Celo vs Polygon

Celo leads on 1 of 4 shared benchmarks, Polygon on 3. Celo wins on Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery (15.00 s vs 1.7 min). Polygon wins on Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency (4.31 s vs 17.5 min), Fastest Axelar GMP source chain by end-to-end delivery (48.75 s vs 25.0 min), Bridged TVL by chain ($3.62B vs $16.51M). Data as of 2026-10-24 UTC.

Read methodology Last measured Window: rolling 24h6 shared benchmarks, 4 measured on both sides

Side by side measurements

Bridged TVL by chain: how much of a chain's capital came from somewhere else

Blockchains
ProviderBridged TVLBridged share7d change7d vs peersNativeCanonicalExternal
Celo$16.51M6.12%-3.09%$253.42M$2.13M$14.39M
Polygon$3.62B95.5%-2.95%$170.36M$2.28B$1.34B
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Celon/aPolygonn/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.

Stablecoin flow by chain: where dollars actually moved over 30 days

Blockchains
Provider30d changeStablecoin floatNet 7d7d change
Celo-$111.27M--
Polygon-$3.31B--
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Celon/aPolygonn/a

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.

Latest value · Net stablecoin flow (30d)Raw JSON

Frequently asked questions

Celo vs Polygon: which one is better?

Celo and Polygon are compared on 6 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Celo leads on Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery. Polygon leads on Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster on layerzero delivery, Celo or Polygon?

On the Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery benchmark, Celo leads at 15.00 s (provisional) versus Polygon at 1.7 min. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is faster on vaa finalization, Celo or Polygon?

On the Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency benchmark, Polygon leads at 4.31 s versus Celo at 17.5 min (provisional). Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Celo vs Polygon 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.

Live data refreshes via ISR within 60 seconds of a new run. Sources are the same Prometheus queries surfaced on the parent benchmark pages.