Compare Cardano vs Polkadot

Cardano TPS is 10X higher than Polkadot TPS

0.17 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 10X higher than Polkadot transaction volume

604 txns

60 txns

Cardano block time is 3.48X longer than Polkadot block time

20.91s

6s

Cardano finality is 4X longer than Polkadot finality

2m

30s

Cardano has 2.68X 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 91.27% lower than Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient

15

172

Cardano has 3.47X more validators than Polkadot

2,079

600

Cardano stake is 4.85X higher than Polkadot stake

$4.733B

$975.1M

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 58.64% fewer developers than Polkadot

3,764

9,102

Cardano has 56.62% fewer commits than Polkadot

305,106

703,401

Cardano has 60.28% fewer repos than Polkadot

224

564

Cardano has 65.03% fewer stars than Polkadot

12,454

35,623

Cardano has 1.01X more watchers than Polkadot

2,199

2,177

Cardano on-chain revenue is 66X higher than Polkadot on-chain revenue

$1.491K

$22.56

Cardano average transaction fee is 4.37X higher than Polkadot average transaction fee

$0.06823

$0.0156

Cardano market cap is 4.51X higher than Polkadot market cap

$8.17B

$1.811B

Cardano FDV is 4.48X higher than Polkadot FDV

$10.01B

$2.235B

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

81.64%

81.04%

Cardano price is 79.1% lower than Polkadot price

$0.2224

$1.064