Fastest free World Chain RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint 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 leads rpc latency at 5 ms (p50, 24h) on Fastest free World Chain RPC, live no-key EVM endpoint latency. Source: OpenChainBench, https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/world-chain-rpc.
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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
Per-chain member of the RPC latency cluster, extended to World Chain. 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 at launch, 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.
Frequently asked
What is the fastest free World Chain RPC right now?
World Chain currently leads at 5 ms (`eth_getBlockByNumber("latest", false)` p50 over the last 24h), measured against 3 no-key providers probed every 60 seconds from us-east, eu-west and Singapore. The leaderboard re-sorts continuously against fresh Prometheus samples, so the answer on this page is the answer right now, not a quarterly snapshot. Use the region tabs to see the leader from the origin closest to your deployment.
Which World Chain RPCs work without an API key?
4 endpoints sustain continuous keyless probing at launch: World Chain, dRPC, Tenderly Gateway. Every listed endpoint was live-verified with a `eth_getBlockByNumber("latest", false)` POST returning a parsable response before inclusion. See the methodology section for the specific endpoints that were audited and excluded.
Does the fastest World Chain RPC change by region?
Often. Public infra concentrates in specific regions; a gateway that wins from Amsterdam can lose from Singapore by multiples. The region tabs at the top of the page re-scope every number to a single origin; pick the one closest to where your requests originate.
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