Retired with Orphaned Stake
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Total Orphaned ADA
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Affected Delegators
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Median Orphaned / Pool
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Forgone Rewards
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Dormant Since Retirement
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Stale Wallets
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Vs Network Active Stake
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Last Updated
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How this works: Stake figures come from Cardano db-sync, with Blockfrost used only as a fallback for missing pool tickers, never for stake. Retirement is verified by comparing on-chain certificate ordering, so a retirement certificate only counts when it is newer than any re-registration and the retirement epoch itself has passed. Orphaned stake is the sum of unspent UTxO balances plus unclaimed rewards for every registered stake address still delegated to a retired pool.
Delegator detection: for each stake address we take the latest delegation transaction. If it points at a retired pool and the stake key has not since been deregistered, the address counts as orphaned.
Balance calculation: the sum of all unspent UTxOs, plus lifetime rewards from both the reward and reward_rest tables, minus withdrawals. Including reward_rest matters: it holds refunds, treasury and reserve payouts, and leaving it out makes any wallet that withdrew one of those look overdrawn.
Delegator counts: "All" counts every registered stake address still delegated. "Above 5" counts those holding more than 5 ADA, which filters out dust and empty wallets.
Dormancy: three categories, not two. A delegator is dormant when their most recent still-unspent output and their most recent withdrawal both predate their pool's retirement certificate. Active means activity within the last 90 days. Stale sits between the two: activity after the retirement certificate, but none in the last 90 days. A dormant wallet is likely abandoned; an active wallet whose owner simply has not redelegated is a very different case; a stale wallet was touched after the pool died and has since gone quiet, and is shown as its own category rather than silently counting as neither. One overlap is possible: for a pool retired within the last 90 days, a wallet whose last activity falls between those two boundaries counts as both dormant and active, so the three categories can briefly sum to slightly more than the total until the retirement ages past the 90-day window.
Forgone rewards: an estimate, not a measurement. For each pool it is the orphaned stake multiplied by the actual network yield of each epoch since retirement (member and leader rewards over active stake, from db-sync), summed across those epochs. A flat annual rate can be applied instead as a manual override, and is labelled as such when in use. It assumes the stake sat orphaned for that whole period.
Trend history: snapshots begin with the first V11 refresher run. Nothing before that point exists or can be reconstructed, so the trend chart starts short and grows one point per epoch.
Refresh cycle: the heavy query runs on a schedule in the background and takes roughly 15 minutes. This page only ever reads the finished cache, so it always loads instantly.
Revised 27 August 2026: forgone rewards previously assumed a flat 3% annual return. They now use the actual network yield of each epoch the stake sat orphaned, which moved the headline figure from 5,121,220 ADA to 4,469,584 ADA at the time of the change. Two clarifications landed alongside, with no figures altered: the per-pool average now shows the median, since the mean sits far above it, and wallets active after retirement but quiet for 90 or more days now appear as their own "stale" category instead of counting as neither dormant nor active.
Caveat: retirement status is verified on-chain, but edge cases exist. Always cross-check with cexplorer.io or cardanoscan.io before acting on anything here. Click any row for full pool details, history and explorer links.
Analysis

Total orphaned stake per epoch

Is the problem growing or shrinking?
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Distribution of orphaned stake

A few huge pools, or a long tail?
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Retirement waves

Pools retiring per epoch, most recent 60 epochs with retirements.
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# Pool ID Ticker Name Orphaned Stake (A) Forgone (A) Delegators Deleg. above 5 Dormant Ret. Epoch Orphaned For Active Lifespan Blocks
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