Stellar is a platform that aims to facilitate fast, affordable, and secure cross-asset transfers of value. It's built on a base layer that uses Lumens, the native asset of the Stellar network, as a bridge between any two currencies.

Stellar

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.

	Stellar	Cardano
Created by	Jed McCaleb	Charles Hoskinson
Native token	XLM	ADA
Consensus algorithm	PoS	PoS
Hashing algorithm	SCP	EdDSA
Supports EVM	No	No
TPS	200	250
Block time (secs)	5	20
Layer	1	1
Supports smart contracts	Yes	Yes
Average transaction fee	$8.5e-9	$0.18
Staking rewards (APR)	1%	5%

Stellar vs. Cardano

Overview

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Comparison

Is Stellar faster than Cardano?

Is Stellar cheaper than Cardano?