{"slug":"waves-rpc","title":"Fastest free Waves RPC, live no-key endpoint latency","subtitle":"HTTP round-trip latency for GET /blocks/last against every available public Waves node, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.","category":"RPCs","metric":"RPC latency","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":205.69,"leader":{"name":"Waves.Exchange","slug":"wx-network","value":205.69},"rankings":[{"name":"Waves.Exchange","slug":"wx-network","ms":{"p50":205.69,"p90":229.874,"p99":546.652,"mean":216.685},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4316.84},{"name":"Waves Exchange Node","slug":"waves-exchange","ms":{"p50":207.054,"p90":230.736,"p99":591.002,"mean":218.301},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4316.84},{"name":"Waves Foundation","slug":"wavesnodes","ms":{"p50":345.392,"p90":477.353,"p99":959.106,"mean":341.342},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":4322.84}],"sparkline":[201.4,201.161,200.579,200.515,200.66,201.591,211.617,210.232,209.529,198.889,204.057,210.73,211.932,210.596,206.512,203.876,201.195,198.653,199.257,197.627,203.258,208.312,213.477,213.487,216.401,215.356,215.801,213.573,241.638,239.395,238.701,211.013,220.407,218.972,220.029,210.954,233.247,273.954,297.494,276.232,234.075,211.322,207.759,217.637,222.955,233.521,224.519,216.539,212.279,210.797,216.249,215.442,215.072,222.64,219.078,219.287,209.525,208.921,210.314,208.434,213.476,214.802,217.955,213.429,213.063,212.994,213.877,218.784,222.384,226.443,221.441,215.454,212.216],"sampleSize":12956.52,"asOf":"2026-08-22T04:09:48.477Z","headline":"Waves.Exchange posts the lowest rpc latency at 206 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Waves RPC, live no-key endpoint latency.","quote":"Waves.Exchange posts the lowest rpc latency at 206 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Waves RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/waves-rpc).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest free Waves RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\". Retrieved 2026-08-22. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/waves-rpc","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_waves_rpc,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest free Waves RPC, live no-key endpoint latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/waves-rpc},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-08-22}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest free Waves RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Retrieved August 22, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/waves-rpc","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest free Waves RPC, live no-key endpoint latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/waves-rpc\r\nY2  - 2026-08-22\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/waves-rpc","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/waves-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: HTTP GET /blocks/last. Plain REST call. The response carries height as a plain integer.","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 + parsable height integer), http_err, jsonrpc_err, stale (block more than 5 behind the cross-provider tip), timeout. Latency without reliability is a misleading ranking signal.","This page is part of the per-chain RPC cluster derived from the cross-chain 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=waves. Provider coverage at launch: 3 endpoints (Waves Foundation, Waves.Exchange x2)."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}