Compare Waterfall vs Cardano

Waterfall TPS is 9.16% lower than Cardano TPS

0.26 tx/s

0.28 tx/s

Waterfall max TPS is 2,791X higher than Cardano max TPS

32,434 tx/s

11.62 tx/s

Waterfall max theoretical TPS is 2,312X higher than Cardano max theoretical TPS

41,666 tx/s

18.02 tx/s

Waterfall transaction volume is 9.17% lower than Cardano transaction volume

931 txns

1.03K txns

Waterfall block time is 76.11% shorter than Cardano block time

5.07s

21.22s

Waterfall finality is 80% shorter than Cardano finality

24s

2m

Waterfall and Cardano are both layer 1 blockchains

Layer 1 blockchain

Layer 1 blockchain

Waterfall was launched 7 years after Cardano

Jul 17, 2024

Sep 27, 2017

Waterfall has no data, while Cardano Nakamoto Coefficient is 25

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25

Waterfall has 39X more validators than Cardano

84,710

2,159

Waterfall stake is 99.98% lower than Cardano stake

$2.305M

$18.17B

Waterfall and Cardano are both PoS

Proof of Stake (PoS)

Proof of Stake (PoS)

Waterfall council governance is worse than Cardano on-chain governance

Council

On-chain

Waterfall has 99.62% fewer developers than Cardano

13

3,502

Waterfall has 95.5% fewer repos than Cardano

8

178

Waterfall has 99.89% fewer commits than Cardano

242

224,414

Waterfall has 99.97% fewer stars than Cardano

3

11,526

Waterfall has 99.9% fewer watchers than Cardano

2

2,073