{"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":23077,"leader":{"name":"Monad","slug":"monad","value":23077},"rankings":[{"name":"Monad","slug":"monad","ms":{"p50":23077,"p90":46501.3,"p99":1062010,"mean":44350.6},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":46.0153},{"name":"Robinhood Chain","slug":"robinhood","ms":{"p50":27241.5,"p90":57533.3,"p99":117686,"mean":30292.2},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":154.049},{"name":"BNB Chain","slug":"bnb","ms":{"p50":27887.7,"p90":59584.1,"p99":218938,"mean":36671.6},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":608.201},{"name":"Arbitrum","slug":"arbitrum","ms":{"p50":27986,"p90":1150010,"p99":1731320,"mean":228737},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":435.148},{"name":"Celo","slug":"celo","ms":{"p50":47482.3,"p90":57496.5,"p99":59749.6,"mean":29780.5},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":5.00899},{"name":"Avalanche","slug":"avalanche","ms":{"p50":48758.4,"p90":59944.6,"p99":116939,"mean":39768.6},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":41.0439},{"name":"Unichain","slug":"unichain","ms":{"p50":52500,"p90":58500,"p99":59850,"mean":45000},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4.00131},{"name":"Ink","slug":"ink","ms":{"p50":52502.9,"p90":58505.3,"p99":59855.8,"mean":3023190},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":1.00054},{"name":"Solana","slug":"solana","ms":{"p50":53964.6,"p90":107330,"p99":118733,"mean":48787.9},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":55.0502},{"name":"Base","slug":"base","ms":{"p50":91176.1,"p90":115341,"p99":232620,"mean":67242.6},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":437.15},{"name":"Optimism","slug":"optimism","ms":{"p50":94754.5,"p90":150331,"p99":289193,"mean":103749},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":109.04},{"name":"Mantle","slug":"mantle","ms":{"p50":102493,"p90":116504,"p99":119657,"mean":74500.2},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":14.0053},{"name":"Polygon","slug":"polygon","ms":{"p50":110591,"p90":264599,"p99":1111000,"mean":153560},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":89.0327},{"name":"Scroll","slug":"scroll","ms":{"p50":226685,"p90":375208,"p99":577521,"mean":233877},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":15.0056},{"name":"Linea","slug":"linea","ms":{"p50":232501,"p90":298499,"p99":566997,"mean":225819},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":11.0044},{"name":"Ethereum","slug":"ethereum","ms":{"p50":249372,"p90":931418,"p99":1179140,"mean":323921},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":413.131}],"sparkline":[20000,17500,17486.1,18640,21153.8,14444.4,15012.7,16876.7,22500,22500,22500,30000,30000,45000,45000,45000,1050000,1050000,30000,37500],"sampleSize":2437.88724,"asOf":"2026-07-26T08:36:01.447Z","headline":"Monad leads layerzero delivery at 23.08 s (p50, 24h) on Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery.","quote":"Monad leads layerzero delivery at 23.08 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 2026-07-26. 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 2026-07-26}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery. Retrieved July 26, 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  - 2026-07-26\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; the meta-bench (cross-chain-messaging-latency) documents the tradeoff."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}