dYdX Chain RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency
HTTP round-trip latency for the Tendermint status method against every free, no-key public dYdX Chain Cosmos SDK endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.
TL;DR. As of , PublicNode has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public dYdX Chain RPC endpoints measured, 63 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench, https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/dydx-rpc. 3 public endpoints, no key: dydx-rpc.publicnode.com, dydx-rpc.polkachu.com, rpc.lavenderfive.com. Full URLs with their 24h median are listed below.
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dYdX Chain (dydx-mainnet-1) is a Cosmos SDK app-chain running the dYdX perpetuals DEX entirely on-chain in CometBFT consensus, with ~1 s block time and the DYDX governance token. PublicNode, Polkachu, and LavenderFive all run keyless Tendermint RPC endpoints probed every 60 seconds from three regions.
Methodology
dYdX Chain: 3 free public RPC endpoints answering `status` every 60 seconds from us-east, eu-west and Singapore, ranked by 24h median. PublicNode leads at 63 ms. We measure the round-trip latency of a single, identical Cosmos SDK call (Tendermint `status`) against every no-key public dYdX Chain endpoint that sustains continuous probing, 3 providers live today, every 60 seconds, from us-east, eu-west and Singapore. The harness classifies every response (ok / http_err / jsonrpc_err / stale / timeout) with a dYdX-scaled staleness gap (40 blocks at ~1 s block time). The cross-chain view lives on the parent `rpc-capabilities` benchmark; this page is the dYdX Chain-scoped answer with per-region breakdowns as a first-class dimension.
- 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: `{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":<rotating>,"method":"status","params":[]}`. Plain HTTP POST, identical for every endpoint, no API key in any request.
- Latency measurement, call-result classification (`ok`, `http_err`, `jsonrpc_err`, `stale`, `timeout`) and the archive-depth audit follow the cluster method documented on [rpc-capabilities](openchainbench.com/benchmarks/rpc-capabilities#methodology); this page is the dYdX Chain-scoped view of the same harness, with the same exclusion rules.
- Chain scope: every query on this page is pinned to `chain="dydx"`. Provider coverage today: 3 no-key endpoints.
Results: 3 free public dYdX Chain RPC endpoints ranked by p50 latency (24h, 3 regions)
| № | Providers | p50 | p90 | p99 | Success |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PublicNode | 63 ms | 119 ms | 418 ms | 100.00% (n=4316) |
| 2 | Polkachu | 133 ms | 157 ms | 251 ms | 99.98% (n=4320) |
| 3 | LavenderFive | 184 ms | 208 ms | 246 ms | 99.98% (n=4313) |
Public dYdX Chain 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://dydx-rpc.publicnode.com63 ms100.0%Polkachu
https://dydx-rpc.polkachu.com133 ms100.0%LavenderFive
https://rpc.lavenderfive.com:443/dydx184 ms100.0%
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.
Source code github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/rpc-capabilities