Cardano

Cardano processed 0.32 transactions per second over a 655-second sample taken October 12, 2026, with an average block time of 23.4s. DefiLlama reported $69.3M of total value locked on the chain that day. Users paid $21,596 in network fees over the preceding 24 hours.

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Key Facts

FamilyCardano
Launched2017
Native assetCardano (ADA)
Developer docsdocs.cardano.org

Measured Performance

Measured October 12, 2026. Throughput from Cardano's public node; TVL and fees from DefiLlama.
Measured TPS0.32
Sample window655 seconds
Transactions in sample208
Average block time23.4s
Total value locked$69.3M
Fees, last 24 hours$21,596

29 blocks read from the public Koios API. Cardano mints a block roughly every twenty seconds, so this window is a small number of blocks.

Measured throughput over timeOne sample per daily run, newest on the right. Each point is transactions per second counted from Cardano's own public node.
7.160.10Sep 13Oct 12Sep 13: 0.10 TPSSep 14: 0.16 TPSSep 16: 0.21 TPSSep 17: 0.22 TPSSep 18: 0.21 TPSSep 21: 0.24 TPSSep 22: 0.24 TPSSep 23: 0.29 TPSSep 26: 0.26 TPSSep 27: 0.20 TPSSep 28: 0.23 TPSSep 29: 0.21 TPSSep 30: 0.33 TPSOct 1: 0.44 TPSOct 4: 0.21 TPSOct 5: 0.27 TPSOct 6: 0.17 TPSOct 7: 1.81 TPSOct 8: 7.16 TPSOct 9: 1.53 TPSOct 11: 3.90 TPSOct 12: 0.32 TPS

Throughput is counted by RampAtlas from recent blocks on Cardano's public node over the window shown, not a theoretical maximum. Total value locked and 24-hour fees come from DefiLlama. A page whose newest sample is more than 120 days old is not indexed.

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