Ethereum Classic RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency
HTTP round-trip latency for eth_getBlockByNumber against every free, no-key public Ethereum Classic EVM endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.
TL;DR. As of , dRPC is the only free public Ethereum Classic RPC endpoint measured, at 264 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench, https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/ethereum-classic-rpc.
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Ethereum Classic (chain 61) is the original Ethereum chain post-2016 DAO fork, continuing as a Proof-of-Work EVM network with ETC as the gas token. The chain upholds code-is-law immutability and has a dedicated long-term holder community. One keyless endpoint is probed continuously: dRPC (etc.drpc.org). ETCDesktop and ETCMC are no longer responding to probes and have been removed.
Methodology
Ethereum Classic: 1 free public RPC endpoints answering `eth_getBlockByNumber` every 60 seconds from us-east, eu-west and Singapore, ranked by 24h median. dRPC leads at 264 ms. We measure the round-trip latency of a single, identical RPC call (`eth_getBlockByNumber`) against every no-key public Ethereum Classic endpoint that sustains continuous probing, 1 provider at launch, every 60 seconds, from us-east, eu-west and Singapore. The cross-chain view lives on the parent `rpc-capabilities` benchmark; this page is the Ethereum Classic-scoped answer with per-region breakdowns as a first-class dimension.
Results: 1 free public Ethereum Classic RPC endpoint ranked by p50 latency (24h, 3 regions)
| № | Providers | p50 | p90 | p99 | Success |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dRPC | 264 ms | 495 ms | 753 ms | 99.58% |
Frequently asked
Which Ethereum Classic RPCs work without an API key?
1 endpoint sustains continuous keyless probing: dRPC (etc.drpc.org). ETCDesktop and ETCMC stopped responding to probes and have been removed from the bench.
Source code github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/rpc-capabilities