Compare Polkadot vs Optimism

Polkadot TPS is 99.99% lower than Optimism TPS

0.0008 tx/s

10.62 tx/s

Polkadot max TPS is 1.56X higher than Optimism max TPS

462.7 tx/s

295.7 tx/s

Polkadot max theoretical TPS is 1.4X higher than Optimism max theoretical TPS

1,000 tx/s

714.3 tx/s

Polkadot transaction volume is 99.99% lower than Optimism transaction volume

3 txns

38.2K txns

Polkadot block time is 3X longer than Optimism block time

6s

2s

Polkadot finality is 97.02% shorter than Optimism finality

30s

16m 48s

Polkadot has 96.77% fewer total transactions than Optimism

46.1M txns

1.43B txns

Polkadot was launched 2 years before Optimism

May 26, 2020

Dec 16, 2021

Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient is 178X higher than Optimism Nakamoto Coefficient

178

1

Polkadot has 600X more validators than Optimism

600

1

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

$936M

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

Nominated Proof of Stake

Rollup (Optimistic)

Polkadot and Optimism governance are both on-chain

On-chain

On-chain

Polkadot has 2.63X more developers than Optimism

9,121

3,463

Polkadot has 3.87X more commits than Optimism

706,836

182,876

Polkadot has 6.13X more repos than Optimism

576

94

Polkadot has 2.71X more stars than Optimism

35,645

13,171

Polkadot has 2.84X more watchers than Optimism

2,171

764

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

$0.0735

$2.11K

Polkadot average transaction fee is 8.45X higher than Optimism average transaction fee

$0.0184

$0.00217

Polkadot market cap is 6.88X higher than Optimism market cap

$1.74B

$252M

Polkadot FDV is 4.52X higher than Optimism FDV

$2.13B

$471M

Polkadot Market Cap to FDV ratio is 1.52X higher than Optimism Market Cap to FDV ratio

81.39%

53.54%

Polkadot price is 9.25X higher than Optimism price

$1.02

$0.1098