World Chain RPC endpoints: free public URLs by latency
HTTP round-trip latency for the `eth_getBlockByNumber(\"latest\", false)` method against every free, no-key public World Chain EVM endpoint, audited every 60 seconds from 3 regions.
TL;DR. As of , World Chain has the lowest median latency of the 3 free public World Chain RPC endpoints measured, 75 ms (p50, 24h, 3 regions). Source: OpenChainBench, https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/world-chain-rpc. Chain ID 480. 3 public endpoints, no key: worldchain-mainnet.g.alchemy.com, worldchain-mainnet.gateway.tenderly.co, worldchain.drpc.org. Full URLs with their 24h median are listed below.
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World Chain is an OP Stack rollup (chain 480) launched by Tools for Humanity in 2024, giving World ID-verified humans prioritised block space. ETH gas, standard EVM JSON-RPC. Excluded by the launch audit: PublicNode (no worldchain subdomain yet), Grove/Pocket public LB (needs app id), Alchemy paid tier (branded as `/public` but the same host serves both). Every provider live-verified with 4 consecutive keyless probes at launch.
Methodology
World Chain: 3 free public RPC endpoints answering `eth_getBlockByNumber` every 60 seconds from us-east, eu-west and Singapore, ranked by 24h median. World Chain leads at 75 ms; the chain-official endpoint measures 75 ms. We measure the round-trip latency of a single, identical JSON-RPC call (`eth_getBlockByNumber(\"latest\", false)`) against every no-key public World 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 World Chain-scaled staleness gap (25 blocks at World Chain's ~2 s block time). The cross-chain view lives on the parent `rpc-capabilities` benchmark; this page is the World Chain-scoped answer with per-region breakdowns as a first-class dimension.
Results: 3 free public World Chain RPC endpoints ranked by p50 latency (24h, 3 regions)
| № | Providers | p50 | p90 | p99 | Success |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | World Chain | 75 ms | 79 ms | 98 ms | 100.00% (n=4330) |
| 2 | Tenderly Gateway | 124 ms | 131 ms | 143 ms | 100.00% (n=4328) |
| 3 | dRPC | 250 ms | 972 ms | 1.28 s | 84.35% (n=4328) |
Public World Chain RPC endpoints measured
Chain ID 480, currency ETH. 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.
World Chainhttps://worldchain-mainnet.g.alchemy.com/public75 ms100.0%
Tenderly Gatewayhttps://worldchain-mainnet.gateway.tenderly.co124 ms100.0%
dRPChttps://worldchain.drpc.org250 ms84.4%
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.
Frequently asked
Which World Chain RPCs work without an API key?
3 endpoints are probed on this chain; each is listed with its URL, 24h median and success rate in the endpoints table on this page, and the list changes as providers come and go.
How is World Chain RPC latency measured here, technically?
One identical `eth_getBlockByNumber("latest", false)` POST every 60 seconds against each provider from each of 3 regions, using the same plain HTTP client the rest of the RPC cluster uses. Wall-clock round-trip is recorded at millisecond precision; p50/p90/p99 are computed via Prometheus `quantile_over_time` over 24 hours. Responses are classified (`ok` / `http_err` / `jsonrpc_err` / `stale` / `timeout`) so an endpoint stuck on an old head or returning errors behind HTTP 200 is never ranked as fastest.
Source code github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/rpc-capabilities