Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain
BlockchainsBNB
Trails0.73 s
- p99
- 1.0 s
- rank
- #3
- samples
- 189,709
Sui
Leads0.23 s
- p99
- 0.28 s
- rank
- —
- samples
- 58,936
Finality time
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BNB vs Sui
BNB leads on 1 of 3 shared benchmarks, Sui on 2. BNB wins on Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains ($0.000819 vs $0.00718). Sui wins on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain (0.23 s vs 0.73 s), Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency (2.96 s vs 3.90 s). Data as of 2026-10-25 UTC.
BNB
Proof-of-Staked-Authority L1 with 21 active validators rotating per epoch. Probabilistic finality reached after roughly 2 blocks. Block time around 3 seconds.
Sui
Move-based L1 using Mysticeti BFT consensus over a DAG. Owned-object transactions bypass consensus via Fast Path. Deterministic finality under one second.
Side by side measurements
Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains
BlockchainsBNB
Leads$0.000819
- p99
- $0.00880
- rank
- #10
- samples
- 20,160
Sui
Trails$0.00718
- p99
- $0.00733
- rank
- #15
- samples
- 20,160
Native transfer fee USD
BNBn/aSuin/a
Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency
BridgesBNB
Trails3.90 s
- p99
- 13.30 s
- rank
- #5
- samples
- 1,056
Sui
Leads2.96 s
- p99
- 9.21 s
- rank
- #1
- samples
- 142
VAA finalization
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Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery
BridgesBNB
Trails15.82 s
- p99
- 1.8 min
- rank
- #3
- samples
- 3,137
Sui
No data in window
LayerZero delivery
BNBn/aSuin/a
Stablecoin flow by chain: where dollars actually moved over 30 days
Blockchains| Provider | 30d change | Stablecoin float | Net 7d | 7d change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BNB | - | $14.31B | - | - |
| Sui | - | $444.02M | - | - |
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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
BNB vs Sui: which one is better?
BNB and Sui are compared on 5 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. BNB leads on Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains. Sui leads on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain. See the live table on this page for every metric.
Which is cheaper, BNB or Sui?
On the Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains benchmark, BNB leads at $0.000819 versus Sui at $0.00718. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
Which is faster, BNB or Sui?
On the Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain benchmark, Sui leads at 0.23 s versus BNB at 0.73 s. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
How is the BNB vs Sui 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.