Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 6 more
BlockchainsBase
Trails1.94 s
- p99
- 2.98 s
- rank
- #5
- samples
- 42,573
Robinhood Chain
Leads88 ms
- p99
- 198 ms
- rank
- #1
- samples
- 822,413
Block time
Basen/aRobinhood Chainn/a
Base vs Robinhood Chain
Split decision: Base leads on Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains ($0.000304 vs $0.00100) and Bridged TVL by chain ($7.80B vs $1.82B); Robinhood Chain leads on Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 6 more (88 ms vs 1.94 s) and Fastest Chainlink CCIP source chain by end-to-end delivery latency (17.3 min vs 20.2 min). Data as of 2026-10-24 UTC.
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.
Robinhood Chain
Robinhood is a US commission-free investing app with 25M+ funded accounts. It added crypto trading in 2018, launched its own L2 chain (Robinhood Chain) in 2025, and is the #1 most-reviewed financial app on the US App Store with nearly 5 million ratings.
Side by side measurements
Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains
BlockchainsBase
Leads$0.000304
- p99
- $0.00303
- rank
- #4
- samples
- 20,160
Robinhood Chain
Trails$0.00100
- p99
- $0.00105
- rank
- #11
- samples
- 20,160
Native transfer fee USD
Basen/aRobinhood Chainn/a
Fastest Chainlink CCIP source chain by end-to-end delivery latency
BridgesBase
Trails20.2 min
- p99
- 36.4 min
- rank
- #11
- samples
- 273
Robinhood Chain
Leads17.3 min
- rank
- #8
- samples
- 13provisional
CCIP delivery
Basen/aRobinhood Chainn/a
Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery
BridgesBase
Trails36.68 s
- p99
- 2.7 min
- rank
- #7
- samples
- 1,381
Robinhood Chain
Leads14.36 s
- p99
- 1.7 min
- rank
- #2
- samples
- 1,229
LayerZero delivery
Basen/aRobinhood Chainn/a
Bridged TVL by chain: how much of a chain's capital came from somewhere else
Blockchains| Provider | Bridged TVL | Bridged share | 7d change | 7d vs peers | Native | Canonical | External |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base | $7.80B | 52.1% | - | 0.16% | $7.18B | $2.75B | $5.05B |
| Robinhood Chain | $1.82B | 79.7% | - | - | $464.95M | $639.58M | $1.18B |
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Basen/aRobinhood Chainn/a
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.
Stablecoin flow by chain: where dollars actually moved over 30 days
Blockchains| Provider | Net stablecoin flow (30d) | 30d change | Stablecoin float | Net 7d | 7d change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base | $122.68M | 2.47% | $5.09B | - | - |
| Robinhood Chain | $1.40M | 0.13% | $1.08B | - | - |
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Basen/aRobinhood Chainn/a
Stablecoin float is where dollars are parked, not what they do. A chain can take in a billion that sits idle, and lose float to a single issuer redeeming. The figure is DefiLlama's chain-wide pegged-USD aggregate, every issuer combined; it does not separate a bridge inflow from a native mint, and a dollar bridged to an L2 counts on both chains, so rows are not additive. Read the net dollars with the percentage beside them: the same $400M is a rounding error on Ethereum and a doubling elsewhere.
Frequently asked questions
Base vs Robinhood Chain: which one is better?
Base and Robinhood Chain are compared on 6 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Base leads on Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains. Robinhood Chain leads on Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 6 more. See the live table on this page for every metric.
Which is cheaper, Base or Robinhood Chain?
On the Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains benchmark, Base leads at $0.000304 versus Robinhood Chain at $0.00100. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
Which is faster, Base or Robinhood Chain?
On the Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 6 more benchmark, Robinhood Chain leads at 88 ms versus Base at 1.94 s. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
How is the Base vs Robinhood Chain 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
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