Compare Polkadot vs Arbitrum

Polkadot TPS is 99.99% lower than Arbitrum TPS

0.0008 tx/s

11.17 tx/s

Polkadot max TPS is 77.27% lower than Arbitrum max TPS

462.7 tx/s

2,036 tx/s

Polkadot max theoretical TPS is 83.59% lower than Arbitrum max theoretical TPS

1,000 tx/s

6,095 tx/s

Polkadot transaction volume is 99.99% lower than Arbitrum transaction volume

3 txns

40.2K txns

Polkadot block time is 21X longer than Arbitrum block time

6s

289ms

Polkadot finality is 96.38% shorter than Arbitrum finality

30s

13m 48s

Polkadot has 98.09% fewer total transactions than Arbitrum

46.1M txns

2.41B txns

Polkadot was launched 1 year before Arbitrum

May 26, 2020

Aug 31, 2021

Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient is 178X higher than Arbitrum Nakamoto Coefficient

178

1

Polkadot has 600X more validators than Arbitrum

600

1

Polkadot stake is $936M, while Arbitrum has no data

$936M

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Polkadot is Nominated Proof of Stake, while Arbitrum is Rollup (Optimistic)

Nominated Proof of Stake

Rollup (Optimistic)

Polkadot and Arbitrum governance are both on-chain

On-chain

On-chain

Polkadot has 3.67X more developers than Arbitrum

9,121

2,486

Polkadot has 3.22X more commits than Arbitrum

706,836

219,593

Polkadot has 4.33X more repos than Arbitrum

576

133

Polkadot has 3.28X more stars than Arbitrum

35,645

10,857

Polkadot has 1.49X more watchers than Arbitrum

2,171

1,457

Polkadot on-chain revenue is 100% lower than Arbitrum on-chain revenue

$0.0735

$11.2K

Polkadot average transaction fee is 1.54X higher than Arbitrum average transaction fee

$0.0184

$0.0119

Polkadot market cap is 1.51X higher than Arbitrum market cap

$1.74B

$1.15B

Polkadot FDV is 1.28X higher than Arbitrum FDV

$2.13B

$1.66B

Polkadot Market Cap to FDV ratio is 1.18X higher than Arbitrum Market Cap to FDV ratio

81.39%

68.92%

Polkadot price is 6.1X higher than Arbitrum price

$1.02

$0.1665