Base vs Zksync

Side by side OpenChainBench measurements. Identical layout, no editorial verdict, the live data leads. Each panel surfaces the aggregate plus the chain and region breakdowns when the underlying bench exposes them, straight from the Prometheus queries that drive the parent benchmark pages.

Read methodology Last measured Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:45:13 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.

Zksync

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

Fastest L2 block time, live across Arbitrum, Base, Optimism and 6 more

Blockchains

Base

Leads

1.96 s

p99: 2.98 s
rank: #4
samples: 41,338

Zksync

Trails

2.50 s

p99: 49.23 s
rank: #6
samples: 14,906

Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across 20 L1 and L2 chains

Blockchains

Base

Leads

$0.000212

p99: $0.00532
rank: #7

Zksync

Trails

$0.00148

p99: $0.00151
rank: #13

How this pair was selected

A pair is published when all four conditions hold. Both providers run in the same OpenChainBench benchmark for at least seven consecutive days. Each provider has at least 1000 samples in the measurement window. The head to head query has observable third party search demand. Both providers have a public /products/[slug] page on OCB. The full pair ledger is versioned in the public repo so the methodology is externally verifiable.