{"slug":"mev-protect-rpc","title":"Fastest MEV protection RPC, live wallet latency and method coverage","subtitle":"Median latency of the JSON-RPC method set wallets call constantly (balance, gas, call simulation), measured against public MEV protection gateways on Ethereum, Base and BSC from three regions. Read-path hygiene only: inclusion rates and refunds are the write path and cannot be measured without sending transactions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"Wallet call latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":8,"leader":{"name":"bloXroute Protect","slug":"bloxroute","value":8},"rankings":[{"name":"bloXroute Protect","slug":"bloxroute","ms":{"p50":8,"p90":9,"p99":10,"mean":8.51025},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":60473.1},{"name":"48 Club Privacy RPC","slug":"48club","ms":{"p50":22,"p90":25,"p99":28,"mean":22.0992},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":30236.5},{"name":"PancakeSwap MEV Guard","slug":"pancakeswap","ms":{"p50":25.5,"p90":32,"p99":33,"mean":25.1857},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":30236.5},{"name":"MEV Blocker","slug":"mevblocker","ms":{"p50":40,"p90":55,"p99":129.93,"mean":44.4897},"successRate":99.8644,"sampleSize":30234.8},{"name":"Blink","slug":"blinklabs","ms":{"p50":100,"p90":107,"p99":109,"mean":99.6126},"successRate":98.96340000000001,"sampleSize":90709.6},{"name":"Flashbots Protect","slug":"flashbots","ms":{"p50":101,"p90":108,"p99":110,"mean":102.11},"successRate":83.3327,"sampleSize":30244},{"name":"BlockSec Anti-MEV","slug":"blocksec","ms":{"p50":106,"p90":110,"p99":114,"mean":106.794},"successRate":99.9586,"sampleSize":60471.1}],"sparkline":[6.86335,6.68175,6.21173,6.23409,6.51938,6.88362,7.18681,7.36806,7.13889,7.06545,6.60166,6.67136,6.5773,6.81594,6.5626,6.45255,6.39439,6.57361,6.36319,6.21111,6.00694,5.81319,5.74722,5.59792,5.64306,5.65139,5.86875,5.83889,5.81319,5.75347,6.06875,6.37639,6.57083,6.45556,6.24028,6.1875,6.06111,5.87847,5.66667,5.70556,5.78125,6.00972,6.10278,6.22639,6.14444,5.9,5.69653,5.56944,5.63611,5.79444,6.01597,6.12986,6.16389,5.9375,5.78403,5.48333,5.42083,5.37569,5.43194,5.54375,5.67986,6.00486,6.08403,6.15,6.02708,6.29236,6.52917,6.65625,6.31319,5.85347,5.51736,5.35486,5.28264],"sampleSize":332605.60000000003,"asOf":"2026-08-14T16:28:55.305Z","headline":"bloXroute Protect leads wallet call latency at 8 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest MEV protection RPC, live wallet latency and method coverage.","quote":"bloXroute Protect leads wallet call latency at 8 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest MEV protection RPC, live wallet latency and method coverage. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/mev-protect-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest MEV protection RPC, live wallet latency and method coverage\". Retrieved 2026-08-14. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/mev-protect-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_mev_protect_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest MEV protection RPC, live wallet latency and method coverage},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/mev-protect-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-14}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest MEV protection RPC, live wallet latency and method coverage. Retrieved August 14, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/mev-protect-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest MEV protection RPC, live wallet latency and method coverage\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/mev-protect-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-14\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/mev-protect-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/mev-protect-rpc","source":"https://github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/mev-protect-rpc","methodology":["Providers measured, one row per (provider, chain), all keyless and live-verified 2026-07-12. Ethereum cohort: Flashbots Protect (rpc.flashbots.net), MEV Blocker (rpc.mevblocker.io), Blink formerly Merkle (ethereum.blinklabs.xyz), bloXroute Protect (eth-protect.rpc.blxrbdn.com), BlockSec Anti-MEV (eth.rpc.blocksec.com).","Base cohort: Blink (base.merkle.io) alone. No other MEV-protect gateway exposes a keyless Base endpoint today; Flashbots and MEV Blocker are Ethereum-only by design and base.rpc.blxrbdn.com is plain RPC, not documented as Protect.","BSC cohort: Blink (bsc.merkle.io), bloXroute Protect (bsc.rpc.blxrbdn.com), 48 Club Privacy RPC (rpc.48.club), PancakeSwap MEV Guard (bscrpc.pancakeswap.finance, powered by 48 Club), BlockSec (bsc.rpc.blocksec.com).","Exclusions: SecureRPC probed dead 2026-07-10. Alchemy MEV Protect and GetBlock protected endpoints are key-gated. Blink's Ethereum row uses the blinklabs.xyz host because the legacy eth.merkle.io alias rate-limits harder; on Base and BSC the merkle.io hosts are Blink's only keyless surface (base/bsc.blinklabs.xyz do not resolve as of 2026-07-12).","Chain dimension: the tabs pin every query to one chain. The All chains headline averages each provider over the chains it actually serves, the same convention as the rpc-capabilities cluster; the Chains covered panel shows the multi-chain footprint explicitly.","Method set: eth_chainId, eth_blockNumber, eth_gasPrice, eth_getBalance, eth_call (USDC balanceOf), eth_estimateGas, eth_feeHistory. One request per method per tick, 1.5s apart, rotating request ids against body-keyed edge caches.","Cadence: every 60 seconds per region (us-east, eu-west, sgp), 7 requests per gateway per tick, rows probed in parallel so each gateway still sees one request per 1.5s. Deliberately polite: these gateways rate-ban aggressive callers.","Headline: median latency across the methods the provider served that tick, aggregated over 24h with quantile_over_time. A rejected method does not poison the latency; it lowers the coverage panel instead.","Coverage: mev_rpc_methods_supported counts the wallet methods served on the last tick (max 7) per chain. Flashbots rejects eth_call on the public endpoint; Blink blocks full-node reads like eth_getBlockByNumber, which keeps it off the general RPC benches but not off this one.","Out of scope, disclosed: inclusion rate, refund economics and sandwich protection efficacy are the write path and require funded transactions. See the arXiv study Private MEV Protection RPCs (2505.19708) for a one-off execution-quality comparison.","Success rate counts transport failures only (timeouts, throttling, network); a method a gateway refuses by policy is a coverage gap shown in the coverage panel, not an outage. Failures increment mev_rpc_call_total{result}; the gauge keeps its last value so the chart shows the outage in the success column rather than a fake zero.","Scope discipline: this bench is deliberately kept off the /rpc chain leaderboard. The per-chain RPCs cluster (ethereum-rpc, base-rpc, bsc-rpc) ranks public read gateways on eth_getBlockByNumber latency. Ranking Flashbots Protect against PublicNode on that axis would flatter the wrong SLA: Flashbots is optimised for send-tx privacy, PublicNode for read speed. MEV protect gateways live here, ranked against each other on the read-path wallets actually feel."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}