Fastest Blockchains This Week on Chainspect
🥇 @dfinity takes the top spot with 2,673 tx/s
🥈 @solana secures second with 1,132 tx/s
🥉 @BNBCHAIN takes third with 169 tx/s
Who's coming for the podium next?
📊 https://t.co/cz8cMmV3Ki
🚨 $ICP vs Cardano: The Numbers Are Not Even Close
I compared ICP vs Cardano on Chainspect.
Both are Layer 1 blockchains.
But on raw infrastructure performance, $ICP is operating in a completely different category.
Scalability
$ICP real-time TPS: 3,565 tx/s
Cardano real-time TPS: 0.22 tx/s
That makes $ICP 16,088× higher.
$ICP max TPS: 25,621 tx/s
Cardano max TPS: 11.62 tx/s
That makes $ICP 2,205× higher.
$ICP max theoretical TPS: 209,708 tx/s
Cardano max theoretical TPS: 18.02 tx/s
That makes $ICP 11,638× higher.
$ICP 1-hour transaction volume: 12.8M transactions
Cardano 1-hour transaction volume: 786 transactions
That makes $ICP 16,328× higher.
$ICP block time: 0.48 seconds
Cardano block time: 19.17 seconds
$ICP is 97.49% shorter.
$ICP finality: 0 seconds
Cardano finality: 2 minutes.
$ICP total transactions: 284B
Cardano total transactions: 121M
$ICP has processed 2,352× more total transactions, despite launching in 2021, while Cardano launched in 2017.
Decentralization
Cardano leads some decentralization metrics:
Cardano Nakamoto coefficient: 22
$ICP Nakamoto coefficient: 14
Cardano validators: 2,154
$ICP validators: 673
Cardano stake: $5.925B
$ICP stake: $768.8M
That is fair to say.
But decentralization without serious throughput does not solve internet-scale infrastructure.
Developer Activity
Cardano also leads historical developer metrics:
Cardano developers: 3,689
$ICP developers: 774
Cardano commits: 279,420
$ICP commits: 115,781
Cardano repos: 219
$ICP repos: 174
Cardano stars: 12,296
$ICP stars: 8,332.
Financials
This is where it gets interesting.
$ICP chain revenue: $12.73K
Cardano chain revenue: $1.956K
$ICP is generating 6.51× more chain revenue.
$ICP average transaction fee: $0.00004134
Cardano average transaction fee: $0.08872
$ICP fees are 99.95% lower.
Cardano market cap: $9.84B
$ICP market cap: $1.763B
Cardano FDV: $12.23B
$ICP FDV: $1.763B
$ICP market cap / FDV: 100%
Cardano market cap / FDV: 80.45%.
The conclusion is simple:
Cardano has the bigger valuation, more validators, more staked value, and more historical developer activity.
But $ICP is delivering:
✅ 16,088× higher real-time TPS
✅ 2,205× higher max TPS
✅ 11,638× higher theoretical TPS
✅ 16,328× higher 1-hour transaction volume
✅ 2,352× more total transactions
✅ 97.49% shorter block time
✅ 0-second finality
✅ 99.95% lower average transaction fees
✅ 6.51× higher chain revenue
That is not hype.
That is infrastructure data.
$ICP is not trying to be another slow settlement chain.
It is building full-stack onchain cloud infrastructure for apps, websites, AI systems, enterprise workloads, and multi-chain execution.
Cardano may be larger by market cap.
But $ICP is already proving what high-performance blockchain infrastructure looks like in production.
The market is sleeping.
The data is not.
$ICP by @dfinity
#ICP #InternetComputer #DFINITY #Cardano #ADA #Blockchain #Web3 #Crypto #DePIN #OnchainCloud #AI #ChainFusion #CaffeineAI
Support independent $ICP content:
ICP address:
1e672d038cebc619d93186418fa98f6499dbdb9cfdfac54f366c61a4a4ee4362
⚠️ICP just set a new record🚨
Cycle burn spiked 4× above normal as real DeFi usage exploded — 3k–5k tx/sec across 47 subnets in 35 countries, burning 8k–10k ICP daily🚀
This isn’t hype. This is real adoption ramping. 🌍💥♾️
For the 2026 bullrun, I pick Internet Computer (ICP) and Hedera (HBAR).
ICP: Blockchain platform for decentralized web services, smart contracts, and AI at scale. Solves centralization in cloud computing by enabling secure, tamper-proof hosting of apps and data.
HBAR: Distributed ledger using hashgraph for fast, low-cost transactions. Solves scalability in blockchains by offering high throughput and security for enterprise use like payments.
Comparison: ICP emphasizes full decentralization for web/AI, while HBAR prioritizes transaction efficiency. ICP has broader capabilities, encompassing HBAR-like transactions plus advanced compute and storage.
🏁 Leaderboard: Chainspect's Fastest
Nov 7 → Nov 14: Taraxa is on the rise
🥇 @dfinity stays unmatched
🥈 @solana holds strong
🥉 @BNBCHAIN locks in 3rd again
🔼 @taraxa_project climbs again and at this pace could be back in the top very soon
📊 https://t.co/2N4x6tA88c
$ICP we will see new ATH very soon 🔥
I will share randomly $5000 to someone when $ICP hit $88
You can believe or not but I believe on $ICP
If u want to win then like retweet and comment below 👇
@icterminal Please see ICR post. Caffeine will be a for-profit so can raise growth capital and execute like an aggressive tech venture (it already is) with purpose of driving massive usage of the Internet Computer (targeting millions of apps) Much work behind scenes, details will come later
Less than 1% of Web3 knows this:
ICP remains the ONLY blockchain a) running apps onchain vs ON CLOUD with just a token onchain, b) running REAL decentralized AI, and c) providing a unique specialized tech stack where AI can build apps SOLO.
But this is about to CHANGE... 🔴🧵