EVM Chain Block Times and RPC Limits, Measured

Published block times drift from reality: on the day we started measuring, 9 of the chain descriptions in our own catalogue were off by more than 2x (Cronos said 5–6 seconds and measured 0.42). This table is what the chains actually do, measured every week through a live RPC endpoint rather than copied from documentation.

Sorted fastest first. Each chain links to its page, where the same facts sit next to live status. Last measured 2026-10-11. Download: JSON.

ChainChain IDBlock timeFinalized tag lageth_getLogs rangeState depth (blocks)
Somnia5031101 msat head1,0001,000,000+
Robinhood Chain4663104 ms8,653 blocks (~15 min)50,000+1,000,000+
Gravity127001234 msat head50,000+1,000,000+
opBNB204250 ms43 blocks (~11 s)10,00064+
Arbitrum42161295 ms4,150 blocks (~20 min)50,000+1,000,000+
Monad143302 msat head1,0001,000,000+
Cronos25419 msat head10,0001,000,000+
BNB Smart Chain56450 msat head5,0001,000,000+
Telos EVM40500 msat head50,000+1,000,000+
Arc5042508 msat head5,0001,000,000+
Tempo4217576 msat head50,000+1,000,000+
Aurora1313161554588 msat head50,000+1,000,000+
Stable988699 msat head10,00064+
ApeChain33139723 ms2,092 blocks (~25 min)50,000+1,000,000+
Moca Chain2288827 msat head10,0001,000,000+
0G16661892 ms20 blocks (~18 s)50,000+10,000+
Hyperliquid999984 msat head1,0001,000,000+
Celo422201 s1,571 blocks (~26 min)5,00010,000+
Unichain1301 s1,569 blocks (~26 min)10,0001,000,000+
Plasma97451 s1 block (~1 s)50,000+1,000,000+
Katana7474741 s1,270 blocks (~21 min)50,000+1,000,000+
Kaia82171 sat head50,000+1,000,000+
WEMIX11111 sat head50,000+1,000,000+
Ink570731 s1,613 blocks (~27 min)50,000+1,000,000+
MegaETH43261 s1,883 blocks (~31 min)50,000+1,000,000+
X Layer1961 s1,257 blocks (~21 min)under 1,0001,000,000+
Pharos16721.02 sat headunder 1,0001,000,000+
Playnance18291.09 stag far behind head50,000+1,000,000+
Flare141.09 sat headunder 1,000under 64
Avalanche431141.18 s5 blocks (~6 s)50,000+under 64
Sonic1461.48 sat head50,000+1,000,000+
Etherlink427931.49 s17 blocks (~25 s)under 1,0001,000,000+
Polygon1371.5 s3 blocks (~5 s)10,0001,000,000+
TAC2391.56 sat head50,000+1,000,000+
Morph28181.92 s680 blocks (~22 min)1,0001,000,000+
Abstract27411.99 stag far behind head50,000+1,000,000+
Base84532 s528 blocks (~18 min)5,0001,000,000+
Optimism102 s564 blocks (~19 min)5,0001,000,000+
Mantle50002 s602 blocks (~20 min)50,000+10,000+
Blast814572 s2,326 blocks (~78 min)50,000+1,000,000+
Berachain800942 s1 block (~2 s)50,000+1,000,000+
Taiko1670002 s877 blocks (~29 min)50,000+1,000,000+
Fraxtal2522 s670 blocks (~22 min)50,000+1,000,000+
Soneium18682 s830 blocks (~28 min)50,000+1,000,000+
Mode344432 s1,385 blocks (~46 min)50,000+1,000,000+
Immutable zkEVM133712 sno finalized tag5,0001,000,000+
Zora77777772 s2,842 blocks (~95 min)50,000+1,000,000+
Boba Network2882 s761 blocks (~25 min)50,000+1,000,000+
BOB608082 s980 blocks (~33 min)50,000+1,000,000+
B2 Network2232 s612 blocks (~20 min)1,0001,000,000+
Doma974772 s644 blocks (~21 min)50,000+1,000,000+
HashKey Chain1772 s804 blocks (~27 min)5,0001,000,000+
Lisk11352 stag far behind head50,000+1,000,000+
Metal L217502 s534 blocks (~18 min)50,000+1,000,000+
Superseed53302 s3,289 blocks (~110 min)50,000+1,000,000+
Tea61222 stag far behind head50,000+1,000,000+
World Chain4802 s695 blocks (~23 min)under 1,0001,000,000+
Orderly2912 s717 blocks (~24 min)50,000+1,000,000+
Ronin20202 s679 blocks (~23 min)under 1,0001,000,000+
BitTorrent Chain1992.06 sno finalized tag1,00064+
Kite23662.22 sat headunder 1,00064+
Viction882.26 sno finalized tag50,000+10,000+
Story15142.36 sat head50,000+64+
IoTeX46892.5 sat head1,00064+
Jovay57349512.86 sat head1,0001,000,000+
Chiliz888883 sno finalized tag50,000+64+
Core11163 s2 blocks (~6 s)5,0001,000,000+
Tron (EVM)7281264283 s17 blocks (~51 s)5,000under 64
ABCore368883 sno finalized tag50,000+1,000,000+
OKT Chain663.8 sno finalized tag1,000under 64
ZetaChain70003.82 sat head10,0001,000,000+
Fantom2503.83 sno finalized tag50,000+1,000,000+
Mezo316123.86 sat head10,0001,000,000+
Merlin Chain42004 s36 blocks (~2 min)1,0001,000,000+
Dymension11004.47 sat head10,00064+
zkSync Era3244.75 stag far behind head50,000+1,000,000+
Gnosis1005.09 s35 blocks (~3 min)5,00064+
Kava22225.7 sat head10,0001,000,000+
XRPL EVM14400005.75 sat head10,0001,000,000+
ADI Network369006.19 s428 blocks (~44 min)10,0001,000,000+
Shibarium1096.29 s14 blocks (~88 s)50,000+1,000,000+
Astar5926.65 s5 blocks (~33 s)1,0001,000,000+
peaq33386.78 s7 blocks (~47 s)50,000+64+
Neo X477638.76 sat head50,000+1,000,000+
Manta Pacific16910 stag far behind head50,000+1,000,000+
PulseChain36910 s73 blocks (~12 min)50,000+64+
Hemi4311112 s122 blocks (~24 min)50,000+1,000,000+
Scroll53435212 s429 blocks (~86 min)50,000+1,000,000+
Ethereum112 s82 blocks (~16 min)50,000+1,000,000+
Ethereum Classic6112 sno finalized tag50,000+under 64
Linea5914414 s512 blocks (~117 min)10,0001,000,000+
Creditcoin10203015 s2 blocks (~30 s)1,0001,000,000+
Beam433721 sat head1,0001,000,000+
Metis108830 stag far behind head50,000+1,000,000+
Filecoin31430 s33 blocks (~17 min)under 1,00064+
Lens Chain23240 stag far behind head50,000+1,000,000+
Gravity Alpha162541 s116 blocks (~79 min)50,000+1,000,000+
Edge33432 min17 blocks (~36 min)under 1,00010,000+
Syscoin573 min13 blocks (~33 min)5,00064+
Cronos zkEVM3883 mintag far behind head50,000+1,000,000+
HAQQ112353 minat head10,00010,000+
Arbitrum Nova421706 min1 block (~6 min)10,00064+
Mova61901488 minno finalized tag1,0001,000,000+

How it is measured

  • Block time: timestamp difference between the head and the block 1,000 below it, divided by 1,000. Chains that only produce blocks under load show long averages; that is what a poller experiences.
  • Finalized tag lag: how many blocks eth_getBlockByNumber("finalized") trails latest. “At head” means the latest block is already reported as finalized; lags over two hours are listed as “far behind” rather than as an exact figure.
  • eth_getLogs range: the largest of 1,000 / 5,000 / 10,000 / 50,000 blocks an address-filtered query was accepted for.
  • State depth: the deepest of 64 / 10,000 / 1,000,000 blocks back at which eth_getBalance still answers. 1,000,000+ is archive depth for practical purposes.

Limits are properties of the nodes serving a chain, not only of the chain, and can differ between the upstream nodes behind one endpoint. For which JSON-RPC methods each chain supports, see the method support matrix.