Compare Base vs Polkadot

Base TPS is 100% higher than Polkadot TPS

94.87 tx/s

0 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 100% higher than Polkadot transaction volume

341K txns

0 txns

Base block time is 66.85% shorter than Polkadot block time

2s

6.03s

Base finality is 26X longer than Polkadot finality

13m 13s

30s

Base has 155X more total transactions than Polkadot

7.15B txns

46M txns

Base was launched 3 years after Polkadot

Aug 9, 2023

May 26, 2020

Base Nakamoto Coefficient is 99.41% lower than Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient

1

171

Base has 99.83% fewer validators than Polkadot

1

600

Base has no data, while Polkadot stake is $675.5M

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$675.5M

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 83.59% fewer developers than Polkadot

1,490

9,081

Base has 96.75% fewer commits than Polkadot

22,764

701,724

Base has 86.46% fewer repos than Polkadot

75

554

Base has 2.22X more stars than Polkadot

79,034

35,587

Base has 62.27% fewer watchers than Polkadot

822

2,179

Base on-chain revenue is 1,502,438X higher than Polkadot on-chain revenue

$41.62K

$0.0277

Base average transaction fee is 78X higher than Polkadot average transaction fee

$0.005104

$0.00006549

Base has no data, while Polkadot market cap is $1.3B

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$1.3B

Base has no data, while Polkadot FDV is $1.607B

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$1.607B

Base has no data, while Polkadot Market Cap to FDV ratio is 80.86%

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80.86%

Base has no data, while Polkadot price is $0.7653

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$0.7653