Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain
BlockchainsAvalanche
Leads6.2 s
- p99
- 8.6 s
- rank
- #4
- samples
- 69,471
Bitcoin
Trails47.0 min
- p99
- 86.0 min
- rank
- #10
- samples
- 173
Finality time
Avalanchen/aBitcoinn/a
Avalanche vs Bitcoin
Avalanche leads on both live benchmarks. Avalanche wins on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain (6.2 s vs 47.0 min), Chainlink vs Pyth vs Binance vs Coinbase, live oracle deviation (0.018% vs 0.019%). Data as of 2026-10-05 UTC.
Avalanche
Primary Network runs the Snowman BFT consensus derived from Snow protocols. Sub-second deterministic finality with no chain reorganizations.
Side by side measurements
Chainlink vs Pyth vs Binance vs Coinbase, live oracle deviation
TradingAvalanche
Leads0.018 %
- p99
- 0.090%
- rank
- #3
- samples
- 11,520
Bitcoin
Trails0.019 %
- p99
- 0.046%
- rank
- #4
- samples
- 11,520
Max cross-oracle deviation
Avalanchen/aBitcoinn/a
Three caveats. (1) Lower is better, but a non-zero floor (~5-20 bps) is normal, ticker last-traded prices have micro-jitter and Chainlink updates only on deviation/heartbeat. (2) XRP, ADA, DOGE measured on 3 sources because Chainlink deprecated those USD feeds on Ethereum mainnet, tag flags it. (3) POL/USD is the post-migration symbol for MATIC; we point at POLUSDT (not the frozen legacy MATICUSDT).
Frequently asked questions
Avalanche vs Bitcoin: which one is better?
Avalanche and Bitcoin are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Avalanche leads on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain. See the live table on this page for every metric.
Which is faster, Avalanche or Bitcoin?
On the Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain benchmark, Avalanche leads at 6.2 s versus Bitcoin at 47.0 min. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
How is the Avalanche vs Bitcoin comparison measured?
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.
How this pair was selected
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.