Solana vs ICP Scalability

Real-time TPS (1H)

Solana TPS is 54.94% lower than ICP TPS

Solana logo
1,381 tx/s
ICP logo
3,065 tx/s

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Max TPS (100 blocks)

Solana max TPS is 75.47% lower than ICP max TPS

Solana logo
6,284 tx/s
ICP logo
25,621 tx/s

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Max Theoretical TPS

Solana max theoretical TPS is 69% lower than ICP max theoretical TPS

Solana logo
65,000 tx/s
ICP logo
209,708 tx/s

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Transaction Volume (1H)

Solana transaction volume is 54.95% lower than ICP transaction volume

Solana logo
4.97M txns
ICP logo
11M txns

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Block Time (1H)

Solana block time is 16.64% shorter than ICP block time

Solana logo
400ms
ICP logo
480ms

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Finality

Solana finality is 100% longer than ICP finality

Solana logo
12.8s
ICP logo
0s

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Type

Solana and ICP are both layer 1 blockchains

Solana logo
Layer 1 blockchain
ICP logo
Layer 1 blockchain

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Total Transactions (All time)

Solana has 61.46% fewer total transactions than ICP

Solana logo
110B txns
ICP logo
287B txns

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Launch Date

Solana was launched 1 year before ICP

Solana logo
Mar 16, 2020
ICP logo
May 10, 2021

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Solana vs ICP Decentralization

Nakamoto Coefficient

Solana Nakamoto Coefficient is 1.29X higher than ICP Nakamoto Coefficient

Solana logo
18
ICP logo
14

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Validators

Solana has 1.1X more validators than ICP

Solana logo
738
ICP logo
673

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Stake

Solana stake is 59X higher than ICP stake

Solana logo
$36.79B
ICP logo
$627.6M

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Consensus Mechanism

Solana is PoS, while ICP is Proof of Useful Work

Solana logo
Proof of Stake (PoS)
ICP logo
Proof of Useful Work

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Governance

Solana off-chain governance is worse than ICP on-chain governance

Solana logo
Off-chain
ICP logo
On-chain

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Solana vs ICP Developer Activity

Developers

Solana has 14X more developers than ICP

Solana logo
10,772
ICP logo
776

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Commits

Solana has 21.82% fewer commits than ICP

Solana logo
90,990
ICP logo
116,390

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Repos

Solana has 18.85% fewer repos than ICP

Solana logo
142
ICP logo
175

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Stars

Solana has 4.72X more stars than ICP

Solana logo
39,419
ICP logo
8,351

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Watchers

Solana has 70.22% fewer watchers than ICP

Solana logo
511
ICP logo
1,716

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Solana vs ICP Financials New

Chain Revenue

Solana chain revenue is 33X higher than ICP chain revenue

Solana logo
$344.8K
ICP logo
$10.39K

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Average Transaction Fee

Solana average transaction fee is 85X higher than ICP average transaction fee

Solana logo
$0.003344
ICP logo
$0.00003922

Data from Chainspect

Market Cap

Solana market cap is 34X higher than ICP market cap

Solana logo
$49.59B
ICP logo
$1.438B

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FDV

Solana FDV is 37X higher than ICP FDV

Solana logo
$53.79B
ICP logo
$1.438B

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Market Cap / FDV

Solana Market Cap to FDV ratio is 7.8% lower than ICP Market Cap to FDV ratio

Solana logo
92.20%
ICP logo
100.00%

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Price

Solana price is 33X higher than ICP price

Solana logo
$85.79
ICP logo
$2.601

Data from Chainspect

Solana vs ICP Real-time TPS Chart

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About Blockchains

About Solana

Solana stands out as a high-performance blockchain, celebrated for its scalability, speed, and minimal transaction expenses. Featuring a distinctive consensus mechanism dubbed Proof of History (PoH), Solana achieves remarkable scalability and efficiency. Tailored to accommodate dApps, it excels in processing a vast number of transactions swiftly, thereby slashing processing durations and fees. These attributes make it a compelling platform for developers within the cryptocurrency realm.

About ICP

The Internet Computer is a decentralized cloud blockchain that pursues the $1+ trillion cloud market — hosting apps, websites and enterprise systems, fully onchain, where they benefit from extraordinary security and resilience, can do multi-chain token processing, and can be administered in a decentralized way for safety.

A core purpose is “self-writing cloud”, where AI creates apps for mass market users, which are sophisticated and secure, in response to instructions they provide over chat.

The ICP token is burned powering onchain apps, and is a cryptocurrency used in network governance staking.

It’s easy to try — use AI to create onchain apps (e.g. caffeine.ai) or use an online IDE to write serverless code yourself (e.g. icp.ninja)!

Blockchains Socials

Solana Socials

ICP Socials