Compare ICP vs Polkadot

ICP TPS is 5,544 tx/s, while Polkadot TPS is 0 tx/s

5,544 tx/s

0 tx/s

ICP max TPS is 55X higher than Polkadot max TPS

25,621 tx/s

462.7 tx/s

ICP max theoretical TPS is 210X higher than Polkadot max theoretical TPS

209,708 tx/s

1,000 tx/s

ICP transaction volume is 20M txns, while Polkadot transaction volume is 0 txns

20M txns

0 txns

ICP block time is 92% shorter than Polkadot block time

480ms

6s

ICP finality is 100% shorter than Polkadot finality

Instant

30s

ICP has 6,795X more total transactions than Polkadot

313B txns

46.1M txns

ICP was launched 1 year after Polkadot

May 10, 2021

May 26, 2020

ICP Nakamoto Coefficient is 92.05% lower than Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient

14

176

ICP has 1.03X more validators than Polkadot

618

600

ICP stake is 30.68% lower than Polkadot stake

$591M

$852M

ICP is Proof of Useful Work, while Polkadot is Nominated Proof of Stake

Proof of Useful Work

Nominated Proof of Stake

ICP and Polkadot governance are both on-chain

On-chain

On-chain

ICP has 91.21% fewer developers than Polkadot

802

9,126

ICP has 82.64% fewer commits than Polkadot

122,788

707,384

ICP has 68.28% fewer repos than Polkadot

183

577

ICP has 76.04% fewer stars than Polkadot

8,540

35,640

ICP has 22.05% fewer watchers than Polkadot

1,683

2,159

ICP on-chain revenue is 89,425X higher than Polkadot on-chain revenue

$9.63K

$0.108

ICP average transaction fee is 89.45% lower than Polkadot average transaction fee

$0.0₄201

$0.000191

ICP market cap is 14.08% lower than Polkadot market cap

$1.36B

$1.58B

ICP FDV is 30% lower than Polkadot FDV

$1.36B

$1.94B

ICP Market Cap to FDV ratio is 1.23X higher than Polkadot Market Cap to FDV ratio

100.00%

81.47%

ICP price is 2.63X higher than Polkadot price

$2.43

$0.9233