Compare Base vs Polkadot

Base TPS is 7,181X higher than Polkadot TPS

117.8 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 7,182X higher than Polkadot transaction volume

424K txns

59 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 167X more total transactions than Polkadot

7.71B txns

46.1M txns

Base was launched 3 years after Polkadot

Aug 9, 2023

May 26, 2020

Base Nakamoto Coefficient is 99.43% lower than Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient

1

178

Base has 99.83% fewer validators than Polkadot

1

600

Base has no data, while Polkadot stake is $1.048B

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$1.048B

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 83.5% fewer developers than Polkadot

1,503

9,113

Base has 96.6% fewer commits than Polkadot

23,955

705,963

Base has 86.16% fewer repos than Polkadot

79

571

Base has 2.22X more stars than Polkadot

79,092

35,647

Base has 61.35% fewer watchers than Polkadot

839

2,171

Base on-chain revenue is 4,019X higher than Polkadot on-chain revenue

$95.19K

$23.69

Base average transaction fee is 9.56% lower than Polkadot average transaction fee

$0.01127

$0.01247

Base has no data, while Polkadot market cap is $1.953B

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$1.953B

Base has no data, while Polkadot FDV is $2.402B

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$2.402B

Base has no data, while Polkadot Market Cap to FDV ratio is 81.31%

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81.31%

Base has no data, while Polkadot price is $1.144

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$1.144