Polygon vs Unichain

Split decision: Polygon leads on Bridged TVL by chain ($3.90B vs $93.61M); Unichain leads on Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery (37.50 s vs 3.1 min). Data as of 2026-10-06 UTC.

Read methodology Last measured Window: rolling 24h4 shared benchmarks, 2 measured on both sides

Side by side measurements

Bridged TVL by chain: how much of a chain's capital came from somewhere else

Blockchains
ProviderBridged TVLBridged share7d change7d vs peersNativeCanonicalExternal
Polygon$3.90B95.2%0.40%-$197.89M$2.45B$1.44B
Unichain$93.61M100.0%4.65%3.32%-$44.79M$48.82M
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Polygonn/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

Polygon vs Unichain: which one is better?

Polygon and Unichain are compared on 4 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Polygon 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, Polygon or Unichain?

On the Bridged TVL by chain benchmark, Polygon leads at $3.90B versus Unichain at $93.61M. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is faster, Polygon or Unichain?

On the Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery benchmark, Unichain leads at 37.50 s (provisional) versus Polygon at 3.1 min. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Polygon 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.

Live data refreshes via ISR within 60 seconds of a new run. Sources are the same Prometheus queries surfaced on the parent benchmark pages.