{"slug":"warden-rpc","title":"Warden Protocol RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every free, no-key public Warden Protocol EVM endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":91.5914,"leader":{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":91.5914},"leaders":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":91.5914}],"rankings":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":91.5914,"p90":197.882,"p99":344.302,"mean":109.262},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4318.72},{"name":"Warden Foundation","slug":"warden-official","ms":{"p50":110.878,"p90":123.155,"p99":293.852,"mean":115.784},"successRate":99.9768,"sampleSize":4317.72}],"sparkline":[100.761,97.1812,99.5758,92.5665,97.7399,95.5151,95.8899,93.6778,94.5846,94.6519,92.7167,91.5651,96.3563,98.9187,106.242,111.868,126.025,125.62,120.471,108.868,108.946,112.78,117.303,121.097,112.491,100.992,95.2785,95.2075,98.3954,91.7413,98.1429,100.92,109.787,105.453,110.989,105.699,119.915,115.357,120.482,116.558,120.353,121.476,126.338,125.915,122.632,117.319,117.114,131.471,135.203,136.801,124.174,114.529,119.622,125.295,124.998,112.359,101.412,99.9197,102.544,104.9,103.6,101.174,100.183,102.113,101.655,101.43,101.049,108.812,112.968,114.833,113.422,112.752,109.948],"sampleSize":8636.44,"asOf":"2026-10-07T01:17:47.674Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-10-07T01:17:47.674Z","ageHours":0,"stale":false},"measured":2,"ranked":2,"headline":"PublicNode has the lowest median latency of the 2 free public Warden Protocol RPC endpoints measured, 92 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"PublicNode has the lowest median latency of the 2 free public Warden Protocol RPC endpoints measured, 92 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/warden-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Warden Protocol RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\". Retrieved 2026-10-07. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/warden-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_warden_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Warden Protocol RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/warden-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-10-07}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Warden Protocol RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved October 7, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/warden-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Warden Protocol RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/warden-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-10-07\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/warden-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/warden-rpc","source":"https://github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/rpc-capabilities","methodology":["Cadence: every 60 seconds per provider, from each of 3 probe regions (us-east Virginia, eu-west Amsterdam, sgp Singapore). Headline p50/p90/p99 aggregate across all 3 regions via Prometheus `avg(quantile_over_time(...))`; per-region breakdowns are first-class on this page via the region tabs.","Payload: `{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"id\":<rotating>,\"method\":\"eth_getBlockByNumber\",\"params\":[\"latest\",false]}`. Plain HTTP POST, identical for every endpoint, no API key in any request.","Latency measurement, call-result classification (`ok`, `http_err`, `jsonrpc_err`, `stale`, `timeout`) and the archive-depth audit follow the cluster method documented on [rpc-capabilities](https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/rpc-capabilities#methodology); this page is the Warden Protocol-scoped view of the same harness, with the same exclusion rules.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to `chain=\"warden\"`. Provider coverage today: 2 no-key endpoints."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}