Compare NEAR vs Cardano

NEAR TPS is 217X higher than Cardano TPS

52.7 tx/s

0.24 tx/s

NEAR max TPS is 356X higher than Cardano max TPS

4,135 tx/s

11.62 tx/s

NEAR max theoretical TPS is 888X higher than Cardano max theoretical TPS

16,000 tx/s

18.02 tx/s

NEAR transaction volume is 217X higher than Cardano transaction volume

190K txns

873 txns

NEAR block time is 97.17% shorter than Cardano block time

0.61s

21.52s

NEAR finality is 99.5% shorter than Cardano finality

0.6s

2m

NEAR and Cardano are both layer 1 blockchains

Layer 1 blockchain

Layer 1 blockchain

NEAR was launched 3 years after Cardano

Apr 22, 2020

Sep 27, 2017

NEAR Nakamoto Coefficient is 64% lower than Cardano Nakamoto Coefficient

9

25

NEAR has 84.85% fewer validators than Cardano

327

2,159

NEAR stake is 90.77% lower than Cardano stake

$1.732B

$18.77B

NEAR and Cardano are both PoS

Proof of Stake (PoS)

Proof of Stake (PoS)

NEAR council governance is worse than Cardano on-chain governance

Council

On-chain

NEAR has 66.95% fewer developers than Cardano

1,157

3,501

NEAR has 1.19X more repos than Cardano

211

178

NEAR has 67.24% fewer commits than Cardano

73,503

224,388

NEAR has 16.58% fewer stars than Cardano

9,614

11,525

NEAR has 34.4% fewer watchers than Cardano

1,361

2,075