Compare Ethereum and Stacks on TVL, fees, revenue and activity to understand how these projects stack up.
$41.05B
Ethereum is the leading smart‑contract platform, now running Proof‑of‑Stake after the 2022 ‘Merge’ and gearing up for full Danksharding. Proto‑danksharding (EIP‑4844) activated blob transactions in March 2024, slashing rollup data costs by > 90 %. The upcoming Pectra upgrade will pair Verkle trees with wallet abstraction (EIP‑4337) to simplify UX.
Stacks is a Bitcoin Layer‑2 secured by Proof‑of‑Transfer where miners commit BTC to mint STX and anchor blocks to Bitcoin every 10–15 minutes. Clarity smart contracts enable DeFi with Bitcoin finality, and the sBTC proposal aims to bring a two‑way peg for native BTC on chain. The Nakamoto upgrade scheduled for 2025 will reduce block times to five seconds and add probabilistic Bitcoin finality.