Analytics: Dune and Cardano leaderboard
What it is
Dune is the pilot's public tracking layer. Every funded project tags its on-chain transactions with a standardized metadata label: a fixed identifier plus your project name. Tagged activity flows into a central Catalyst Impact dashboard maintained by the Cardano Foundation and also feeds the public leaderboard. Cardano data went live on Dune in April 2026; transactions, fees, staking, and smart-contract activity are all queryable.
What the pilot expects
Correct metadata tagging on your transactions from M1 onward. This label is the registered message tag the Transaction Integrity Standard requires you to declare at Milestone 1 (Standard §4.1). It is not just a convenience: where your product has no smart contract, the tag is your primary identifier, and a persistent, unexplained mismatch between your tag activity and your declared identifiers is itself grounds for a flag (Standard §11.1).
You do not build your own dashboard; the program provides it.
Dune produces no transactions and does not count toward the one-integration requirement.
Dashboards and the leaderboard surface your gross tagged activity. Your official number is your counted fees: what remains after the Transaction Integrity Standard's rules are applied (own wallets out, discounts and caps applied). It will normally be lower than what the public surfaces show, and that's expected. Where any dashboard or leaderboard and the counting tool disagree, the tool is the rule (Standard §6).
Get building
The metadata label specification and a tagging how-to (with an example transaction) will be published before onboarding; you don't need them to submit a proposal.
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