Compare Cardano vs Polkadot

Cardano TPS is 24X higher than Polkadot TPS

0.4 tx/s

0.02 tx/s

Cardano max TPS is 97.45% lower than Polkadot max TPS

11.77 tx/s

462.7 tx/s

Cardano max theoretical TPS is 98.19% lower than Polkadot max theoretical TPS

18.02 tx/s

1,000 tx/s

Cardano transaction volume is 24X higher than Polkadot transaction volume

1.43K txns

60 txns

Cardano block time is 3.16X longer than Polkadot block time

18.99s

6s

Cardano finality is 4X longer than Polkadot finality

2m

30s

Cardano has 2.74X more total transactions than Polkadot

126M txns

46.1M txns

Cardano was launched 3 years before Polkadot

Sep 27, 2017

May 26, 2020

Cardano Nakamoto Coefficient is 91.62% lower than Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient

15

179

Cardano has 3.45X more validators than Polkadot

2,072

600

Cardano stake is 4.65X higher than Polkadot stake

$4.693B

$1.01B

Cardano is PoS, while Polkadot is Nominated Proof of Stake

Proof of Stake (PoS)

Nominated Proof of Stake

Cardano and Polkadot governance are both on-chain

On-chain

On-chain

Cardano has 57.63% fewer developers than Polkadot

3,864

9,120

Cardano has 55.8% fewer commits than Polkadot

312,125

706,207

Cardano has 60.38% fewer repos than Polkadot

227

573

Cardano has 64.84% fewer stars than Polkadot

12,530

35,646

Cardano has 1.01X more watchers than Polkadot

2,203

2,171

Cardano on-chain revenue is 94X higher than Polkadot on-chain revenue

$2.192K

$23.3

Cardano average transaction fee is 4.2X higher than Polkadot average transaction fee

$0.06866

$0.01635

Cardano market cap is 4.27X higher than Polkadot market cap

$8.128B

$1.903B

Cardano FDV is 4.25X higher than Polkadot FDV

$9.936B

$2.34B

Cardano Market Cap to FDV ratio is 1.01X higher than Polkadot Market Cap to FDV ratio

81.80%

81.33%

Cardano price is 80.18% lower than Polkadot price

$0.2208

$1.114