# Base vs Etherlink

Side-by-side fundamentals for Base and Etherlink tracked by Chainspect.

| Metric                       | Base                | Etherlink           |
| ---------------------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- |
| Real-time TPS (1H)           | 144.7 tx/s          | 2.67 tx/s           |
| Max TPS (100 blocks)         | 2.51K tx/s          | 43.35 tx/s          |
| Theoretical TPS              | 3.57K tx/s          | 1.29K tx/s          |
| Transaction Volume (1H)      | 521K txns           | 9.62K txns          |
| Block Time (1H)              | 200ms               | 938ms               |
| Finality Time                | 13m 13s             | 18s                 |
| Total Transactions           | 7.95B txns          | 107M txns           |
| Launch Date                  | Aug 9, 2023         | Feb 25, 2025        |
| Nakamoto Coefficient         | 1                   | 1                   |
| Validators/Miners            | 1                   | 1                   |
| Stake/Hashrate               | —                   | —                   |
| Consensus Mechanism          | Rollup (Optimistic) | Rollup (Optimistic) |
| Governance                   | Off-chain           | On-chain            |
| On-Chain Revenue (1D)        | $126K               | $53.6               |
| Average Transaction Fee (1D) | $0.0142             | $0.000278           |
| Price                        | —                   | —                   |
| Market Cap                   | —                   | —                   |
| FDV                          | —                   | —                   |
| Market Cap / FDV             | —                   | —                   |
| Developers                   | 1,470               | 184                 |
| Commits                      | 23,849              | 4,850               |
| Repos                        | 78                  | 18                  |
| Stars                        | 78,748              | 23                  |

Source: https://chainspect.app/compare/base-vs-etherlink