Compare Cardano vs Polkadot

Cardano TPS is 22X higher than Polkadot TPS

0.36 tx/s

0.02 tx/s

Cardano max TPS is 97.48% lower than Polkadot max TPS

11.62 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 22X higher than Polkadot transaction volume

1.28K txns

59 txns

Cardano block time is 3.52X longer than Polkadot block time

21.13s

6s

Cardano finality is 4X longer than Polkadot finality

2m

30s

Cardano has 2.69X more total transactions than Polkadot

124M txns

46M txns

Cardano was launched 3 years before Polkadot

Sep 27, 2017

May 26, 2020

Cardano Nakamoto Coefficient is 91.52% lower than Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient

15

177

Cardano has 3.46X more validators than Polkadot

2,075

600

Cardano stake is 4.75X higher than Polkadot stake

$5.418B

$1.142B

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 58.55% fewer developers than Polkadot

3,775

9,108

Cardano has 56.3% fewer commits than Polkadot

308,085

705,054

Cardano has 60.03% fewer repos than Polkadot

227

568

Cardano has 64.97% fewer stars than Polkadot

12,484

35,647

Cardano has 1.01X more watchers than Polkadot

2,195

2,172

Cardano on-chain revenue is 74X higher than Polkadot on-chain revenue

$1.927K

$25.92

Cardano average transaction fee is 4.5X higher than Polkadot average transaction fee

$0.08166

$0.01813

Cardano market cap is 4.4X higher than Polkadot market cap

$9.404B

$2.137B

Cardano FDV is 4.37X higher than Polkadot FDV

$11.51B

$2.633B

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

81.73%

81.18%

Cardano price is 79.6% lower than Polkadot price

$0.2557

$1.254