Compare Waterfall vs Optimism

Waterfall TPS is 98.41% lower than Optimism TPS

0.42 tx/s

26.79 tx/s

Waterfall max TPS is 162X higher than Optimism max TPS

32,434 tx/s

200.2 tx/s

Waterfall max theoretical TPS is 58X higher than Optimism max theoretical TPS

41,666 tx/s

714.3 tx/s

Waterfall transaction volume is 98.41% lower than Optimism transaction volume

1.53K txns

96.4K txns

Waterfall block time is 1.74X longer than Optimism block time

3.47s

2s

Waterfall finality is 97.61% shorter than Optimism finality

24s

16m 48s

Waterfall is a layer 1 blockchain, while Optimism is a layer 2 blockchain

Layer 1 blockchain

Layer 2 blockchain

Waterfall was launched 3 years after Optimism

Jul 17, 2024

Dec 16, 2021

Waterfall has no data, while Optimism Nakamoto Coefficient is 1

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1

Waterfall has 108,871X more validators than Optimism

108,900

1

Waterfall stake is $2.596M, while Optimism has no data

$2.596M

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Waterfall is PoS, while Optimism is Rollup (Optimistic)

Proof of Stake (PoS)

Rollup (Optimistic)

Waterfall council governance is worse than Optimism on-chain governance

Council

On-chain

Waterfall has 99.56% fewer developers than Optimism

13

3,008

Waterfall has 91.39% fewer repos than Optimism

8

93

Waterfall has 99.85% fewer commits than Optimism

242

171,067

Waterfall has 99.97% fewer stars than Optimism

3

12,727

Waterfall has 99.8% fewer watchers than Optimism

2

1,043