Compare Cardano vs Solana

Cardano TPS is 99.97% lower than Solana TPS

0.44 tx/s

1,549 tx/s

Cardano max TPS is 99.81% lower than Solana max TPS

11.62 tx/s

6,284 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 99.97% lower than Solana transaction volume

1.55K txns

5.57M txns

Cardano block time is 52X longer than Solana block time

21.66s

420ms

Cardano finality is 9.38X longer than Solana finality

2m

12.8s

Cardano and Solana are both layer 1 blockchains

Layer 1 blockchain

Layer 1 blockchain

Cardano has 99.89% fewer total transactions than Solana

122M txns

118B 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 3X more validators than Solana

2,087

696

Cardano stake is 88.99% lower than Solana stake

$3.657B

$33.22B

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 65.33% fewer developers than Solana

3,763

10,854

Cardano has 3.21X more commits than Solana

302,088

94,052

Cardano has 1.39X more repos than Solana

226

163

Cardano has 69.77% fewer stars than Solana

12,559

41,550

Cardano has 4.03X more watchers than Solana

2,254

560

Cardano chain revenue is 99.15% lower than Solana chain revenue

$3.944K

$468.4K

Cardano average transaction fee is 20X higher than Solana average transaction fee

$0.06913

$0.003512

Cardano market cap is 86.26% lower than Solana market cap

$6.254B

$45.53B

Cardano FDV is 84.34% lower than Solana FDV

$7.713B

$49.28B

Cardano Market Cap to FDV ratio is 12.24% lower than Solana Market Cap to FDV ratio

81.08%

92.39%

Cardano price is 99.78% lower than Solana price

$0.1714

$78.12