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Optimism Benchmark

Optimism is measured across 9 live OpenChainBench benchmarks: Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 7 more (ranks #4 of 10, 1.93 s p50), Fastest free Optimism RPC, live no-key endpoint latency (ranks #5 of 5, 333 ms p50), Fastest Axelar GMP source chain by end-to-end delivery (ranks #9 of 10, 25.0 min p50), Fastest Chainlink CCIP source chain by end-to-end delivery latency (ranks #9 of 14, 18.8 min p50).

9 benchmarks

Related Optimism products: optimism-official

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.

Last measured

Live benchmark results

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    RPCs

    Most reliable free public RPC, correctness incidents across 7 EVM chains

    Reliability incidents

    data warming up

  2. #4of 10

    Blockchains

    Fastest L2 block time, live across Robinhood, Arbitrum, Base and 7 more

    Block time

    1.93 s

    p50 · 24h

  3. #5of 5

    RPCs

    Fastest free Optimism RPC, live no-key endpoint latency

    RPC latency

    333 ms

    p50 · 24h

  4. #9of 10

    Bridges

    Fastest Axelar GMP source chain by end-to-end delivery

    Axelar GMP delivery

    25.0 min

    p50 · 24h

  5. #9of 14

    Bridges

    Fastest Chainlink CCIP source chain by end-to-end delivery latency

    CCIP delivery

    18.8 min

    p50 · 24h

  6. #10of 13

    Bridges

    Fastest Hyperlane source chain by end-to-end message delivery

    Hyperlane delivery

    23.57 s

    p50 · 24h

  7. #11of 12

    RPCs

    Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (plus Solana and Polkadot)

    RPC latency

    #5 on Optimism

    333 ms

    p50 · 24h

  8. #13of 17

    Bridges

    Fastest LayerZero source chain by end-to-end message delivery

    LayerZero delivery

    1.3 min

    p50 · 24h

  9. #13of 14

    Bridges

    Fastest Wormhole VAA finalization by source chain, live latency

    VAA finalization

    17.5 min

    p50 · 24h

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