
- [Cardano On-Chain Voting]
- [Littercoin - Mass Adoption]
- [PlayerMint: Token System for Gamers]
- [Cardax - DEX on Cardano]
- [Real Estate Investment Platform]
- [Cardano-based Marketplace]
- [Haskell DeFi SDK for Plutus Devs]
- [Ouroboros Networking Lib in JS]
- [Rust SDK for Blockfrost API]
- [Yoroi β Blockfrost bridge]
- [PoolTool-Testnet Support]
- [JavaScript SDK for Blockfrost API]
- [Nodeless command line interface]
- [Haskell SDK for Blockfrost API]
- ["ADA" Visual Scripting VSCode Ext.]
- [Python SDK for Blockfrost API]
- [AdaStat.net Platform Upgrade]
- [Arduino SDK for Blockfrost API]
- [Visual Studio Code Market Plugin]
- [Live Coding Mentor Marketplace]
- [West Africa: Dev Tools & Events]
- [pruf.io: Media-rich NFTs on Cardano]
- [Java SDK for Blockfrost API]
- [Swift SDK for Blockfrost API]
- [Kotlin SDK for Blockfrost API]
- [.NET SDK for Blockfrost API]
- [Golang SDK for Blockfrost API]
- [Ruby SDK for Blockfrost API]
- [Scala SDK for Blockfrost API]
- [Elixir SDK for Blockfrost API]
- [HW wallet passphrase recovery tool]
- [Infographics - Series 1]
- [Diversify Voting Influence]
- [The Great Filter]
- [West Africa Proposer Outreach]
- [Free Online Course about Catalyst]
- [University/College Outreach]
- [Project Catalyst Landing Page]
- [Cardano Podcast Interviews w/Teams]
- [Guided Onboarding Experience]
- [West Africa Catalyst Onboarding]
- [Cardano Mobile App]
- [Local Centers in West Africa]
- [Cardano Adoption in D.R. of Congo]
- [Cardano spanish training programs]
- [Cardano China Info Hub]
- [Education/Developer center - Sweden
- [Cardano Emerging Threat Alarm]
- [Multilingual resources]
- [DeFi and Microlending for Africa]
- [DLT Entrepreneurship Toolbox]
- [Partnerships for Global Adoption]
- [NFT-DAO NFT metadata standards]
- [Meta-Memory (Fmrly Fed. Debate)]
- [Adagov.org (Co-creation)]
- Testnet Cardanoscan Explorer
- Cardano Rust SDK update for Alonzo
- C# SDK for Blockfrost API
- Elixir SDK
- Cardano JS API
- Cardano Wallet Flutter SDK
- Metadata oracle endpoint in Yoroi
- Websocket link for Blockfrost API
- NFT Key
- Cardano IPFS chronicles
- Glow Formal verification
- Free Commerce payment gateway
- Localize Yoroi for Slovak market
- End-to-End No-code Cardano Apps
- Localize Yoroi for Czech market
- Arnot - iOS SDK
- NFT Guaranteed Storage
- Quality-Assurance-DAO
- NFT-DAO EZ-Pay API wallet connector
- Artificial Intelligence/ML API
- Step-by-Step Guide: Off-Chain Code
- NFT-DAO EZ-On Interop NFTs
- NFT-DAO EZ-Name
- Tokenizing GitHub Pull request
- Cardano Connector (Metamask-like)
- The Quest for ADA
- nft-maker.io -> Full NFT platform
- DaPassword - a password manager
- iGIVit - The Future of Giving
- NFT-DAO EZ-Honor contribution token
- Catalyst Community Tools
- Catalyst Site: Project tracking
- Open Ideas and Data For Cooperation
- Tutorial for Community Advisors
- IdeaScale Improvements
- Developer Evangelist Japan
- Catalyst Site: Collaborators list
- FREE MONEY Direct Marketing
- WADA Media Funnel for Proposers
- Hands-On Marketing in Addis Ababa
- ALDEA Wiki - Cardano Encyclopedia
- Inner-View with KEWW Video Series
- WADA Uni Students Catalyst Registry
- PCDiscord - Bot to Assign Roles
- ALDEA Catalyst Spanish Support Site
- Barriers to Entry = Proposals
- Catalyst Site:Improve proposal data
- PCDiscord Miro board for Onboarding
- Catalyst Site: Education resources
- PCDiscord - Bot to create channels
- Charles Hoskinson in Russian
- Control your data - privacy ledger
- Graph DB Sidechain with Fluree
- Oracle Performance Metrics
- Blockchain Authentication Mechanism
- C64 NFTs Minter(on-chain+identity)
- Africa Opensource Pharma & Medicine
- No-Code For Creative Africa
- Introducing Empowa
- Cardano Student Clubs in Ethiopia
- ADA news in African languages
- Networking events
- Paper wallet terminal for in a shop
- Cashout and Buy ADA in Ethiopia
- Liqwid Protocol Security Audit
- Liqwid x Credmark R&D on Loan Risks
- MinSwap - Multi-pool DEX
- Dandelion: Cardano API market
- Smart Contract Audit Token SCAT DAO
- NFT Business models
- Atala PRISM DID Mass-Scale Adoption
- Disaster: When all is at stake
- Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs
- Improve and Grow Auditability
- ErgoDex Plutus Port
IOHK has developed a stake pool metadata aggregation server (SMASH) to provide the community with a list of verified stake pools with valid metadata. Smash is integrated with the Daedalus wallet, and users can see a list of valid stake pools in the delegation center tab.
Within the Daedalus settings you can set a custom SMASH server to browse member pools from pool alliances. The custom SMASH servers available include:
You can also explore stake pools using these tools:
- ADApools.org
- Cardano PoolTool
- ADAtainment
- POOLSTATS
- Adatools (pools)
- Cardanoscan (pools)
- AdaStat (pools)
- List of stake pools (unofficial)
Here is our essential list of Cardano resources.
- Cardano official website
- Cardano Documentation
- Cardano Developers
- Cardano Roadmap
- IOHK Research Library
- IO GitHub
- IO Blog
- IOHK You Tube
- IO Twitter
- IO Tik Tok
- Technical Support
- Cardano Ambassadors
- Cardano tutorials
- Mission of Cardano
- Cardano 360 monthly show playlist
- Project Catalyst playlist
- Cardano Foundation official site
- Stake pool school course
- CIPs repository
- Cardano Foundation on Medium
- Emurgo official website
- Unspent transaction outputs in Cardano
- UTxO primer
- Financial transactions on Cardano
- Cardano Official Telegram
- Cardano Announcements Telegram
- Cardano developers Telegram
- Cardano Discord
- Cardano developers Reddit
- Cardano Stack Exchange
- How to submit a CIP
- Read the explainers in the New to Cardano? section of Cardano Docs
- New to Cardano guide (community-generated)
- How to start with Cardano for newbies
- Beginner's guide to Cardano (Kraken)
- What is Cardano? (Coinbase)
- Cardano Delegation Manual (Publicly versionable gitbook)
- Cardano Explorer
- Grafana Dashboard
- Staking calculator
- Native Tokens on Mainnet Dashboard
- NFT Marketplace
- NFT-MAKER.IO
- Cardano Alerts
Tools to help you build on Cardano:
- NFTada.io
- Block Frost
- cardanocli-js library
- Emurgo Cardano Serialization Library
- Dandelion APIs
- Ogmios
- Transaction Metadata Browser
- Cardano Assets
- Cardano Token Tool
- Cardano Client Lib Java Library
- .NET Cryptographic and Serialization Library
- New to Cardano guide
- Guild Operators
- Coin Cashew - How to build a Cardano stake pool
- big pey's video tutorials for stake pools
- Build a stake pool: CN Tools
- What is Cardano?
- Who builds on Cardano?
- How to start on Cardano for newbies
- Guild Operators: CN Tools
- JorManager
- StakePool Operator Scripts
- cncli
- StakePool Operator ToolsAlliance
- Cardano with Paul
- Cardano epoch calendar
- ada best
- Cardano Assets
- Adaex.org
- Cardano Wall
- Cardano Canucks
- Cardano Updates
- Cardano Staking FAQ
- Pooltool.io
- Pool.pm
- Adastat
- Clio
- Seeada
- Cardano Community
- Adafolio
- Cardano Blockchain Insights
- Bitbucket
- Hitchhiker's Guides
- Voting by Dust
- Python LeaderLog and getSigma scripts
- Cardano scripts
- Cardano cards
- Cardano Waves
- ADApools
- NFT Explorer
- MakeAdaPool.com - All-in-one guide to build a Cardano stake pool
- Cardano academic content
- Academic papers list
- CNFT Hub
- Cardano Cube
- Lovelace academy
- Cardano node installation guide (written in English and translated into Russian and German)
- ADAkawaii
- Kryptoids
- Stiks
- NFT-Craze Gallery
- ADACoinsNFT
- unsigned_algorithms
- The Hoskinsons
- Cardano Caricatures
- Trybbles
- Cardano Space
- [Cryptoverse]
- Cardano Fighters
- CryptoPetz
- Aeoniumsky
- Spacebudz
- Cozy Space NFT
- Project Kifaru
- BitBunny
- Cardano Kidz
- Adalotls & Co.
- Sushibyte
- Kaizen NFT
- Neverengine
- Cryptoknitties
- [The Sheriff]
- Cryptoplushies
- Rose CNFT
- Deveerei
- Cardano Monsters
- CozySpace CNFT
- Street Arts CNFT
- Doodz
- Cardano Chronicles
- Cardano Llamas
- Canuckz NFT
- ADA-Monsterz
- Caja de Agua
- CardAmigos
- Cardania
- Cardanobits
- Cardano Bobclats
- The Cardanians
- Ada Miners
- Ada Plates
- Ada Buildings
- Mipa Toys
- Isometrices
- Swankpie
- DEADPXLZ
- David's Flat
- Cardano Comics
- Unsigned Teddys
- Cardano Beans
- Cardano Waifus
- Shark NFTs
- [Cardano Tunes]
- Cult Leader NFT
- Cardano Warriors
- Li'l Goats
- Jet Chicken NFTs
- Mr. Intangible
- Backwards Geometry
- Cardano Countries
- [CMBYN] (https://t.co/kVcVhceqc4?amp=1)
- Fahadouken NFT
- Stellar Hood NFT
- Anim8bits
- Cardano Robin Stamps Inc.
- Sacred
- Glus CNFT
- Alpha_TJ
- Visions NFT
- Cryptomayor
- The Cryptoverse
- ADAbots
- [Doggos]
- Maluiin Pool NFT
- Cryptodelic Art
- Atreyu
- The Attack on Vitalik
- No Prob-llama
- Mosies Burgina
- Boss Lenda
- Laura Lovelace
- Politikoz
- NFT Surf
- Crypto Sports
- ACPhoto
- Fernando Torelli
- End Drugs NFT
- Cardano Potions
- Colorful Screens
- Hogsters
- Pink Rain
- Beyond Rockets
- Herkimer
- MAD in Art
- Clay Mates
- Lowpolyproject
- Cardinos
- Isla Diwa
- Coruna
- Cardano Amigos
- Yasen Chariyski
- Ydesh
- Charles Gitnick
- Marshall
- Bosmaus
- Slice of Art
- [Jason Matias] https://t.co/kpy380gJYs?amp=1)
- ADA Dreams
- Olie Merza
- [Avocardano] https://t.co/J1c9O56JzQ?amp=1)
- Blizzeffect
- GlitchCreation
- [Ponchos] https://t.co/cgKwseBGIl?amp=1)
- Ave Musiqa
- Creepy Cardano
- H.Y.P.E
- Retro NFTs
- IOLY Catloaf
- RETRO
- Nihilism Fulltime
- Triptych
- The Voyager
- Fonnk
- Sanero Rai
- Chaotic Mathematics
- Flue Frog
- ADA Birds
- AdRinsu
- Joseph Miranda
- EntheosAI
- [Bunny G]
- Crypties NFT
- Encryptants
- Cardano Idols
- Cicada NFT
- Noodle Fighter Titans
- PsychADAlias
- SoccaDoodz
- OutOfTheWorld
- Stigma Trading Cards
- NFTY
- Garlic Soul Art
- Cardano Trees
- Cardano Puzzle
- Cardano Apes
- Hash Guardians
- Crew NFT
- Pixano NFT
- [Cardano Mirrors]
- [Cardano Freaks]
- RWP NFT
- Yummi Universe
- ADA-Monsterz
- [Karranka Ink]
- The Galgos
- [Claudia]
- Secret Decks
- [nusigs]
- MonADA
- ADA Dolls
- Cardano FC
- Professor Cardano
- Cardano Gods
- Flawwed1
- Cardano Gang
- Boom Popz
- BobaBits
- Cardano Heroes
- Red Palm
- Masha's Colour Book
- The Ronin Universe
- Darkartopia
- Flowers For Lovelace
- Frigid Optics
- withspaces
- Cardano Conjurer
- PlanetPalz
- The Atomic Heroes
- The Rokindo Collective
- Hide! Series
- Ada Hitz!
- ADArtsy
- My Celial Gallery
- Ada Jam
- [Crypto Fruits]
- The Onadracs
- ADA Racers
- 2140 by whitspaces
- DexoWorlds
- Mr. Cooper
- Exclusive Quintets
- Cardano Keys
- ADA Coins NFT
- CyberPunks
- [Sophie's Gallery]
- Rotatoes
- Meens
- CryptoDoggies
- Chibidango Heroes
- Cardano Kombat
- Cadabears
- Ada Astrology
- Institute Ecoterm Modular
- Cardanime Coins
- Wizard Crypt
- Cardano Pizza
- Daily Dose NFT
- Nifty Teddy
- Cardamigos 2.0
- Cardano Beasts
- Nothing Collectibles
- Adaliens
- Crypto Heroez
- DadADAJokes
- Da Wanted
- Adamobile
- Liberty Crypto
- Blockchainbodhi
- YoulDesign
- Vanity Trophies
- BitPunk!
- NFTUpdate
- NFT-MAKER
- Cardano Native Token
- Artano
- Tokhun
- NFT-Dao
- Theos
- CNFT
- Xhibit
- Easy CNFT Art
- Lavada Artist
- Mermaida
- CNFT Premium Exchange
- somint
- CNFT Wiki
- CardanoNFT
- NFT Key
- nftdotio
- Lovelace Marketplace
- PoolPM
- Tangocrypto
- Spores
- Adaminthouse
- Cardanoart
- Updephye
- Built On Cardano
- Cardano Tales
- Playermint
- Adazoo
- Cardacity
- Fanance Club
- Blockchaingames
- Drunken Dragon Games
- Cardania
- Lovelace Saga
- Cardano Empires
- Enpimony Thrones
- Adafolio
- Crypto Mob
- JES Art
- The Crypto MOB
- Trong Le
- PIGY Token
- adadomains.io
- twitternfts.space
- CardanoBudz.io
- Exnft.io
- Alliance list
- Armada Alliance
- Cardano Single Pool Alliance
- Cardano Bare Metal Alliance
- Mission-Driven Pools
- F2LB First 2 Lifetime Block community
- CCSPA
- Stake Pool Operator Tools Alliance
- Cardano Pools United
- Swiss CardaNation
- SPO JAPAN GUILD
Lists of active stakepools can be found on: