{"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":62.9322,"leader":{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","value":62.9322},"rankings":[{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":62.9322,"p90":146.004,"p99":591.14,"mean":94.9201},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4313.77},{"name":"Warden Foundation","slug":"warden-official","ms":{"p50":118.615,"p90":208.855,"p99":455.924,"mean":144.765},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4318.77}],"sparkline":[74.5271,78.5846,71.1451,69.7881,68.3698,73.8907,90.0614,99.7645,103.71,108.755,98.5539,97.2825,79.7323,81.045,73.3587,71.9325,76.3741,80.0461,77.9658,74.5734,75.3123,81.7538,80.4166,94.9625,106.264,115.518,129.996,143.458,156.333,132.061,128.593,175.79,224.109,204.531,145.127,95.1876,93.4195,90.239,85.2011,87.6154,125.552,138.762,145.285,104.223,93.5154,84.5966,83.3099,82.3756,77.6376,72.3988,67.7693,71.4677,74.4845,74.5988,70.3844,66.6202,66.7033,72.7536,76.7987,73.0419,71.8713,66.7115,72.2968,67.0085,68.2757,63.8811,69.2891,87.941,90.6365,106.904,99.4428,107.781,95.9928],"sampleSize":8632.54,"asOf":"2026-09-23T03:40:03.712Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-09-23T03:40:03.712Z","ageHours":0.1,"stale":false},"measured":2,"headline":"PublicNode has the lowest median latency of the 2 free public Warden Protocol RPC endpoints measured, 63 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions).","quote":"PublicNode has the lowest median latency of the 2 free public Warden Protocol RPC endpoints measured, 63 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 2026-09-23. 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 2026-09-23}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Warden Protocol RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency. Retrieved September 23, 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  - 2026-09-23\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"}