Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain
BlockchainsEthereum
Trails15.8 min
- p99
- 19.0 min
- rank
- #14
- samples
- 2,880
Solana
Leads0.40 s
- p99
- 0.75 s
- rank
- #5
- samples
- 402,337
Ethereum leads on 1 of 8 shared benchmarks, Solana on 7. Ethereum wins on Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost per L1 chain ($0.0539 vs $0.5940). Solana wins on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain (0.40 s vs 15.8 min), Chainlink vs Pyth vs Binance vs Coinbase, live oracle deviation (0.14% vs 0.15%), Highest staking yield, live net APR by proof-of-stake chain (4.79% vs 2.50%), Cheapest blockchain transaction fee, live across L1 and L2 chains ($0.000446 vs $0.00238). Data as of 2026-11-08 UTC.
PoS chain using Gasper (Casper FFG plus LMD-GHOST). 12-second slots with deterministic finality every two epochs, roughly 12.8 minutes.
Proof-of-History sequencing combined with Tower BFT consensus. Probabilistic finality at 32 confirmed slots. Slot time around 400 milliseconds.
Ethereum
Trails15.8 min
Solana
Leads0.40 s
Ethereum
Trails0.15 %
Solana
Leads0.14 %
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).
Ethereum
Trails2.50 %
Solana
Leads4.79 %
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.
Ethereum
Trails$0.00238
Solana
Leads$0.000446
Ethereum
Leads$0.0539
Solana
Trails$0.5940
Ethereum
Trails16.0 min
Solana
Leads3.46 s
Ethereum
Trails16.3 min
Solana
Leads52.14 s
Ethereum
Trails3.6 min
Solana
Leads12.15 s
| Provider | 30d change | Stablecoin float | Net 7d | 7d change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethereum | - | $135.72B | - | - |
| Solana | - | $14.85B | - | - |
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.
Ethereum and Solana are compared on 9 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Ethereum leads on Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost per L1 chain. Solana leads on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain. See the live table on this page for every metric.
On the Cheapest blockchain to deploy a token, live USD cost per L1 chain benchmark, Ethereum leads at $0.0539 versus Solana at $0.5940. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
On the Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live wall-clock measurement per chain benchmark, Solana leads at 0.40 s versus Ethereum at 15.8 min. 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.