Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain
BlockchainsCronos
Leads0.59 s
- p99
- 1.2 s
- rank
- #6
- samples
- 195,928
Internet Computer
Trails0.93 s
- p99
- 1.7 s
- rank
- #8
- samples
- 172,459
Split decision: Cronos leads on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain (0.59 s vs 0.93 s) and Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost per L1 chain ($0.00960 vs $0.6724); Internet Computer leads on Highest staking yield, live net APR by proof-of-stake chain (10.0% vs 3.61%) and Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains ($0.000240 vs $0.000363). Data as of 2026-11-14 UTC.
EVM chain built on the Cosmos SDK with CometBFT consensus, so a committed block is final; part of the Crypto.com ecosystem.
The Internet Computer: subnets of nodes run canister smart contracts and sign state with chain-key cryptography; ICP pays ledger fees and is converted into cycles for compute.
Cronos
Leads0.59 s
Internet Computer
Trails0.93 s
Cronos
Trails3.61 %
Internet Computer
Leads10.0 %
Nominal yield in the staked token, not real yield: a 19% APR on a token that inflates 12% a year is worth less than it looks, and price moves dominate both. MEV is included on Solana only and excluded on Ethereum. ICP is one neuron profile (2 year dissolve delay), Algorand one opt-in solo node, Ethereum one network average. Stellar and Somnia are not ranked, see the methodology.
Cronos
Trails$0.000363
Internet Computer
Leads$0.000240
Cronos
Leads$0.00960
Internet Computer
Trails$0.6724
Cronos and Internet Computer are compared on 4 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Cronos leads on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain. Internet Computer leads on Highest staking yield, live net APR by proof-of-stake chain. See the live table on this page for every metric.
On the Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain benchmark, Cronos leads at 0.59 s versus Internet Computer at 0.93 s. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
On the Highest staking yield, live net APR by proof-of-stake chain benchmark, Internet Computer leads at 10.0% (provisional) versus Cronos at 3.61%. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
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.
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.