Compare Polkadot vs Cardano

Polkadot TPS is 95.41% lower than Cardano TPS

0.02 tx/s

0.38 tx/s

Polkadot max TPS is 40X higher than Cardano max TPS

462.7 tx/s

11.62 tx/s

Polkadot max theoretical TPS is 55X higher than Cardano max theoretical TPS

1,000 tx/s

18.02 tx/s

Polkadot transaction volume is 95.4% lower than Cardano transaction volume

62 txns

1.35K txns

Polkadot block time is 71.95% shorter than Cardano block time

6.04s

21.54s

Polkadot finality is 75% shorter than Cardano finality

30s

2m

Polkadot has 62.76% fewer total transactions than Cardano

46M txns

124M txns

Polkadot was launched 3 years after Cardano

May 26, 2020

Sep 27, 2017

Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient is 11X higher than Cardano Nakamoto Coefficient

172

15

Polkadot has 71.13% fewer validators than Cardano

600

2,079

Polkadot stake is 76.81% lower than Cardano stake

$1.019B

$4.397B

Polkadot is Nominated Proof of Stake, while Cardano is PoS

Nominated Proof of Stake

Proof of Stake (PoS)

Polkadot and Cardano governance are both on-chain

On-chain

On-chain

Polkadot has 2.42X more developers than Cardano

9,102

3,765

Polkadot has 2.3X more commits than Cardano

703,667

305,536

Polkadot has 2.53X more repos than Cardano

567

224

Polkadot has 2.86X more stars than Cardano

35,629

12,455

Polkadot has 0.91% fewer watchers than Cardano

2,177

2,197

Polkadot on-chain revenue is 98.15% lower than Cardano on-chain revenue

$22.5

$1.22K

Polkadot average transaction fee is 91.22% lower than Cardano average transaction fee

$0.005424

$0.06184

Polkadot market cap is 74.84% lower than Cardano market cap

$1.902B

$7.562B

Polkadot FDV is 74.66% lower than Cardano FDV

$2.346B

$9.262B

Polkadot Market Cap to FDV ratio is 0.71% lower than Cardano Market Cap to FDV ratio

81.06%

81.64%

Polkadot price is 5.43X higher than Cardano price

$1.117

$0.2058