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Arbitrum One block time

As of June 17, 2026, Arbitrum One block time is 251 ms at the median (p50, 24h window), with 280 ms at p90 and 477 ms at p99. Arbitrum One ranks #1 of 9 chains measured on this benchmark.

Arbitrum One block time is 251 ms (p50, 24h). Arbitrum Nitro defaults to a 250 ms sequencer interval, by far the most aggressive cadence in the L2 cohort, made possible because the Nitro stack decouples block production from L1 anchoring and runs a single Offchain Labs sequencer that posts batches to Ethereum asynchronously. Measured by holding an `eth_subscribe("newHeads")` WebSocket on the public Arbitrum RPC and recording wall-clock deltas between consecutive head events.

How Arbitrum One compares

Live p50 over the last 24 hours across every chain on this benchmark, ranked lowest first.

  1. #1Arbitrum One251 ms
  2. #2Base2.00 s
  3. #3Blast2.00 s
  4. #4Optimism2.00 s
  5. #5Mantle2.00 s
  6. #6Taiko2.17 s
  7. #7Linea3.83 s
  8. #8zkSync Era4.60 s
  9. #9Scroll8.22 s

Methodology, charts and the full ledger live on the Fastest L2 block time, live across Arbitrum, Base, Optimism and 6 more page. Raw data: JSON endpoint.