Compare Cardano vs Polkadot

Cardano TPS is 1.01 tx/s, while Polkadot TPS is 0 tx/s

1.01 tx/s

0 tx/s

Cardano max TPS is 97.46% lower than Polkadot max TPS

11.77 tx/s

462.7 tx/s

Cardano max theoretical TPS is 98.2% lower than Polkadot max theoretical TPS

18.02 tx/s

1,000 tx/s

Cardano transaction volume is 3.6K txns, while Polkadot transaction volume is 0 txns

3.6K txns

0 txns

Cardano block time is 3.64X longer than Polkadot block time

21.85s

6.01s

Cardano finality is 4X longer than Polkadot finality

2m

30s

Cardano has 2.75X more total transactions than Polkadot

127M txns

46.1M txns

Cardano was launched 3 years before Polkadot

Sep 27, 2017

May 26, 2020

Cardano Nakamoto Coefficient is 91.71% lower than Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient

15

181

Cardano has 3.45X more validators than Polkadot

2,069

600

Cardano stake is 4.81X higher than Polkadot stake

$3.98B

$829M

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 57.41% fewer developers than Polkadot

3,888

9,128

Cardano has 55.05% fewer commits than Polkadot

318,024

707,557

Cardano has 57.89% fewer repos than Polkadot

243

577

Cardano has 64.66% fewer stars than Polkadot

12,598

35,643

Cardano has 1.09X more watchers than Polkadot

2,357

2,158

Cardano on-chain revenue is 37,702X higher than Polkadot on-chain revenue

$2.46K

$0.0652

Cardano average transaction fee is 300X higher than Polkadot average transaction fee

$0.0412

$0.000138

Cardano market cap is 4.38X higher than Polkadot market cap

$6.79B

$1.55B

Cardano FDV is 4.36X higher than Polkadot FDV

$8.3B

$1.9B

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

81.84%

81.47%

Cardano price is 79.63% lower than Polkadot price

$0.1844

$0.9053