{"slug":"layerzero-message-latency","title":"Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery","subtitle":"Wall-clock seconds from source-chain transaction to destination-chain execution for a LayerZero message, measured across LayerZero source chains via the public layerzero-scan feed.","category":"Bridges","metric":"LayerZero delivery","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":19869.4,"leader":{"name":"Monad","slug":"monad","value":19869.4},"rankings":[{"name":"Monad","slug":"monad","ms":{"p50":19869.4,"p90":39907,"p99":1113880,"mean":58434.4},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":488.085},{"name":"Robinhood Chain","slug":"robinhood","ms":{"p50":25138.9,"p90":54063.2,"p99":188800,"mean":28996.4},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":278.048},{"name":"Arbitrum","slug":"arbitrum","ms":{"p50":26393.1,"p90":979466,"p99":1645280,"mean":164728},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":1573.27},{"name":"BNB Chain","slug":"bnb","ms":{"p50":31086.1,"p90":60000,"p99":480833,"mean":49689.1},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":1930.34},{"name":"Solana","slug":"solana","ms":{"p50":42292.4,"p90":99986.1,"p99":394875,"mean":52238},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":647.112},{"name":"Unichain","slug":"unichain","ms":{"p50":45600.2,"p90":108001,"p99":1728000,"mean":172444},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":36.0062},{"name":"Celo","slug":"celo","ms":{"p50":46363.6,"p90":98000,"p99":117800,"mean":44590.9},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":22.0041},{"name":"Avalanche","slug":"avalanche","ms":{"p50":46721.4,"p90":254667,"p99":1398000,"mean":106910},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":134.024},{"name":"Ink","slug":"ink","ms":{"p50":46875.1,"p90":270000,"p99":3510000,"mean":260333},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":15.0026},{"name":"Base","slug":"base","ms":{"p50":53391.6,"p90":108798,"p99":301400,"mean":63267},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":1693.29},{"name":"Mantle","slug":"mantle","ms":{"p50":67500,"p90":113500,"p99":831000,"mean":88565.2},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":23.004},{"name":"Optimism","slug":"optimism","ms":{"p50":68425.5,"p90":137905,"p99":444000,"mean":94462},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":552.096},{"name":"Polygon","slug":"polygon","ms":{"p50":100971,"p90":265420,"p99":1012290,"mean":143888},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":438.076},{"name":"Linea","slug":"linea","ms":{"p50":240723,"p90":441600,"p99":584160,"mean":246742},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":132.023},{"name":"Ethereum","slug":"ethereum","ms":{"p50":249839,"p90":701918,"p99":1173040,"mean":309870},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":2012.35},{"name":"Scroll","slug":"scroll","ms":{"p50":299999,"p90":539999,"p99":594000,"mean":299332},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":18.0035}],"sparkline":[22500,19500,16875,17500,24375,15000,15000,15000,75000,30000,22500,22500,20625,24375,45000,55000,30000,15000,15000,22500,37500,26250,23437.5,21710.5,22500,21944.4,22058.8,18750,16875,18125,14000,18750,15000,14000,16875,19326.9,19256.8,18841.5,17083.3,15681.8,17500,16000,16875,16250,23571.4,22500,22500,19687.5,19166.7,18750,22500,25500,23750,22500,22500,17142.9,21562.5,18529.4,20735.3,18173.1,17812.5,18000,20431,20937.5,23333.3,21250,23181.8,18000,19431.8,20277.8,21111.1,20217.4],"sampleSize":9992.7344,"asOf":"2026-08-14T15:57:51.373Z","headline":"Monad leads layerzero delivery at 19.87 s (p50, 24h) on Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery.","quote":"Monad leads layerzero delivery at 19.87 s (p50, 24h) on Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/layerzero-message-latency).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery\". Retrieved 2026-08-14. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/layerzero-message-latency","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_layerzero_message_latency,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/layerzero-message-latency},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-14}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery. Retrieved August 14, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/layerzero-message-latency","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/layerzero-message-latency\r\nY2  - 2026-08-14\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/layerzero-message-latency","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/layerzero-message-latency","source":"https://github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/layerzero-message-latency","methodology":["Data source: `https://scan.layerzero-api.com/v1/messages/latest?limit=150`, the public LayerZero Scan API. Polled every 60 seconds, 2 pages per poll (cursor via `nextToken`).","Latency definition: `destination.tx.blockTimestamp - source.tx.blockTimestamp` from a LayerZero message row with `status.name: DELIVERED`. Both timestamps are Unix seconds from the source and destination chain blocks respectively.","Filter: only `DELIVERED` messages contribute to latency. In-flight statuses (INFLIGHT, CONFIRMING, PAYLOAD_STORED, BLOCKED, FAILED) are counted separately in `lz_message_status_total` so a spike in CONFIRMING without matching DELIVERED surfaces a stuck-message incident.","Dedupe: last 10 000 guids kept in memory (rolling FIFO). LayerZero sustained rate is ~4 messages/second network-wide, so the cache holds ~40 minutes of history.","Bucketing: histogram with buckets 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 45, 60, 90, 120, 180, 300, 600, 900, 1200, 1800 seconds (30 min ceiling).","Guard: samples with delta `< 0` or `> 30 min` are dropped (clock skew, stuck messages re-executed later).","No canary transactions: this bench observes organic LayerZero traffic (~250 messages/hour network-wide). No wallet is funded, no gas is paid.","Scope: LayerZero-supported source chains with mainnet traffic in the observation window. LayerZero exposes many exotic chains (orderly, flare, ape, robinhood) that show up as separate rows once volume is non-trivial; low-traffic sources will have wide error bars.","Fair-comparison caveat: LayerZero DVNs sign pre-finality by default, so end-to-end delivery excludes the source-chain finality wait that finality-aware networks (Chainlink CCIP, Axelar on Ethereum-source) impose. Comparing raw numbers to those on ETH-source lanes is not apples-to-apples."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}