Compare Cardano vs Polkadot

Cardano TPS is 100% higher than Polkadot TPS

0.18 tx/s

0 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 100% higher than Polkadot transaction volume

619 txns

0 txns

Cardano block time is 3.07X longer than Polkadot block time

18.39s

5.99s

Cardano finality is 4X longer than Polkadot finality

2m

30s

Cardano has 2.67X more total transactions than Polkadot

123M txns

46M txns

Cardano was launched 3 years before Polkadot

Sep 27, 2017

May 26, 2020

Cardano Nakamoto Coefficient is 90.69% lower than Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient

16

172

Cardano has 3.47X more validators than Polkadot

2,083

600

Cardano stake is 5.66X higher than Polkadot stake

$3.74B

$661.2M

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 58.62% fewer developers than Polkadot

3,758

9,082

Cardano has 56.82% fewer commits than Polkadot

302,999

701,813

Cardano has 59.92% fewer repos than Polkadot

222

554

Cardano has 65.09% fewer stars than Polkadot

12,422

35,588

Cardano has 1.02X more watchers than Polkadot

2,214

2,178

Cardano on-chain revenue is 67,555X higher than Polkadot on-chain revenue

$818.6

$0.01212

Cardano average transaction fee is 10,838X higher than Polkadot average transaction fee

$0.0491

$0.00000453

Cardano market cap is 4.96X higher than Polkadot market cap

$6.363B

$1.282B

Cardano FDV is 4.94X higher than Polkadot FDV

$7.832B

$1.585B

Cardano Market Cap to FDV ratio is 1X higher than Polkadot Market Cap to FDV ratio

81.24%

80.89%

Cardano price is 76.94% lower than Polkadot price

$0.174

$0.7547