Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain
BlockchainsAlgorand
Trails2.8 s
- p99
- 2.9 s
- rank
- #11
- samples
- 31,114
Cronos
Leads0.59 s
- p99
- 1.2 s
- rank
- #6
- samples
- 196,416
Algorand leads on 3 of 4 shared benchmarks, Cronos on 1. Algorand wins on Highest staking yield, live net APR by proof-of-stake chain (4.60% vs 3.61%), Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains ($0.0000830 vs $0.000363), Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost per L1 chain ($0.00838 vs $0.00959). Cronos wins on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain (0.59 s vs 2.8 s). Data as of 2026-11-14 UTC.
Pure proof-of-stake L1 where a randomly selected committee agrees on each block, so a block is final as soon as it is committed, with rounds of roughly 3 seconds.
EVM chain built on the Cosmos SDK with CometBFT consensus, so a committed block is final; part of the Crypto.com ecosystem.
Algorand
Trails2.8 s
Cronos
Leads0.59 s
Algorand
Leads4.60 %
Cronos
Trails3.61 %
Nominal yield in the staked token, not real yield: a 19% APR on a token that inflates 12% a year is worth less than it looks, and price moves dominate both. MEV is included on Solana only and excluded on Ethereum. ICP is one neuron profile (2 year dissolve delay), Algorand one opt-in solo node, Ethereum one network average. Stellar and Somnia are not ranked, see the methodology.
Algorand
Leads$0.0000830
Cronos
Trails$0.000363
Algorand
Leads$0.00838
Cronos
Trails$0.00959
Algorand and Cronos are compared on 4 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Algorand leads on Highest staking yield, live net APR by proof-of-stake chain. Cronos leads on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain. See the live table on this page for every metric.
On the Highest staking yield, live net APR by proof-of-stake chain benchmark, Algorand leads at 4.60% (provisional) versus Cronos at 3.61%. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
On the Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain benchmark, Cronos leads at 0.59 s versus Algorand at 2.8 s. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
Every benchmark on this page uses the same open methodology, published at https://openchainbench.com/methodology. Data is CC-BY-4.0. Measurement harnesses are MIT-licensed.
Auto-generated pairs require: both providers in the same benchmark for seven consecutive days, at least 1000 samples per provider, observable third-party search demand, and a public /products/[slug] page on OCB. Editorially curated pairs (like this one) may publish early when search demand is high and data is accruing; panels with fewer than 100 samples are shown as provisional. The full pair ledger is versioned in the public repo.