Compare Cardano vs Solana

Cardano TPS is 99.98% lower than Solana TPS

0.36 tx/s

1,992 tx/s

Cardano max TPS is 99.89% lower than Solana max TPS

11.62 tx/s

11,015 tx/s

Cardano max theoretical TPS is 99.97% lower than Solana max theoretical TPS

18.02 tx/s

65,000 tx/s

Cardano transaction volume is 99.98% lower than Solana transaction volume

1.27K txns

7.17M txns

Cardano block time is 75X longer than Solana block time

19.85s

267ms

Cardano finality is 9.38X longer than Solana finality

2m

12.8s

Cardano has 99.9% fewer total transactions than Solana

124M txns

127B txns

Cardano was launched 2 years before Solana

Sep 27, 2017

Mar 16, 2020

Cardano Nakamoto Coefficient is 16.66% lower than Solana Nakamoto Coefficient

15

18

Cardano has 3.06X more validators than Solana

2,077

678

Cardano stake is 89.96% lower than Solana stake

$4.905B

$48.86B

Cardano and Solana are both PoS

Proof of Stake (PoS)

Proof of Stake (PoS)

Cardano on-chain governance is better than Solana off-chain governance

On-chain

Off-chain

Cardano has 65.4% fewer developers than Solana

3,773

10,907

Cardano has 3.2X more commits than Solana

307,240

95,902

Cardano has 1.35X more repos than Solana

226

167

Cardano has 70.31% fewer stars than Solana

12,468

42,008

Cardano has 3.7X more watchers than Solana

2,199

594

Cardano on-chain revenue is 99.81% lower than Solana on-chain revenue

$1.32K

$698.9K

Cardano average transaction fee is 14X higher than Solana average transaction fee

$0.06161

$0.004504

Cardano market cap is 88.24% lower than Solana market cap

$7.609B

$64.72B

Cardano FDV is 86.67% lower than Solana FDV

$9.317B

$69.9B

Cardano Market Cap to FDV ratio is 11.79% lower than Solana Market Cap to FDV ratio

81.67%

92.59%

Cardano price is 99.81% lower than Solana price

$0.207

$110.2