Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency
BridgesEthereum
Leads14.4 min
- p99
- 19.9 min
- rank
- #10
- samples
- 695
Optimism
Trails17.5 min
- p99
- 19.9 min
- rank
- #12
- samples
- 1
Ethereum vs Optimism
Ethereum leads on 3 of 5 shared benchmarks, Optimism on 2. Ethereum wins on Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency (14.4 min vs 17.5 min), Fastest Chainlink CCIP source chain by end-to-end delivery latency (17.1 min vs 18.8 min), Fastest Axelar GMP source chain by end-to-end delivery (16.9 min vs 25.0 min). Optimism wins on Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery (1.4 min vs 4.1 min), Fastest Hyperlane source chain by end-to-end message delivery (23.54 s vs 4.0 min).
Ethereum
PoS chain using Gasper (Casper FFG plus LMD-GHOST). 12-second slots with deterministic finality every two epochs, roughly 12.8 minutes.
Optimism
Optimistic rollup and the canonical OP Stack reference implementation. 2-second sequencer block time, 7-day fraud-proof window, anchored to Ethereum L1 via batch submissions to the Optimism Portal.
Side by side measurements
Fastest Chainlink CCIP source chain by end-to-end delivery latency
BridgesEthereum
Leads17.1 min
- p99
- 37.2 min
- rank
- #7
- samples
- 328
Optimism
Trails18.8 min
- p99
- 29.8 min
- rank
- #9
- samples
- 5
Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery
BridgesEthereum
Trails4.1 min
- p99
- 30.3 min
- rank
- #17
- samples
- 2,159
Optimism
Leads1.4 min
- p99
- 27.5 min
- rank
- #13
- samples
- 601
Fastest Hyperlane source chain by end-to-end message delivery
BridgesEthereum
Trails4.0 min
- p99
- 5.0 min
- rank
- #13
- samples
- 649
Optimism
Leads23.54 s
- p99
- 57.55 s
- rank
- #10
- samples
- 229
Fastest Axelar GMP source chain by end-to-end delivery
BridgesEthereum
Leads16.9 min
- p99
- 20.0 min
- rank
- #6
- samples
- 166
Optimism
Trails25.0 min
- p99
- 29.9 min
- rank
- #9
- samples
- 6
Frequently asked questions
Ethereum vs Optimism: which one is better?
Ethereum and Optimism are compared on 5 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Ethereum leads on Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency. Optimism leads on Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery. See the live table on this page for every metric.
Which is faster on fastest wormhole vaa finalization by source chain, live latency, Ethereum or Optimism?
On the Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency benchmark, Ethereum leads at 14.4 min versus Optimism at 17.5 min. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
Which is faster on fastest layerzero source chain by end-to-end message delivery, Ethereum or Optimism?
On the Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery benchmark, Optimism leads at 1.4 min versus Ethereum at 4.1 min. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
How is the Ethereum vs Optimism 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
A pair is published when all four conditions hold. Both providers run in the same OpenChainBench benchmark for at least seven consecutive days. Each provider has at least 1000 samples in the measurement window. The head to head query has observable third party search demand. Both providers have a public /products/[slug] page on OCB. The full pair ledger is versioned in the public repo so the methodology is externally verifiable.