Compare Polkadot vs Cardano

Polkadot TPS is 100% lower than Cardano TPS

0 tx/s

0.23 tx/s

Polkadot max TPS is 39X higher than Cardano max TPS

462.7 tx/s

11.77 tx/s

Polkadot max theoretical TPS is 55X higher than Cardano max theoretical TPS

1,000 tx/s

18.02 tx/s

Polkadot transaction volume is 100% lower than Cardano transaction volume

0 txns

793 txns

Polkadot block time is 70.01% shorter than Cardano block time

6s

20.01s

Polkadot finality is 75% shorter than Cardano finality

30s

2m

Polkadot has 63.62% fewer total transactions than Cardano

46.1M txns

127M txns

Polkadot was launched 3 years after Cardano

May 26, 2020

Sep 27, 2017

Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient is 12X higher than Cardano Nakamoto Coefficient

177

15

Polkadot has 71% fewer validators than Cardano

600

2,069

Polkadot stake is 78.8% lower than Cardano stake

$890M

$4.2B

Polkadot is Nominated Proof of Stake, while Cardano is PoS

Nominated Proof of Stake

Proof of Stake (PoS)

Polkadot and Cardano governance are both on-chain

On-chain

On-chain

Polkadot has 2.35X more developers than Cardano

9,123

3,885

Polkadot has 2.23X more commits than Cardano

707,116

316,546

Polkadot has 2.38X more repos than Cardano

576

242

Polkadot has 2.83X more stars than Cardano

35,640

12,593

Polkadot has 8.34% fewer watchers than Cardano

2,165

2,362

Polkadot on-chain revenue is >99.99% lower than Cardano on-chain revenue

$0.105

$1.92K

Polkadot average transaction fee is 99.96% lower than Cardano average transaction fee

$0.0₄252

$0.0629

Polkadot market cap is 77.03% lower than Cardano market cap

$1.64B

$7.15B

Polkadot FDV is 76.92% lower than Cardano FDV

$2.02B

$8.74B

Polkadot Market Cap to FDV ratio is 0.49% lower than Cardano Market Cap to FDV ratio

81.42%

81.82%

Polkadot price is 4.95X higher than Cardano price

$0.9608

$0.1943