Real-time TPS

Cardano TPS is 99.91% less than ICP TPS

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1.22 tx/s
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1,520 tx/s

Max Recorded TPS

Cardano max TPS is 99.95% less than ICP max TPS

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11.62 tx/s
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25,621 tx/s

Max Theoretical TPS

Cardano max theoretical TPS is 99.99% less than ICP max theoretical TPS

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18.02 tx/s
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209,708 tx/s

Block Time

Cardano block time is 46X more than ICP block time

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21.99s
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0.48s

Finality

Cardano finality is 100% more than ICP finality

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2m
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0s

Type

Cardano and ICP are both layer 1 blockchains

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Layer 1 blockchain
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Layer 1 blockchain

Governance

Cardano and ICP governance are both coming soon

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On-chain
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On-chain

Launch Date

Cardano was launched 4 years before ICP

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Sep 27, 2017
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May 10, 2021

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About Blockchains

About Blockchains

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 Blockchains

The Internet Computer enables you to build anything without traditional IT and Big Tech. It hosts decentralized serverless compute that’s simpler, immune to cyber attack, unstoppable, and controllable by DAOs. Next-generation smart contracts (named Canisters) that hold both code and state enable truly Decentralized AI. Canisters use Chain Fusion technology to write transctions directly to other chains without centralized bridges, enabling secure multi-chain dapps. Build social, defi, games, e-commerce, enterprise or any kind of application or service on ICP. The internet is evolving.

Blockchains Socials

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