Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency
BridgesBase
Trails18.3 min
- rank
- #11
- samples
- 52provisional
Unichain
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VAA finalization
Basen/aUnichainn/a
Base vs Unichain
Split decision: Base leads on Bridged TVL by chain ($8.31B vs $93.37M); Unichain leads on Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery (42.69 s vs 54.87 s). Data as of 2026-10-05 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.
Side by side measurements
Fastest Chainlink CCIP source chain by end-to-end delivery latency
BridgesBase
Trails2.7 min
- p99
- 37.2 min
- rank
- #6
- samples
- 522
Unichain
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CCIP delivery
Basen/aUnichainn/a
Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery
BridgesBase
Trails54.87 s
- p99
- 12.4 min
- rank
- #11
- samples
- 1,336
Unichain
Leads42.69 s
- rank
- #7
- samples
- 21provisional
LayerZero delivery
Basen/aUnichainn/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 | $8.31B | 50.9% | 1.10% | 0.70% | $8.01B | $3.12B | $5.19B |
| Unichain | $93.37M | 100.0% | 2.05% | 1.65% | - | $44.70M | $48.68M |
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Basen/aUnichainn/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.
Frequently asked questions
Base vs Unichain: which one is better?
Base and Unichain are compared on 4 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Base leads on Bridged TVL by chain. Unichain leads on Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery. See the live table on this page for every metric.
Which has the higher bridged tvl, Base or Unichain?
On the Bridged TVL by chain benchmark, Base leads at $8.31B versus Unichain at $93.37M. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
Which is faster, Base or Unichain?
On the Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery benchmark, Unichain leads at 42.69 s (provisional) versus Base at 54.87 s. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
How is the Base vs Unichain 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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