Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain
BlockchainsBitcoin
Trails46.0 min
- p99
- 110.5 min
- rank
- #10
- samples
- 167
Ethereum
Leads15.9 min
- p99
- 19.0 min
- rank
- #7
- samples
- 2,880
Finality time
Bitcoinn/aEthereumn/a
Bitcoin vs Ethereum
Ethereum leads on both live benchmarks. Ethereum wins on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain (15.9 min vs 46.0 min), Chainlink vs Pyth vs Binance vs Coinbase, live oracle deviation (0.13% vs 0.14%). Data as of 2026-10-23 UTC.
Ethereum
PoS chain using Gasper (Casper FFG plus LMD-GHOST). 12-second slots with deterministic finality every two epochs, roughly 12.8 minutes.
Side by side measurements
Chainlink vs Pyth vs Binance vs Coinbase, live oracle deviation
TradingBitcoin
Trails0.14 %
- p99
- 0.16%
- rank
- #8
- samples
- 8,640
Ethereum
Leads0.13 %
- p99
- 0.17%
- rank
- #7
- samples
- 8,640
Max cross-oracle deviation
Bitcoinn/aEthereumn/a
Three caveats. (1) Lower is better, but a non-zero floor (~5-20 bps) is normal, ticker last-traded prices have micro-jitter and Chainlink updates only on deviation/heartbeat. (2) XRP, ADA, DOGE measured on 3 sources because Chainlink deprecated those USD feeds on Ethereum mainnet, tag flags it. (3) POL/USD is the post-migration symbol for MATIC; we point at POLUSDT (not the frozen legacy MATICUSDT).
Frequently asked questions
Bitcoin vs Ethereum: which one is better?
Bitcoin and Ethereum are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Ethereum leads on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain. See the live table on this page for every metric.
Which is faster, Bitcoin or Ethereum?
On the Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain benchmark, Ethereum leads at 15.9 min versus Bitcoin at 46.0 min. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
How is the Bitcoin vs Ethereum 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.
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.