Compare Polkadot vs Cardano

Polkadot TPS is 92.21% lower than Cardano TPS

0.02 tx/s

0.21 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 92.18% lower than Cardano transaction volume

58 txns

742 txns

Polkadot block time is 73.63% shorter than Cardano block time

5.99s

22.72s

Polkadot finality is 75% shorter than Cardano finality

30s

2m

Polkadot has 62.91% 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 12X higher than Cardano Nakamoto Coefficient

181

15

Polkadot has 71.07% fewer validators than Cardano

600

2,074

Polkadot stake is 79.26% lower than Cardano stake

$1.079B

$5.204B

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 2.41X more developers than Cardano

9,111

3,782

Polkadot has 2.28X more commits than Cardano

705,513

309,297

Polkadot has 2.51X more repos than Cardano

569

227

Polkadot has 2.85X more stars than Cardano

35,648

12,489

Polkadot has 1.09% fewer watchers than Cardano

2,172

2,196

Polkadot on-chain revenue is 99.11% lower than Cardano on-chain revenue

$23.02

$2.595K

Polkadot average transaction fee is 76.95% lower than Cardano average transaction fee

$0.01713

$0.07433

Polkadot market cap is 77.55% lower than Cardano market cap

$2.013B

$8.968B

Polkadot FDV is 77.4% lower than Cardano FDV

$2.478B

$10.97B

Polkadot Market Cap to FDV ratio is 0.63% lower than Cardano Market Cap to FDV ratio

81.22%

81.75%

Polkadot price is 4.84X higher than Cardano price

$1.18

$0.2438