Compare Cardano vs Solana

Cardano TPS is 99.98% lower than Solana TPS

0.16 tx/s

981.8 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

574 txns

3.53M txns

Cardano block time is 55X longer than Solana block time

17.29s

314ms

Cardano finality is 9.38X longer than Solana finality

2m

12.8s

Cardano has 99.9% fewer total transactions than Solana

123M txns

125B 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 3.07X more validators than Solana

2,079

677

Cardano stake is 89.87% lower than Solana stake

$4.506B

$44.51B

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 65.47% fewer developers than Solana

3,763

10,899

Cardano has 3.19X more commits than Solana

304,837

95,487

Cardano has 1.35X more repos than Solana

224

166

Cardano has 70.36% fewer stars than Solana

12,450

42,014

Cardano has 3.73X more watchers than Solana

2,200

590

Cardano on-chain revenue is 99.53% lower than Solana on-chain revenue

$2.037K

$437.8K

Cardano average transaction fee is 21X higher than Solana average transaction fee

$0.07311

$0.003485

Cardano market cap is 87.03% lower than Solana market cap

$7.75B

$59.79B

Cardano FDV is 85.32% lower than Solana FDV

$9.494B

$64.7B

Cardano Market Cap to FDV ratio is 11.67% lower than Solana Market Cap to FDV ratio

81.62%

92.41%

Cardano price is 99.79% lower than Solana price

$0.211

$102.1