Compare NEAR vs Cardano

NEAR TPS is 158X higher than Cardano TPS

53.52 tx/s

0.34 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 158X higher than Cardano transaction volume

193K txns

1.22K txns

NEAR block time is 96.66% shorter than Cardano block time

0.61s

18.42s

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 77.27% lower than Cardano Nakamoto Coefficient

5

22

NEAR has 95.08% fewer validators than Cardano

105

2,136

NEAR stake is 95.49% lower than Cardano stake

$647.2M

$14.37B

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 67.04% fewer developers than Cardano

1,159

3,517

NEAR has 1.17X more repos than Cardano

211

180

NEAR has 67.42% fewer commits than Cardano

73,695

226,198

NEAR has 16.75% fewer stars than Cardano

9,631

11,570

NEAR has 34.5% fewer watchers than Cardano

1,357

2,072