Compare Cardano vs Polkadot

Cardano TPS is 100% higher than Polkadot TPS

0.28 tx/s

0 tx/s

Cardano max TPS is 97.46% lower than Polkadot max TPS

11.77 tx/s

462.7 tx/s

Cardano max theoretical TPS is 98.2% lower than Polkadot max theoretical TPS

18.02 tx/s

1,000 tx/s

Cardano transaction volume is 100% higher than Polkadot transaction volume

993 txns

0 txns

Cardano block time is 3.46X longer than Polkadot block time

20.75s

6s

Cardano finality is 4X longer than Polkadot finality

2m

30s

Cardano has 2.75X more total transactions than Polkadot

127M txns

46.1M txns

Cardano was launched 3 years before Polkadot

Sep 27, 2017

May 26, 2020

Cardano Nakamoto Coefficient is 91.57% lower than Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient

15

178

Cardano has 3.45X more validators than Polkadot

2,070

600

Cardano stake is 4.64X higher than Polkadot stake

$4.34B

$936M

Cardano is PoS, while Polkadot is Nominated Proof of Stake

Proof of Stake (PoS)

Nominated Proof of Stake

Cardano and Polkadot governance are both on-chain

On-chain

On-chain

Cardano has 57.6% fewer developers than Polkadot

3,867

9,121

Cardano has 55.69% fewer commits than Polkadot

313,228

706,836

Cardano has 60.59% fewer repos than Polkadot

227

576

Cardano has 64.82% fewer stars than Polkadot

12,540

35,645

Cardano has 1.02X more watchers than Polkadot

2,205

2,171

Cardano on-chain revenue is 17,864X higher than Polkadot on-chain revenue

$1.31K

$0.0735

Cardano average transaction fee is 3.46X higher than Polkadot average transaction fee

$0.0635

$0.0184

Cardano market cap is 4.27X higher than Polkadot market cap

$7.41B

$1.74B

Cardano FDV is 4.25X higher than Polkadot FDV

$9.06B

$2.13B

Cardano Market Cap to FDV ratio is 1.01X higher than Polkadot Market Cap to FDV ratio

81.81%

81.39%

Cardano price is 80.17% lower than Polkadot price

$0.2014

$1.02