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Taiko block time

As of June 17, 2026, Taiko block time is 2.17 s at the median (p50, 24h window), with 6.09 s at p90 and 6.43 s at p99. Taiko ranks #6 of 9 chains measured on this benchmark.

Taiko block time is 2.17 s (p50, 24h). Taiko is a based rollup: there is no centralized sequencer; Ethereum L1 validators sequence Taiko blocks directly by including L2 proposals in L1 blocks, which means Taiko's effective slot is bounded below by Ethereum's 12 s slot. The architecture trades raw L2 cadence for inheriting Ethereum's liveness and censorship-resistance. Measured via `newHeads` on the public Taiko WebSocket.

How Taiko 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.