Compare Base vs Polkadot

Base TPS is 100% higher than Polkadot TPS

96.09 tx/s

0 tx/s

Base max TPS is 5.44X higher than Polkadot max TPS

2,515 tx/s

462.7 tx/s

Base max theoretical TPS is 3.57X higher than Polkadot max theoretical TPS

3,571 tx/s

1,000 tx/s

Base transaction volume is 100% higher than Polkadot transaction volume

346K txns

0 txns

Base block time is 66.63% shorter than Polkadot block time

2s

5.99s

Base finality is 26X longer than Polkadot finality

13m 13s

30s

Base has 170X more total transactions than Polkadot

7.82B txns

46.1M txns

Base was launched 3 years after Polkadot

Aug 9, 2023

May 26, 2020

Base Nakamoto Coefficient is 99.45% lower than Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient

1

182

Base has 99.83% fewer validators than Polkadot

1

600

Base has no data, while Polkadot stake is $912M

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$912M

Base is Rollup (Optimistic), while Polkadot is Nominated Proof of Stake

Rollup (Optimistic)

Nominated Proof of Stake

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

Off-chain

On-chain

Base has 83.9% fewer developers than Polkadot

1,469

9,122

Base has 96.65% fewer commits than Polkadot

23,655

706,894

Base has 86.46% fewer repos than Polkadot

78

576

Base has 2.21X more stars than Polkadot

78,747

35,646

Base has 62.64% fewer watchers than Polkadot

811

2,171

Base on-chain revenue is 724,951X higher than Polkadot on-chain revenue

$72K

$0.0994

Base average transaction fee is 85X higher than Polkadot average transaction fee

$0.00785

$0.0000921

Base has no data, while Polkadot market cap is $1.7B

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$1.7B

Base has no data, while Polkadot FDV is $2.09B

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$2.09B

Base has no data, while Polkadot Market Cap to FDV ratio is 81.39%

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81.39%

Base has no data, while Polkadot price is $0.9967

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$0.9967