Fastest free Bitlayer RPC, live no-key endpoint latency
HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every free, no-key public Bitlayer RPC endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.
TL;DR. As of , Ankr leads rpc latency at 5 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free Bitlayer RPC, live no-key endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench, https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/bitlayer-rpc.
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Bitlayer is the first EVM-compatible Bitcoin L2 (chain 200901) secured by a BitVM-based fraud-proof scheme with BTC as the gas token. The official endpoint (`rpc.bitlayer.org`) is operated by Bitlayer Labs, with dRPC and Ankr providing additional keyless alternatives probed every 60 seconds from three regions.
Methodology
Per-chain member of the RPC latency cluster, extended to Bitlayer. We measure the round-trip latency of a single, identical RPC call (`eth_getBlockByNumber`) against every no-key public Bitlayer endpoint that sustains continuous probing, 3 providers at launch, every 60 seconds, from us-east, eu-west and Singapore. The harness classifies every response (ok / http_err / jsonrpc_err / stale / timeout) so the leaderboard rewards sustained availability rather than fast error messages. The cross-chain view lives on the parent `rpc-capabilities` benchmark; this page is the Bitlayer-scoped answer with per-region breakdowns as a first-class dimension.
Frequently asked
What is the fastest free Bitlayer RPC right now?
Ankr currently leads at 5 ms (`eth_getBlockByNumber` p50 over the last 24h), measured against 3 no-key providers probed every 60 seconds from us-east, eu-west and Singapore. The leaderboard re-sorts continuously against fresh Prometheus samples.
Which Bitlayer RPCs work without an API key?
3 endpoints sustain continuous keyless probing at launch: Bitlayer Official, dRPC, Ankr. Every listed endpoint was live-verified before inclusion.
Does the fastest Bitlayer RPC change by region?
Often. The region tabs at the top of the page re-scope every number to a single origin; pick the one closest to where your requests originate.
How is Bitlayer RPC latency measured here?
One identical JSON-RPC POST (`eth_getBlockByNumber`) every 60 seconds against each provider from each of 3 regions. Responses are classified so an endpoint stuck on an old head or returning errors is never ranked as fastest.
Source code github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/rpc-capabilities