OpenChainBench

Base vs Linea

Base leads on all 4 live benchmarks. Base wins on Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 7 more (1.95 s vs 7.43 s), Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains ($0.000324 vs $0.0230), Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery (1.0 min vs 4.2 min), Bridged TVL by chain ($8.13B vs $346.36M). Data as of 2026-10-11 UTC.

Read methodology Last measured Window: rolling 24h7 shared benchmarks, 4 measured on both sides
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Base

Coinbase-operated optimistic rollup on the OP Stack. 2-second sequencer block time, shared bridge with Optimism via the OP Superchain, fastest-growing L2 by TVL since 2024.

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Linea

ConsenSys zkEVM rollup with a prover-bound block cadence. Idle periods batch into longer intervals (p50 around 3-6 s) while busy periods produce blocks closer to the nominal 2 s mark.

Side by side measurements

Bridged TVL by chain: how much of a chain's capital came from somewhere else

Blockchains
ProviderBridged TVLBridged share7d change7d vs peersNativeCanonicalExternal
Base$8.13B51.6%--$7.62B$2.90B$5.22B
Linea$346.36M99.6%--$1.50M$116.34M$229.25M
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Bridged TVL is value secured by the chain's bridge, not value locked in its DeFi protocols; a chain can rank high on one and low on the other. The split is L2Beat's: canonical is escrowed on the host chain by the chain's own contracts, external came through a third-party bridge, native was minted here. Rows are the chains L2Beat tracks in its scaling summary; a settled L1 has no row by construction, not by omission. Size is not quality: a large balance says capital came, not that it stayed.

Frequently asked questions

Base vs Linea: which one is better?

Base and Linea are compared on 7 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Base leads on Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 7 more. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster, Base or Linea?

On the Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 7 more benchmark, Base leads at 1.95 s versus Linea at 7.43 s. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Base vs Linea 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.

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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.

Live data refreshes via ISR within 60 seconds of a new run. Sources are the same Prometheus queries surfaced on the parent benchmark pages.