Hello all,
I saw that https://cexplorer.io/pot has the Cardano treasury amount (1.7B for instance), but where can I see where it goes from there? Is there any smart contract to trace? Or an address? As far as I remember, there was no address to trace(Cardano Treasury with Kevin Hammond | Community Governance Oversight), so I assume it made a different way but it have to be tracable, no?
Thanks!
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The treasury isn’t stored in a normal wallet or smart contract. It’s handled directly by the Cardano protocol.
I might be wrong but I don’t think you can trace It like a normal wallet because there’s no public address for it. But once funds are approved to be used (like through Project Catalyst or future on-chain governance), the treasury sends ADA to actual wallet addresses. At that point, you can trace exactly where the money went.
I hope in future this process will become even more transparent and traceable.
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Thank you very much, as far as I know one with with a Cardano node can look into the pots, so I assume the money is tracable, my assumption might be wrong as I understand, but as smart-contracts dictate the movement(Smart Contracts and Cardano budgets) it have to be tracable, no? 
Thank you again for your answer.
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The payouts that have been done from the treasury in the past can be seen here:
https://cardanoscan.io/certificates/InstantaneousRewards
In the future, there will be governance actions for each treasury withdrawal and those are tracked on all the explorers.
Unfortunately, none of the explorers has a really good representation of how much is currently in the reserve and the treasury, but both values can be queried, e.g., with https://api.koios.rest/#get-/totals.
To get that information from a node that you run yourself, the node alone is probably not enough, but you would probably also want cardano-db-sync
which reads out the information from the chain history into a more easily accessible database.
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