Compare Cardano vs Solana

Cardano TPS is 99.98% lower than Solana TPS

0.24 tx/s

2,193 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

844 txns

7.89M txns

Cardano block time is 57X longer than Solana block time

17.96s

318ms

Cardano finality is 9.38X longer than Solana finality

2m

12.8s

Cardano has 99.9% fewer total transactions than Solana

123M txns

124B 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 3.02X more validators than Solana

2,080

688

Cardano stake is 90.6% lower than Solana stake

$4.32B

$45.96B

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 65.46% fewer developers than Solana

3,760

10,889

Cardano has 3.19X more commits than Solana

304,085

95,232

Cardano has 1.35X more repos than Solana

224

166

Cardano has 70.36% fewer stars than Solana

12,438

41,975

Cardano has 3.78X more watchers than Solana

2,212

585

Cardano on-chain revenue is 99.85% lower than Solana on-chain revenue

$1.065K

$727.4K

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

$0.05247

$0.004911

Cardano market cap is 88.01% lower than Solana market cap

$7.377B

$61.56B

Cardano FDV is 86.42% lower than Solana FDV

$9.041B

$66.61B

Cardano Market Cap to FDV ratio is 11.69% lower than Solana Market Cap to FDV ratio

81.60%

92.41%

Cardano price is 99.8% lower than Solana price

$0.2009

$105.2