Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 6 more
BlockchainsBase
Leads192 ms
- p99
- 494 ms
- rank
- #2
- samples
- 427,518
zkSync Era
Trails2.57 s
- p99
- 45.10 s
- rank
- #8
- samples
- 15,470
Block time
Basen/azkSync Eran/a
Base vs zkSync Era
Base leads on all 3 live benchmarks. Base wins on Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 6 more (192 ms vs 2.57 s), Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains ($0.000289 vs $0.00202), Bridged TVL by chain ($7.62B vs $113.53M). Data as of 2026-11-09 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.
zkSync Era
Matter Labs' zk-rollup with the ZK Stack reference implementation and a custom LLVM-based VM (EraVM). Batched producer with variable block cadence (p50 ~3-6 s) tied to proof generation rather than fixed sequencer intervals.
Side by side measurements
Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains
BlockchainsBase
Leads$0.000289
- p99
- $0.00617
- rank
- #11
- samples
- 20,160
zkSync Era
Trails$0.00202
- p99
- $0.00212
- rank
- #22
- samples
- 20,160
Native transfer fee USD
Basen/azkSync Eran/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 | $7.62B | 54.7% | - | - | $6.32B | $2.65B | $4.97B |
| zkSync Era | $113.53M | 52.8% | - | - | $101.19M | $101.30M | $11.95M |
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Basen/azkSync Eran/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 zkSync Era: which one is better?
Base and zkSync Era are compared on 3 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Base 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 faster, Base or zkSync Era?
On the Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 6 more benchmark, Base leads at 192 ms versus zkSync Era at 2.57 s. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
How is the Base vs zkSync Era 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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