Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain
BlockchainsBitcoin
Trails48.5 min
- p99
- 86.0 min
- rank
- #10
- samples
- 170
Solana
Leads8.4 s
- p99
- 10 s
- rank
- #5
- samples
- 2,880
Finality time
Bitcoinn/aSolanan/a
Bitcoin vs Solana
Solana leads on both live benchmarks. Solana wins on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain (8.4 s vs 48.5 min), Chainlink vs Pyth vs Binance vs Coinbase, live oracle deviation (0.017% vs 0.018%). Data as of 2026-10-05 UTC.
Solana
Proof-of-History sequencing combined with Tower BFT consensus. Probabilistic finality at 32 confirmed slots. Slot time around 400 milliseconds.
Side by side measurements
Chainlink vs Pyth vs Binance vs Coinbase, live oracle deviation
TradingBitcoin
Trails0.018 %
- p99
- 0.046%
- rank
- #4
- samples
- 11,520
Solana
Leads0.017 %
- p99
- 0.058%
- rank
- #3
- samples
- 11,520
Max cross-oracle deviation
Bitcoinn/aSolanan/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 Solana: which one is better?
Bitcoin and Solana are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Solana 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 Solana?
On the Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain benchmark, Solana leads at 8.4 s versus Bitcoin at 48.5 min. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
How is the Bitcoin vs Solana 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.