Compare Base vs Optimism

Base TPS is 5.75X higher than Optimism TPS

77.78 tx/s

13.53 tx/s

Base max TPS is 8.5X higher than Optimism max TPS

2,515 tx/s

295.7 tx/s

Base max theoretical TPS is 5X higher than Optimism max theoretical TPS

3,571 tx/s

714.3 tx/s

Base transaction volume is 5.75X higher than Optimism transaction volume

280K txns

48.7K txns

Base block time is the same as Optimism block time

2s

2s

Base finality is 21.32% shorter than Optimism finality

13m 13s

16m 48s

Base has 5.49X more total transactions than Optimism

7.43B txns

1.35B txns

Base was launched 2 years after Optimism

Aug 9, 2023

Dec 16, 2021

Base Nakamoto Coefficient is the same as Optimism Nakamoto Coefficient

1

1

Base and Optimism have the same amount of validators

1

1

Base and Optimism have no data

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Base and Optimism are both Rollup (Optimistic)

Rollup (Optimistic)

Rollup (Optimistic)

Base off-chain governance is worse than Optimism on-chain governance

Off-chain

On-chain

Base has 56.87% fewer developers than Optimism

1,490

3,455

Base has 87.19% fewer commits than Optimism

23,376

182,584

Base has 17.7% fewer repos than Optimism

79

96

Base has 5.98X more stars than Optimism

79,070

13,217

Base has 1.03X more watchers than Optimism

833

811

Base on-chain revenue is 63X higher than Optimism on-chain revenue

$180.5K

$2.856K

Base average transaction fee is 8.37X higher than Optimism average transaction fee

$0.01701

$0.002031

Base has no data, while Optimism market cap is $221M

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$221M

Base has no data, while Optimism FDV is $412.7M

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$412.7M

Base has no data, while Optimism Market Cap to FDV ratio is 53.54%

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53.54%

Base has no data, while Optimism price is $0.09608

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$0.09608