Band Protocol RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency
HTTP round-trip latency for Tendermint /status queries against every available public Band Protocol (laozi-mainnet) endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.
TL;DR. As of , Band Protocol has the lowest median latency of the 2 free public Band Protocol RPC endpoints measured, 120 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench, https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/bandchain-rpc.
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Band Protocol is a cross-chain decentralized oracle network built on Cosmos SDK (chain ID laozi-mainnet). It aggregates and connects real-world data and APIs to smart contracts across multiple blockchains via its Yoda oracle daemon and data feed infrastructure. The chain uses the standard Tendermint RPC interface; block height is fetched via the /status endpoint. Public keyless RPC nodes are provided by the Band Protocol official team, High Stakes, and Stakewolle. Every provider was live-verified with consecutive block-height probes at launch.
Methodology
Band Protocol: 2 free public RPC endpoints answering `GET /status` every 60 seconds from us-east, eu-west and Singapore, ranked by 24h median. Band Protocol leads at 120 ms; the chain-official endpoint measures 120 ms. We measure the round-trip latency of a Tendermint /status query against every available public Band Protocol endpoint that sustains continuous probing: 2 providers live today, every 60 seconds, from us-east, eu-west and Singapore. Each provider is probed via a GET /status request from which the block number is extracted. 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 Band Protocol-scoped answer with per-region breakdowns as a first-class dimension.
Results: 2 free public Band Protocol RPC endpoints ranked by p50 latency (24h, 3 regions)
| № | Providers | p50 | p90 | p99 | Success |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Band Protocol | 120 ms | 123 ms | 252 ms | 100.00% |
| 2 | High Stakes | 187 ms | 611 ms | 723 ms | 100.00% |
Frequently asked
Which Band Protocol RPC endpoints work without an API key?
3 endpoints are probed on this chain: Band Protocol official (rpc.laozi1.bandchain.org), High Stakes (bandprotocol-rpc.highstakes.ch), and Stakewolle (public.stakewolle.com/cosmos/bandchain/rpc). Every listed endpoint was live-verified before inclusion.
What is Band Protocol and why does its RPC latency matter?
Band Protocol is a cross-chain data oracle that aggregates real-world data feeds and delivers them to smart contracts via oracle scripts. Validators running the Yoda daemon and DeFi protocols consuming Band price feeds both depend on low-latency reliable RPC access to the Band chain.
What is the BAND token?
BAND is the native staking and governance token of Band Protocol (denominated as uband on-chain). It is used to stake as validators, pay for oracle data requests, and participate in on-chain governance of the laozi-mainnet.
Source code github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/rpc-capabilities