Compare Polkadot vs Solana

Polkadot TPS is 100% lower than Solana TPS

0 tx/s

1,402 tx/s

Polkadot max TPS is 95.8% lower than Solana max TPS

462.7 tx/s

11,015 tx/s

Polkadot max theoretical TPS is 98.46% lower than Solana max theoretical TPS

1,000 tx/s

65,000 tx/s

Polkadot transaction volume is 100% lower than Solana transaction volume

0 txns

5.05M txns

Polkadot block time is 28X longer than Solana block time

6s

214ms

Polkadot finality is 75X longer than Solana finality

30s

400ms

Polkadot has 99.97% fewer total transactions than Solana

46.1M txns

134B txns

Polkadot was launched 2 months after Solana

May 26, 2020

Mar 16, 2020

Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient is 10X higher than Solana Nakamoto Coefficient

177

17

Polkadot has 9.77% fewer validators than Solana

600

665

Polkadot stake is 97.87% lower than Solana stake

$890M

$41.9B

Polkadot is Nominated Proof of Stake, while Solana is PoS

Nominated Proof of Stake

Proof of Stake (PoS)

Polkadot on-chain governance is better than Solana off-chain governance

On-chain

Off-chain

Polkadot has 16.74% fewer developers than Solana

9,123

10,957

Polkadot has 7.29X more commits than Solana

707,116

97,027

Polkadot has 3.56X more repos than Solana

576

162

Polkadot has 15.84% fewer stars than Solana

35,640

42,347

Polkadot has 3.46X more watchers than Solana

2,165

626

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

$0.105

$495K

Polkadot average transaction fee is 99.23% lower than Solana average transaction fee

$0.0₄252

$0.00327

Polkadot market cap is 97.12% lower than Solana market cap

$1.64B

$57.1B

Polkadot FDV is 96.73% lower than Solana FDV

$2.02B

$61.6B

Polkadot Market Cap to FDV ratio is 12.14% lower than Solana Market Cap to FDV ratio

81.42%

92.67%

Polkadot price is 99.01% lower than Solana price

$0.9608

$96.77