Base vs Starknet 2026: 2 live benchmarks compared

Name: Base vs Starknet OpenChainBench measurements
Creator: OpenChainBench
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Base vs Starknet

Base leads on both live benchmarks. Base wins on Bridged TVL by chain ($8.35B vs $384.42M), Stablecoin flow by chain ($224.77M vs $2.26M). Data as of 2026-10-05 UTC.

Read methodology Last measured Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:30:42 UTCWindow: rolling 24h2 shared benchmarks

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.

Starknet

Side by side measurements

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	$8.35B	50.5%	2.73%	-	$8.18B	$3.17B	$5.18B
Starknet	$384.42M	72.9%	18.5%	15.8%	$142.87M	$299.20M	$85.22M

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Basen/aStarknetn/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	$224.77M	4.55%	$5.17B	$123.61M	2.45%
Starknet	$2.26M	1.51%	$151.63M	$4.21M	2.85%

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Basen/aStarknetn/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 Starknet: which one is better?

Base and Starknet are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Base leads on Bridged TVL by chain. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which has the higher bridged tvl, Base or Starknet?

On the Bridged TVL by chain benchmark, Base leads at $8.35B versus Starknet at $384.42M. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Base vs Starknet 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.