Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency
BridgesMonad
Trails3.83 s
- rank
- #4
- samples
- 33provisional
Optimism
No data in window
VAA finalization
Monadn/aOptimismn/a
Monad vs Optimism
Monad leads on both live benchmarks. Monad wins on Fastest Chainlink CCIP source chain by end-to-end delivery latency (46.03 s vs 17.5 min), Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery (48.46 s vs 1.5 min). Data as of 2026-10-24 UTC.
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
BridgesMonad
Leads46.03 s
- rank
- #4
- samples
- 31provisional
Optimism
Trails17.5 min
- rank
- #9
- samples
- 12provisional
CCIP delivery
Monadn/aOptimismn/a
Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery
BridgesMonad
Leads48.46 s
- rank
- #9
- samples
- 32provisional
Optimism
Trails1.5 min
- p99
- 38.0 min
- rank
- #12
- samples
- 365
LayerZero delivery
Monadn/aOptimismn/a
Stablecoin flow by chain: where dollars actually moved over 30 days
Blockchains| Provider | 30d change | Stablecoin float | Net 7d | 7d change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monad | - | $690.41M | - | - |
| Optimism | - | $439.37M | - | - |
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Monadn/aOptimismn/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.
Frequently asked questions
Monad vs Optimism: which one is better?
Monad and Optimism are compared on 4 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Monad leads on Fastest Chainlink CCIP source chain by end-to-end delivery latency. See the live table on this page for every metric.
Which is faster, Monad or Optimism?
On the Fastest Chainlink CCIP source chain by end-to-end delivery latency benchmark, Monad leads at 46.03 s (provisional) versus Optimism at 17.5 min (provisional). Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
How is the Monad 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.
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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.