Compare Polygon vs Bitcoin

Polygon TPS is 7.51X higher than Bitcoin TPS

47.82 tx/s

6.37 tx/s

Polygon max TPS is 40X higher than Bitcoin max TPS

537.5 tx/s

13.48 tx/s

Polygon max theoretical TPS is 544X higher than Bitcoin max theoretical TPS

3,810 tx/s

7 tx/s

Polygon transaction volume is 8.6X higher than Bitcoin transaction volume

172K txns

20K txns

Polygon block time is 99.71% shorter than Bitcoin block time

1.5s

8m 44s

Polygon finality is 99.86% shorter than Bitcoin finality

5s

1h

Polygon has 5.66X more total transactions than Bitcoin

8.28B txns

1.46B txns

Polygon was launched 11 years after Bitcoin

May 30, 2020

Jan 3, 2009

Polygon Nakamoto Coefficient is 1.33X higher than Bitcoin Nakamoto Coefficient

4

3

Polygon has 31.58% fewer validators than Bitcoin has miners

104

152

Polygon stake is $334M, while Bitcoin hashrate is 1.24K EH/s

$334M

1.24K EH/s

Polygon is PoS, while Bitcoin is PoW

Proof of Stake (PoS)

Proof of Work (PoW)

Polygon and Bitcoin governance are both off-chain

Off-chain

Off-chain

Polygon has 10.82% fewer developers than Bitcoin

1,830

2,052

Polygon has 46.67% fewer commits than Bitcoin

68,230

127,946

Polygon has 7.7X more repos than Bitcoin

177

23

Polygon has 91.19% fewer stars than Bitcoin

9,568

108,632

Polygon has 77.56% fewer watchers than Bitcoin

1,247

5,556

Polygon on-chain revenue is 54.16% lower than Bitcoin on-chain revenue

$74.5K

$163K

Polygon average transaction fee is 93.31% lower than Bitcoin average transaction fee

$0.0152

$0.228

Polygon market cap is 99.94% lower than Bitcoin market cap

$953M

$1.63T

Polygon FDV is 99.94% lower than Bitcoin FDV

$953M

$1.7T

Polygon Market Cap to FDV ratio is 1.04X higher than Bitcoin Market Cap to FDV ratio

100.00%

95.73%

Polygon price is 100% lower than Bitcoin price

$0.08955

$80,872.60