{"slug":"wormhole-vaa-latency","title":"Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency","subtitle":"Wall-clock seconds from a source-chain transaction being observed by the Guardian network to a Wormhole VAA reaching signing quorum, measured across 20 source chains via the public wormholescan indexer.","category":"Bridges","metric":"VAA finalization","unit":"ms","status":"live","higherIsBetter":false,"filters":null,"value":3692.98,"leader":{"name":"Sui","slug":"sui","value":3692.98},"rankings":[{"name":"Sui","slug":"sui","ms":{"p50":3692.98,"p90":5613.64,"p99":9561.36,"mean":3849.01},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":193.034},{"name":"Monad","slug":"monad","ms":{"p50":4166.67,"p90":8375,"p99":9837.5,"mean":4894.42},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":26.0045},{"name":"BNB Chain","slug":"bnb","ms":{"p50":5377.6,"p90":13564.5,"p99":1000500,"mean":39697.4},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":499.087},{"name":"Avalanche","slug":"avalanche","ms":{"p50":7173.91,"p90":9956.52,"p99":14466.7,"mean":6640.03},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":32.0056},{"name":"Polygon","slug":"polygon","ms":{"p50":7432.89,"p90":9889.26,"p99":14390,"mean":6905.87},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":183.032},{"name":"Berachain","slug":"berachain","ms":{"p50":7500,"p90":9500,"p99":9950,"mean":7275},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":1.00017},{"name":"Ink","slug":"ink","ms":{"p50":10000,"p90":14000,"p99":14900,"mean":8819.5},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":2.00035},{"name":"Solana","slug":"solana","ms":{"p50":17849.4,"p90":21845.7,"p99":29184.6,"mean":18577},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":6606.15},{"name":"Moonbeam","slug":"moonbeam","ms":{"p50":40833.3,"p90":55125,"p99":59512.5,"mean":44230.5},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":13.0023},{"name":"Ethereum","slug":"ethereum","ms":{"p50":921721,"p90":1144340,"p99":1194430,"mean":913692},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":1089.19},{"name":"Celo","slug":"celo","ms":{"p50":1050000,"p90":1170000,"p99":1197000,"mean":1143070},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":1.00017},{"name":"Arbitrum","slug":"arbitrum","ms":{"p50":1050000,"p90":1488000,"p99":1768800,"mean":979267},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":26.0045},{"name":"Unichain","slug":"unichain","ms":{"p50":1050010,"p90":1170020,"p99":1197020,"mean":1164230},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":1.00017},{"name":"Base","slug":"base","ms":{"p50":1272410,"p90":1694480,"p99":1789450,"mean":1146970},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":51.0089}],"sparkline":[3875,4100,4500,3800,3500,3687.5,3714.29,3650,3500,3500,3500,3500,3500,3500,3666.67,3687.5,3500,3500,3687.5,3800,3700,3500,3650,3666.67,3615.38,3772.73,3928.57,4000,3650,3750,3750,3687.5,3500,3500,4500,4250,4250,3500,3500,3500,3500,3500,3750,5500,6500,5625,3500,3800,4100,4100,3800,3500,3500,3500,3500,3500,3875,4000,3875,3500,3500,3500,3500,3500,3500,3500,3500,3500,3500,3500,3800,5000,4250],"sampleSize":8723.519659999996,"asOf":"2026-07-26T08:38:30.360Z","headline":"Sui leads vaa finalization at 3.69 s (p50, 24h) on Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency.","quote":"Sui leads vaa finalization at 3.69 s (p50, 24h) on Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/wormhole-vaa-latency).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency\". Retrieved 2026-07-26. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/wormhole-vaa-latency","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_wormhole_vaa_latency,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/wormhole-vaa-latency},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-07-26}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency. Retrieved July 26, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/wormhole-vaa-latency","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/wormhole-vaa-latency\r\nY2  - 2026-07-26\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/wormhole-vaa-latency","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/wormhole-vaa-latency","source":"https://github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/wormhole-vaa-latency","methodology":["Data source: `https://api.wormholescan.io/api/v1/vaas?pageSize=100`, the public wormholescan indexer of Wormhole VAAs. Polled every 60 seconds.","Latency definition: `updatedAt − timestamp` from the VAA row. `timestamp` is the source-chain observation time (block containing the Wormhole message); `updatedAt` is the moment wormholescan first indexed the VAA as fully-signed by 13-of-19 Guardians.","Dedupe: last 10 000 VAA ids kept in memory (rolling FIFO). Wormholescan returns ~100 VAAs/min sustained; 10k cache holds ~100 minutes of history, well above any poll interval.","Bucketing: histogram with geometric buckets 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 45, 60, 90, 120, 180, 300, 600 seconds.","Guard: samples with `updatedAt − timestamp < 0` or `> 3600 s` are dropped (clock skew or backfilled VAAs whose `updatedAt` refers to a later re-index event).","No canary transactions: this bench observes organic Wormhole traffic (thousands of VAAs/day). No wallet is funded, no gas is paid.","Scope: 20 source chains Wormhole supports that are already tracked on OpenChainBench's chain registry. Chains with negligible VAA volume in a 24-hour window may appear with wide error bars or a low sample count.","Destination chain is not measured: VAAs are relayed on demand once quorum is reached, so post-quorum latency is caller-driven (relayer choice, destination gas price, etc.) and not a property of Wormhole itself."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}