Compare Polkadot vs Cardano

Polkadot TPS is 99.62% lower than Cardano TPS

0.0008 tx/s

0.21 tx/s

Polkadot max TPS is 39X higher than Cardano max TPS

462.7 tx/s

11.77 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 99.6% lower than Cardano transaction volume

3 txns

744 txns

Polkadot block time is 75.58% shorter than Cardano block time

6s

24.57s

Polkadot finality is 75% shorter than Cardano finality

30s

2m

Polkadot has 63.59% fewer total transactions than Cardano

46.1M txns

127M txns

Polkadot was launched 3 years after Cardano

May 26, 2020

Sep 27, 2017

Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient is 12X higher than Cardano Nakamoto Coefficient

178

15

Polkadot has 71.01% fewer validators than Cardano

600

2,070

Polkadot stake is 78.43% lower than Cardano stake

$936M

$4.34B

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 2.36X more developers than Cardano

9,121

3,867

Polkadot has 2.26X more commits than Cardano

706,836

313,228

Polkadot has 2.54X more repos than Cardano

576

227

Polkadot has 2.84X more stars than Cardano

35,645

12,540

Polkadot has 1.54% fewer watchers than Cardano

2,171

2,205

Polkadot on-chain revenue is 99.99% lower than Cardano on-chain revenue

$0.0735

$1.31K

Polkadot average transaction fee is 71.08% lower than Cardano average transaction fee

$0.0184

$0.0635

Polkadot market cap is 76.59% lower than Cardano market cap

$1.74B

$7.41B

Polkadot FDV is 76.47% lower than Cardano FDV

$2.13B

$9.06B

Polkadot Market Cap to FDV ratio is 0.52% lower than Cardano Market Cap to FDV ratio

81.39%

81.81%

Polkadot price is 5.04X higher than Cardano price

$1.02

$0.2014