{"slug":"warden-rpc","title":"Fastest free Warden Protocol RPC, live no-key endpoint 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":182,"leader":{"name":"Warden Foundation","slug":"warden-official","value":182},"rankings":[{"name":"Warden Foundation","slug":"warden-official","ms":{"p50":182,"p90":193.967,"p99":253.793,"mean":186.444},"successRate":99.8143,"sampleSize":4310.61},{"name":"PublicNode","slug":"publicnode","ms":{"p50":238.667,"p90":643.333,"p99":730.333,"mean":312.685},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4313.6}],"sparkline":[189.565,196.457,197.158,197.488,192.175,191.268,188.995,187.037,184.635,184.278,184.693,186.801,188.584,190.735,189.34,187.854,185.451,186.618,186.833,186.199,186.401,190.558,194.76,197.763,194.476,192.356,191.151,192.287,190.6,186.404,183.606,183.356,183.3,185.767,185.897,186.256,184.971,184.347,183.84,185.772,185.19,183.988,181.854,180.921,180.438,178.561,180.706,183.215,184.543,182.647,189.857,189.668,191.768,185.415,183.744,182.024,179.076,180.585,180.438,180.661,181.075,182.642,183.839,184.338,183.4,183.022,182.257,183.164,184.946,184.406,183.959,185.317,193.254],"sampleSize":8624.21,"asOf":"2026-08-08T07:10:02.543Z","headline":"Warden Foundation leads rpc latency at 182 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Warden Protocol RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"Warden Foundation leads rpc latency at 182 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Warden Protocol RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/warden-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Warden Protocol RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-08. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/warden-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_warden_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Warden Protocol RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/warden-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-08}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Warden Protocol RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 8, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/warden-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Warden Protocol RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/warden-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-08\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: client-side round-trip delta in milliseconds, exposed as both a gauge and a histogram (buckets 50 ms to 10 s), so percentiles are computed via Prometheus `quantile_over_time` over the last 24 hours.","Call-result classification: `ok` (HTTP 200 + non-empty result), `http_err`, `jsonrpc_err`, `stale` (more than 20 blocks behind the cross-provider tip), `timeout`.","This page is part of the per-chain RPC cluster derived from the cross-chain [rpc-capabilities](https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/rpc-capabilities) benchmark; the identical harness, cadence and exclusion rules apply on every chain.","Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to `chain=\"warden\"`. Provider coverage at launch: 3 no-key endpoints."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}