Babylon RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency
HTTP round-trip latency for Tendermint status queries against every available public Babylon endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.
TL;DR. As of , PublicNode has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public Babylon RPC endpoints measured, 87 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench, https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/babylon-rpc. 3 public endpoints, no key: babylon-rpc.publicnode.com, babylon-rpc.polkachu.com, rpc.lavenderfive.com. Full URLs with their 24h median are listed below.
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Babylon is a Cosmos SDK proof-of-stake blockchain that enables Bitcoin staking; BTC holders can stake their coins to provide economic security to Babylon and other PoS chains without moving their Bitcoin off the Bitcoin network. Babylon uses the CometBFT consensus engine and exposes a standard Tendermint RPC interface. Public endpoints are available without an API key from PublicNode, Polkachu, and LavenderFive. Every provider was live-verified with consecutive block-height probes at launch.
Methodology
Babylon: 3 free public RPC endpoints answering `GET /status` every 60 seconds from us-east, eu-west and Singapore, ranked by 24h median. PublicNode leads at 87 ms. We measure the round-trip latency of a Tendermint status query against every available public Babylon endpoint that sustains continuous probing: 3 providers live today, every 60 seconds, from us-east, eu-west and Singapore. Each provider is probed via a GET request to its /status endpoint, from which the latest_block_height field is read. The harness classifies every response (ok / http_err / jsonrpc_err / stale / timeout) with a Cosmos-scaled staleness gap (40 blocks, around 4 min at 6 s/block). The cross-chain view lives on the parent rpc-capabilities benchmark; this page is the Babylon-scoped answer with per-region breakdowns as a first-class dimension.
Results: 3 free public Babylon RPC endpoints ranked by p50 latency (24h, 3 regions)
| № | Providers | p50 | p90 | p99 | Success |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PublicNode | 87 ms | 156 ms | 381 ms | 100.00% |
| 2 | Polkachu | 107 ms | 118 ms | 201 ms | 100.00% |
| 3 | LavenderFive | 152 ms | 199 ms | 261 ms | 74.43% |
Public Babylon RPC endpoints measured
The 3 no-key endpoints answering our probes today, with their current 24h median. Paste one into a wallet or a client as is: no signup, no key. Private providers (API key) are never listed with a URL.
PublicNodehttps://babylon-rpc.publicnode.com87 ms100.0%
Polkachuhttps://babylon-rpc.polkachu.com107 ms100.0%
LavenderFivehttps://rpc.lavenderfive.com:443/babylon152 ms74.4%
Median round-trip and success rate over the last 24 hours across the probe regions; the ranked table above carries p90, p99 and the per-region split.
Frequently asked
Which Babylon RPC endpoints work without an API key?
3 endpoints are probed on this chain: PublicNode (babylon-rpc.publicnode.com), Polkachu (babylon-rpc.polkachu.com) and LavenderFive (rpc.lavenderfive.com/babylon). Every listed endpoint was live-verified with a block-height probe returning a parsable result before inclusion.
What is Babylon and why does its RPC latency matter?
Babylon is a Cosmos SDK chain that enables native Bitcoin staking. Developers building on Babylon or integrating its Bitcoin staking protocol need reliable low-latency RPC access to query chain state, submit transactions, and monitor finality. Knowing which public endpoint is fastest from your region helps optimize integration performance.
Source code github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/rpc-capabilities