About this ecosystem
asy.life is a small, open set of tools that observe and preserve the public life of the Cardano ecosystem — governance, treasury, projects, and funding history — and serve all of it through one read-only API. It does not rank, score, or guess at intent. It records what is verifiably there, with its source attached.
What is this ecosystem?
Several connected surfaces, one shared foundation. The Observatory shows Cardano on-chain governance — the top-30 DReps, governance actions, the treasury, and delegation movement. Project Memory records the ecosystem's projects and the categories that organize them. The Catalyst archive preserves the community-funding history. The Connected Treasury Framework (CTF) is a proposal layer for how a connected treasury could work. Underneath them all is the Data Layer API, which serves every piece as plain JSON.
Everything is bilingual (English and Japanese), the code is Apache-2.0, and the data is CC0. There are no accounts, no wallet connections, no trading, and nothing to log into. It is a public reference, not a product.
Why does it exist?
Because the public record of an ecosystem is fragile. Funding rounds close and their portals go offline. Project directories vanish. Governance data is spread across tools that come and go. When that happens, the shared memory of what was built, funded, and decided quietly disappears — and with it the ability to hold a clear, common view of the ecosystem.
This project exists to keep that record open, sourced, and durable — and to make it observable without imposing a judgment on it. The guiding line is simple: observe movement, do not infer motive. We show what happened and where the data came from; the reader draws the conclusions.
What is Memory?
Memory is the preservation half of the project. It is an append-only, event-sourced record: facts are written as claims, each claim carries its provenance, and the log is hash-chained so the history cannot be quietly rewritten. Nothing is overwritten — corrections are added as new events, and the past stays legible.
There are four memory layers — Governance, Treasury, Catalyst, and Project memory. Together they answer a single question honestly: what do we actually know, and how do we know it? Memory preserves and observes. It never interprets, ranks, or speculates about intent.
What is Data?
Data is the access half. The Data Layer API (api.asy.life) serves all of it as read-only JSON — no API key, open CORS, so anyone can build on it. Every response carries a _quality block stating the source, an authority class (A on-chain · B official · C at-risk · D community · E researcher), the refresh cadence, and a confidence note.
Coverage is stated honestly rather than implied. Where data is partial — for example the tracked token set is a curated seed set, not the whole ecosystem — the page and the API say so. Where a value is unknown, it is returned as null with a note, never invented. Nothing is fabricated to look more complete than it is.
The principles
Where to go next. See the ecosystem map, the live status & coverage, the documentation index, or the API at api.asy.life/docs.