Compare Polkadot vs Solana

Polkadot TPS is 100% lower than Solana TPS

0 tx/s

2,105 tx/s

Polkadot max TPS is 95.8% lower than Solana max TPS

462.7 tx/s

11,015 tx/s

Polkadot max theoretical TPS is 98.46% lower than Solana max theoretical TPS

1,000 tx/s

65,000 tx/s

Polkadot transaction volume is 100% lower than Solana transaction volume

0 txns

7.58M txns

Polkadot block time is 28X longer than Solana block time

5.99s

214ms

Polkadot finality is 75X longer than Solana finality

30s

400ms

Polkadot has 99.97% fewer total transactions than Solana

46.1M txns

135B txns

Polkadot was launched 2 months after Solana

May 26, 2020

Mar 16, 2020

Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient is 10X higher than Solana Nakamoto Coefficient

176

17

Polkadot has 9.5% fewer validators than Solana

600

663

Polkadot stake is 97.8% lower than Solana stake

$852M

$38.7B

Polkadot is Nominated Proof of Stake, while Solana is PoS

Nominated Proof of Stake

Proof of Stake (PoS)

Polkadot on-chain governance is better than Solana off-chain governance

On-chain

Off-chain

Polkadot has 16.7% fewer developers than Solana

9,126

10,956

Polkadot has 7.28X more commits than Solana

707,480

97,141

Polkadot has 3.63X more repos than Solana

577

159

Polkadot has 15.49% fewer stars than Solana

35,642

42,176

Polkadot has 3.49X more watchers than Solana

2,158

619

Polkadot on-chain revenue is >99.99% lower than Solana on-chain revenue

$0.108

$500K

Polkadot average transaction fee is 93.68% lower than Solana average transaction fee

$0.000191

$0.00302

Polkadot market cap is 97.03% lower than Solana market cap

$1.58B

$53.2B

Polkadot FDV is 96.62% lower than Solana FDV

$1.94B

$57.4B

Polkadot Market Cap to FDV ratio is 12.08% lower than Solana Market Cap to FDV ratio

81.47%

92.66%

Polkadot price is 98.98% lower than Solana price

$0.9233

$90.11