Real-time TPS
Avalanche TPS is 97.78% less than NEAR TPS
2.12 tx/s
95.56 tx/s
Max Recorded TPS
Avalanche max TPS is 72.84% less than NEAR max TPS
92.74 tx/s
342 tx/s
Max Theoretical TPS
Avalanche max theoretical TPS is 97.02% less than NEAR max theoretical TPS
357 tx/s
12,000 tx/s
Block Time
Avalanche block time is 1.83X more than NEAR block time
2.06s
1.13s
Finality
Avalanche finality is 100% less than NEAR finality
0s
2s
Type
Avalanche and NEAR are both layer 1 blockchains
Layer 1 blockchain
Layer 1 blockchain
Governance
Avalanche on-chain governance is better than NEAR council governance
On-chain
Council
Launch Date
Avalanche was launched 5 months after NEAR
Sep 21, 2020
Apr 22, 2020
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About Blockchains
About Blockchains
Avalanche emerges as a rapid, scalable blockchain platform facilitating the seamless creation and deployment of dApps. Distinguished by its unique consensus mechanism, it's particularly good for DeFi applications, allowing high throughput and nearly instant finality. Its architecture allows for a network of interconnected blockchains, each safeguarded by dynamic subsets of validators, ensuring scalability while maintaining speed, reliability, and security.
About Blockchains
NEAR is the chain abstraction stack, empowering builders to create apps that scale to billions of users and across all blockchains.