Cardano is a blockchain platform that, in some ways, aims to improve on the design of the original blockchain. Cardano is an open source project that features a smart contract system as well as a new proof-of-stake algorithm. What makes Cardano unique from other blockchain platforms is their philosophy of engineering decisions toward a "philosophy of simplicity". The goal of this philosophy is to eventually reduce the total number of ways to interact with the chain to three: (1) stake, (2) spend and (3) vote.

Cardano

Avalanche blockchain is a decentralized platform for public and private ledgers that combines performance and security. Avalanche is a platform that allows for multiple different blockchain systems to be layered on top of each other in order to create an infinitely scalable, cryptographically secure, tamper-proof ledger that can be used for any number of industries. The Avalanche network will be resistant to attacks from quantum computers, which are predicted to be capable of breaking the asymmetric encryption used today.

	Cardano	Avalanche
Created by	Charles Hoskinson	Emin Gün Sirer, Kevin Sekniqi, and Ted Yin
Native token	ADA	AVAX
Consensus algorithm	PoS	PoS
Hashing algorithm	EdDSA	KECCAK-256
Supports EVM	No	Yes
TPS	250	4500
Block time (secs)	20	2
Layer	1	0
Supports smart contracts	Yes	Yes
Average transaction fee	$0.18	$0.12
Staking rewards (APR)	5%	8.96%

Cardano vs. Avalanche

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Is Cardano faster than Avalanche?

Is Cardano cheaper than Avalanche?