Compare Base vs Polkadot

Base TPS is 6,349X higher than Polkadot TPS

102.2 tx/s

0.02 tx/s

Base max TPS is 5.44X higher than Polkadot max TPS

2,515 tx/s

462.7 tx/s

Base max theoretical TPS is 3.57X higher than Polkadot max theoretical TPS

3,571 tx/s

1,000 tx/s

Base transaction volume is 6,341X higher than Polkadot transaction volume

368K txns

58 txns

Base block time is 66.62% shorter than Polkadot block time

2s

5.99s

Base finality is 26X longer than Polkadot finality

13m 13s

30s

Base has 164X more total transactions than Polkadot

7.54B txns

46M txns

Base was launched 3 years after Polkadot

Aug 9, 2023

May 26, 2020

Base Nakamoto Coefficient is 99.42% lower than Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient

1

175

Base has 99.83% fewer validators than Polkadot

1

600

Base has no data, while Polkadot stake is $1.007B

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$1.007B

Base is Rollup (Optimistic), while Polkadot is Nominated Proof of Stake

Rollup (Optimistic)

Nominated Proof of Stake

Base off-chain governance is worse than Polkadot on-chain governance

Off-chain

On-chain

Base has 83.61% fewer developers than Polkadot

1,492

9,107

Base has 96.66% fewer commits than Polkadot

23,531

704,855

Base has 86.09% fewer repos than Polkadot

79

568

Base has 2.22X more stars than Polkadot

79,084

35,652

Base has 61.6% fewer watchers than Polkadot

834

2,172

Base on-chain revenue is 7,071X higher than Polkadot on-chain revenue

$154.1K

$21.8

Base average transaction fee is 1.67X higher than Polkadot average transaction fee

$0.01481

$0.008851

Base has no data, while Polkadot market cap is $1.868B

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$1.868B

Base has no data, while Polkadot FDV is $2.302B

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$2.302B

Base has no data, while Polkadot Market Cap to FDV ratio is 81.15%

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81.15%

Base has no data, while Polkadot price is $1.096

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$1.096