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XRP Ledger Compare Cardano vs ICP
Open in ChatGPTCardano vs ICP Scalability
Real-time TPS (1H)
Cardano TPS is 99.97% lower than ICP TPS
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Max TPS (100 blocks)
Cardano max TPS is 99.95% lower than ICP max TPS
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Max Theoretical TPS
Cardano max theoretical TPS is 99.99% lower than ICP max theoretical TPS
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Transaction Volume (1H)
Cardano transaction volume is 99.97% lower than ICP transaction volume
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Block Time (1H)
Cardano block time is 46X longer than ICP block time
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Finality
Cardano finality is 100% longer than ICP finality
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Type
Cardano and ICP are both layer 1 blockchains
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Total Transactions (All time)
Cardano has 99.95% fewer total transactions than ICP
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Launch Date
Cardano was launched 4 years before ICP
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Cardano vs ICP Decentralization
Nakamoto Coefficient
Cardano Nakamoto Coefficient is 2X higher than ICP Nakamoto Coefficient
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Validators
Cardano has 3.2X more validators than ICP
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Stake
Cardano stake is 7.12X higher than ICP stake
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Consensus Mechanism
Cardano is PoS, while ICP is Proof of Useful Work
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Governance
Cardano and ICP governance are both on-chain
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Cardano vs ICP Developer Activity
Developers
Cardano has 4.73X more developers than ICP
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Commits
Cardano has 2.43X more commits than ICP
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Repos
Cardano has 1.26X more repos than ICP
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Stars
Cardano has 1.48X more stars than ICP
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Watchers
Cardano has 1.31X more watchers than ICP
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Cardano vs ICP Financials New
Chain Revenue
Cardano chain revenue is 75.25% lower than ICP chain revenue
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Average Transaction Fee
Cardano average transaction fee is 787X higher than ICP average transaction fee
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Market Cap
Cardano market cap is 5.25X higher than ICP market cap
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FDV
Cardano FDV is 6.48X higher than ICP FDV
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Market Cap / FDV
Cardano Market Cap to FDV ratio is 18.99% lower than ICP Market Cap to FDV ratio
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Price
Cardano price is 92.01% lower than ICP price
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Cardano vs ICP Real-time TPS Chart
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About Blockchains
About Cardano
Cardano is a proof-of-stake blockchain platform: the first to be founded on peer-reviewed research and developed through evidence-based methods. It combines pioneering technologies to provide unparalleled security and sustainability to decentralized applications, systems, and societies.
About ICP
The Internet Computer is a decentralized cloud blockchain that pursues the $1+ trillion cloud market — hosting apps, websites and enterprise systems, fully onchain, where they benefit from extraordinary security and resilience, can do multi-chain token processing, and can be administered in a decentralized way for safety.
A core purpose is “self-writing cloud”, where AI creates apps for mass market users, which are sophisticated and secure, in response to instructions they provide over chat.
The ICP token is burned powering onchain apps, and is a cryptocurrency used in network governance staking.
It’s easy to try — use AI to create onchain apps (e.g. caffeine.ai) or use an online IDE to write serverless code yourself (e.g. icp.ninja)!