Compare Cardano vs Solana

Cardano TPS is 99.56% lower than Solana TPS

5.22 tx/s

1,213 tx/s

Cardano max TPS is 99.89% lower than Solana max TPS

11.77 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 99.58% lower than Solana transaction volume

18.3K txns

4.37M txns

Cardano block time is 87X longer than Solana block time

18.9s

218ms

Cardano finality is 9.38X longer than Solana finality

2m

12.8s

Cardano has 99.9% fewer total transactions than Solana

126M txns

131B 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 3.08X more validators than Solana

2,073

674

Cardano stake is 89.11% lower than Solana stake

$5.209B

$47.86B

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 65.43% fewer developers than Solana

3,784

10,946

Cardano has 3.22X more commits than Solana

310,284

96,451

Cardano has 1.39X more repos than Solana

227

163

Cardano has 70.38% fewer stars than Solana

12,488

42,170

Cardano has 3.63X more watchers than Solana

2,196

605

Cardano on-chain revenue is 98.51% lower than Solana on-chain revenue

$12.19K

$823.4K

Cardano average transaction fee is 11X higher than Solana average transaction fee

$0.04883

$0.004644

Cardano market cap is 85.76% lower than Solana market cap

$9.175B

$64.44B

Cardano FDV is 83.86% lower than Solana FDV

$11.22B

$69.56B

Cardano Market Cap to FDV ratio is 11.73% lower than Solana Market Cap to FDV ratio

81.77%

92.64%

Cardano price is 99.77% lower than Solana price

$0.2493

$109.5