Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency
BridgesLinea
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Unichain
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VAA finalization
Linean/aUnichainn/a
Linea vs Unichain
Split decision: Linea leads on Bridged TVL by chain ($376.26M vs $93.49M); Unichain leads on Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery (42.86 s vs 3.3 min). Data as of 2026-10-05 UTC.
Linea
ConsenSys zkEVM rollup with a prover-bound block cadence. Idle periods batch into longer intervals (p50 around 3-6 s) while busy periods produce blocks closer to the nominal 2 s mark.
Side by side measurements
Fastest Chainlink CCIP source chain by end-to-end delivery latency
BridgesLinea
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CCIP delivery
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Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery
BridgesLinea
Trails3.3 min
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- #15
- samples
- 30provisional
Unichain
Leads42.86 s
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- #7
- samples
- 22provisional
LayerZero delivery
Linean/aUnichainn/a
Bridged TVL by chain: how much of a chain's capital came from somewhere else
Blockchains| Provider | Bridged TVL | Bridged share | 7d change | 7d vs peers | Native | Canonical | External |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linea | $376.26M | 99.6% | 0.40% | - | $1.65M | $130.54M | $245.72M |
| Unichain | $93.49M | 100.0% | 2.29% | 1.19% | - | $44.83M | $48.67M |
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Linean/aUnichainn/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.
Frequently asked questions
Linea vs Unichain: which one is better?
Linea and Unichain are compared on 4 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Linea leads on Bridged TVL by chain. Unichain leads on Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery. See the live table on this page for every metric.
Which has the higher bridged tvl, Linea or Unichain?
On the Bridged TVL by chain benchmark, Linea leads at $376.26M versus Unichain at $93.49M. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
Which is faster, Linea or Unichain?
On the Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery benchmark, Unichain leads at 42.86 s (provisional) versus Linea at 3.3 min (provisional). Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
How is the Linea vs Unichain 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.