Datasets:
license: cc-by-4.0
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.20800311
language:
- en
language_creators:
- machine-generated
annotations_creators:
- machine-generated
multilinguality:
- monolingual
pretty_name: OpenChainBench Crypto Infrastructure Benchmarks
viewer: true
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- time-series-forecasting
- tabular-regression
- other
task_ids:
- univariate-time-series-forecasting
tags:
- crypto
- blockchain
- benchmarks
- rpc
- oracles
- bridges
- polymarket
- infrastructure
- latency
- finance
- defi
- solana
- ethereum
- hyperliquid
- mev
- observability
- sla
- mlcroissant
- tabular
- timeseries
- monitoring
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
- 100K<n<1M
configs:
- config_name: headlines
data_files:
- split: train
path: headlines/**/*.parquet
- config_name: providers
data_files:
- split: train
path: providers/**/*.parquet
- config_name: timeseries
data_files:
- split: train
path: timeseries/**/*.parquet
- config_name: chain_leaders
data_files:
- split: train
path: chain_leaders/**/*.parquet
dataset_info:
- config_name: headlines
features:
- name: snapshot_date
dtype: string
- name: captured_at
dtype: string
- name: slug
dtype: string
- name: title
dtype: string
- name: category
dtype: string
- name: metric
dtype: string
- name: unit
dtype: string
- name: status
dtype: string
- name: value
dtype: float64
- name: higher_is_better
dtype: bool
- name: leader_name
dtype: string
- name: leader_slug
dtype: string
- name: leader_value
dtype: float64
- name: bench_sample_size
dtype: float64
- name: as_of
dtype: string
- name: citation_url
dtype: string
- name: stat_api_url
dtype: string
- name: source_url
dtype: string
- name: license
dtype: string
- name: schema_version
dtype: int64
splits:
- name: train
- config_name: providers
features:
- name: snapshot_date
dtype: string
- name: captured_at
dtype: string
- name: bench_slug
dtype: string
- name: provider_name
dtype: string
- name: provider_slug
dtype: string
- name: provider_type
dtype: string
- name: provider_layer
dtype: string
- name: provider_tag
dtype: string
- name: p50
dtype: float64
- name: p90
dtype: float64
- name: p99
dtype: float64
- name: mean
dtype: float64
- name: success_rate
dtype: float64
- name: provider_sample_size
dtype: float64
- name: is_leader
dtype: bool
- name: schema_version
dtype: int64
splits:
- name: train
- config_name: timeseries
features:
- name: snapshot_date
dtype: string
- name: captured_at
dtype: string
- name: bench_slug
dtype: string
- name: provider_slug
dtype: string
- name: point_index
dtype: int64
- name: value
dtype: float64
- name: window
dtype: string
- name: schema_version
dtype: int64
splits:
- name: train
- config_name: chain_leaders
features:
- name: snapshot_date
dtype: string
- name: captured_at
dtype: string
- name: bench_slug
dtype: string
- name: chain
dtype: string
- name: leader_name
dtype: string
- name: leader_slug
dtype: string
- name: leader_value
dtype: float64
- name: worst_name
dtype: string
- name: worst_slug
dtype: string
- name: worst_value
dtype: float64
- name: schema_version
dtype: int64
splits:
- name: train
OpenChainBench Crypto Infrastructure Benchmarks
Daily snapshots of every public benchmark on openchainbench.com, released as Hive-partitioned Parquet under CC-BY-4.0.
OCB measures latency, cost, coverage and accuracy of crypto infrastructure (RPCs, oracles, bridges, data APIs, Polymarket adapters, Hyperliquid builders). Every snapshot here mirrors the /api/citable, /api/stat/<slug>, and /api/series/<slug> JSON feeds at the time of capture.
Latest snapshot: 2026-06-24 (captured at 2026-06-24T13:59:50+00:00, schema v2).
Dataset Description
Dataset Summary
OpenChainBench publishes reproducible, daily-refreshed performance
benchmarks for crypto infrastructure providers. Each benchmark answers
one operational question (for example, "which RPC has the lowest p50
latency for eth_getBlockByNumber on Ethereum?") and reports it as a
ranked leaderboard with p50 / p90 / p99 percentiles, success rate, and
per-provider sample sizes. This dataset is a frozen, ML-friendly
projection of that live data, partitioned by snapshot_date so the
full history is queryable from a single Parquet scan.
Use cases the dataset supports:
- Time-series forecasting of provider latency / cost / success rate.
- Tabular regression over provider attributes (type, layer, sample size).
- Reproducibility for citations made on the live site (each row carries
the same
citation_urlyou would link to in a paper or blog post). - Anomaly detection on infrastructure trajectories across the industry-wide registry.
- Powering AI agents that need an authoritative, citable answer to "who leads on metric X today?"
Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
time-series-forecasting: each(bench_slug, provider_slug, window)tuple in thetimeseriesconfig is a univariate series suitable for forecasting.tabular-regression: theprovidersconfig exposes per-provider numeric features (p50 / p90 / p99 / mean / success rate / sample size) and categorical features (type / layer / tag) per snapshot.other(information retrieval / agent grounding): theheadlinesconfig is shaped to fit into a single LLM tool call. Agents reading it get the headline number, the leader, the methodology link, and the citation URL in one row.
A live leaderboard for every benchmark is at
https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/<slug>.
Languages
The dataset is monolingual: English (en). All text fields (title,
category, metric, unit) are English. Provider names are project
trademarks and preserve their original casing.
Dataset Structure
Data Instances
Each config is a flat Parquet table partitioned by snapshot_date.
A row looks like (headlines):
{
"snapshot_date": "2026-06-22",
"captured_at": "2026-06-22T14:37:00+00:00",
"slug": "bridge-quote-latency",
"title": "Bridge Quote Latency",
"category": "Bridges",
"metric": "Quote Latency",
"unit": "ms",
"status": "live",
"value": 412.0,
"higher_is_better": false,
"leader_name": "LI.FI",
"leader_slug": "lifi",
"leader_value": 412.0,
"bench_sample_size": 12480.0,
"as_of": "2026-06-22T14:30:00.000Z",
"citation_url": "https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/bridge-quote-latency",
"stat_api_url": "https://openchainbench.com/api/stat/bridge-quote-latency",
"source_url": "https://github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/blob/main/benchmarks/bridge-quote-latency.yml",
"license": "CC-BY-4.0",
"schema_version": 2
}
Data Fields
Each config has its own schema. JSON Schema files live alongside this
README under schemas/. Tables below are the authoritative source for
column names and nullability.
Data Fields, headlines
One row per (slug, snapshot_date). The "who leads" feed.
| Column | Type | Nullable | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| snapshot_date | string | no | Partition key, ISO date (UTC) of the capture | 2026-06-22 |
| captured_at | string | no | ISO 8601 timestamp of the capture | 2026-06-22T14:37:00+00:00 |
| slug | string | no | Benchmark slug, stable URL identifier | bridge-quote-latency |
| title | string | no | Human-readable benchmark title | Bridge Quote Latency |
| category | string | no | One of RPCs, Bridges, Blockchains, Aggregators, Trading, Wallets, NFT APIs |
Bridges |
| metric | string | no | What is measured | Quote Latency |
| unit | string | no | One of ms, s, sec, pct, bps, bp, count, slots, usd |
ms |
| status | string | no | One of live, draft, insufficient |
live |
| value | float64 | yes | Headline value of the leader. Null when status != live |
412.0 |
| higher_is_better | bool | yes | Direction of the metric, sourced from /api/stat. Null when the per-slug fetch failed |
false |
| leader_name | string | yes | Display name of the leading provider | LI.FI |
| leader_slug | string | yes | URL-safe slug of the leading provider | lifi |
| leader_value | float64 | yes | Leader's value in unit |
412.0 |
| bench_sample_size | float64 | yes | Aggregate sample count over the bench's run window | 12480.0 |
| as_of | string | yes | Source-side timestamp of the underlying measurement | 2026-06-22T14:30:00.000Z |
| citation_url | string | no | Canonical citation URL for the benchmark | https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/bridge-quote-latency |
| stat_api_url | string | no | Per-bench live JSON endpoint | https://openchainbench.com/api/stat/bridge-quote-latency |
| source_url | string | yes | URL of the bench YAML spec in this repo | https://github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/blob/main/benchmarks/bridge-quote-latency.yml |
| license | string | no | Always CC-BY-4.0 for the data |
CC-BY-4.0 |
| schema_version | int64 | no | Additive schema epoch, bumped on new columns | 2 |
Data Fields, providers
One row per (bench, provider, snapshot_date). Per-provider rankings.
| Column | Type | Nullable | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| snapshot_date | string | no | Partition key | 2026-06-22 |
| captured_at | string | no | ISO 8601 capture timestamp | 2026-06-22T14:37:00+00:00 |
| bench_slug | string | no | Foreign key into headlines.slug |
bridge-quote-latency |
| provider_name | string | no | Display name of the provider | LI.FI |
| provider_slug | string | no | URL-safe provider slug, stable across snapshots | lifi |
| provider_type | string | yes | Architectural category (e.g. aggregator, node-rpc, oracle) |
aggregator |
| provider_layer | string | yes | Network layer when declared (L1, L2, etc.) |
L1 |
| provider_tag | string | yes | Free-form tag from the bench YAML | premium |
| p50 | float64 | yes | 50th percentile in the bench's unit |
412.0 |
| p90 | float64 | yes | 90th percentile | 780.0 |
| p99 | float64 | yes | 99th percentile | 1230.0 |
| mean | float64 | yes | Arithmetic mean | 465.3 |
| success_rate | float64 | yes | Fraction (0..1) or percent (0..100) per bench convention | 0.997 |
| provider_sample_size | float64 | yes | Per-provider sample count over the run window | 2080.0 |
| is_leader | bool | no | True for the provider whose slug matches headlines.leader_slug |
true |
| schema_version | int64 | no | Schema epoch | 2 |
Data Fields, timeseries
One row per (bench, provider, window, point_index, snapshot_date). The
24h, 7d, and 30d trajectories sourced from /api/series.
| Column | Type | Nullable | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| snapshot_date | string | no | Partition key | 2026-06-22 |
| captured_at | string | no | ISO 8601 capture timestamp | 2026-06-22T14:37:00+00:00 |
| bench_slug | string | no | Foreign key into headlines.slug |
bridge-quote-latency |
| provider_slug | string | yes | Provider this point belongs to. Null only on legacy 24h fallback rows that predate per-provider series | lifi |
| point_index | int64 | no | Zero-based index inside the window | 42 |
| value | float64 | no | Value of the metric at this point, in the bench's unit |
423.7 |
| window | string | no | One of 24h, 7d, 30d |
24h |
| schema_version | int64 | no | Schema epoch | 2 |
Data Fields, chain_leaders
One row per (bench, chain, snapshot_date). Per-chain leader and worst provider for benches whose spec declares a chain dimension. Currently empty: see "Considerations for Using the Data" for the open task.
| Column | Type | Nullable | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| snapshot_date | string | no | Partition key | 2026-06-22 |
| captured_at | string | no | ISO 8601 capture timestamp | 2026-06-22T14:37:00+00:00 |
| bench_slug | string | no | Foreign key into headlines.slug |
eth-rpc-head-lag |
| chain | string | no | Chain slug from the bench spec | ethereum |
| leader_name | string | yes | Best provider on this chain | Mobula |
| leader_slug | string | yes | URL-safe leader slug | mobula |
| leader_value | float64 | yes | Leader's value on this chain | 87.2 |
| worst_name | string | yes | Worst provider on this chain | LegacyRPC |
| worst_slug | string | yes | URL-safe worst slug | legacyrpc |
| worst_value | float64 | yes | Worst provider's value | 1421.3 |
| schema_version | int64 | no | Schema epoch | 2 |
Data Splits
Every config exposes a single train split. There is no held-out
evaluation split because the dataset is observational: it records
measurements as they happen and downstream users define their own
train / test cuts (typically by snapshot_date).
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
The OpenChainBench site renders human-readable leaderboards but its underlying JSON feeds are designed to be agent-friendly: every value is paired with a methodology link, a license, and a sample size. This dataset freezes those feeds daily so:
- LLM agents and journalists can cite a deterministic snapshot.
- ML researchers can train models without depending on a live API whose numbers move every minute.
- Operators can compare today's leader against arbitrary historical baselines without rebuilding the harness.
Source Data
Initial Data Collection and Normalization
Raw measurements are collected by per-bench harnesses (open-sourced in
the OpenChainBench GitHub repo
or, for a few benches, in a private mobula-api repo where they exist
behind paid API keys). Harnesses publish Prometheus metrics that the
OCB Next.js app aggregates into a Benchmark object per bench.
The dataset publisher reads from:
https://openchainbench.com/api/citablefor the headline feed.https://openchainbench.com/api/stat/<slug>for per-bench detail (provider rankings, sparkline,higherIsBetter).https://openchainbench.com/api/series/<slug>?range=<window>for the 24h / 7d / 30d per-provider trajectories.
Each per-bench page documents its full methodology. The
citation_url column of headlines is the stable link to that page.
Who are the source language producers?
All text fields (titles, methodology copy, category labels) are
authored by OpenChainBench contributors in the YAML benchmark specs
under benchmarks/ in the GitHub repo. The data values themselves are
machine-generated by the measurement harnesses.
Annotations
The dataset has no human-applied annotation layer. Provider rankings
and leader flags are derived programmatically from the percentile
measurements according to each bench's higher_is_better direction.
Annotation process
The OCB Next.js layer computes the leader as the provider with the
best p50 according to the bench's direction. bestPerChain and
worstPerChain (when populated) are computed with the same rule
scoped to chain-restricted samples. The is_leader boolean in the
providers table is a derived projection of headlines.leader_slug.
Who are the annotators?
There are no human annotators. Categorical fields like category,
metric, unit, provider_type, and provider_layer are authored
by the bench YAML maintainers and reviewed via the same PR process as
the harness code.
Personal and Sensitive Information
The dataset contains no personal or sensitive information. Provider identifiers refer to operational entities (companies, networks, public APIs) and are publicly listed on the OpenChainBench site.
Considerations for Using the Data
Social Impact of Dataset
Public, reproducible measurements of crypto infrastructure raise the bar for operator transparency. Downstream consumers should not, however, treat any single snapshot as definitive: providers' production characteristics change with traffic, deployments, and incident recovery.
Discussion of Biases
- Vantage bias: latency benchmarks are scraped from a small set of
Prometheus harnesses located in specific cloud regions. The exact
vantage points and methodology are documented per bench at
citation_url. - Sample asymmetry: providers that rate-limit our probes hard end
up with smaller
provider_sample_sizethan providers that allow generous quotas. This biases percentile estimates upward (fewer samples surface tail latency less reliably). Theis_leaderflag is derived purely from the p50 figure and may therefore reflect measurement-side asymmetry, not just provider performance. - Aggregator coverage: providers that wrap multiple upstream APIs
(aggregators, with
provider_type = "aggregator") compete on a different surface than single-vendor providers and are not strictly apples-to-apples comparable. Theprovider_typecolumn is meant to let consumers filter or stratify by this distinction.
Other Known Limitations
- Schema stability promise (additive only): new columns may be
added without warning. Consumer queries should select named columns
rather than
SELECT *. Existing columns are never renamed or removed within aschema_version. If a breaking change is unavoidable, a parallel v3 / v4 folder ships alongside the v2 partitions so old consumers keep working. chain_leadersis currently empty: thebestPerChain/worstPerChaindata exists inside the OCB aggregator but is not exposed by/api/citableor/api/statyet. The table is shipped with its canonical schema so downstream pipelines can stabilize against a real (zero-row) parquet today and start receiving rows as soon as the API surfaces the field. Tracked in the publisher's source code as aTODO.- 24h legacy fallback: when
/api/seriesreturns no payload for a bench's 24h window, the publisher falls back to the aggregatesparklinefrom/api/stat. Those fallback rows carry the leader'sprovider_slugrather than a per-provider series; downstream users who care about per-provider trajectories should filter onwindow in ('7d', '30d')or joinprovider_slugagainst theprovidersconfig. - Quorum guard: if the source feed reports fewer than half its
benches as
liveon capture day, the publisher refuses to upload a new partition. The previous good snapshot stays as truth that day.
Additional Information
Dataset Curators
OpenChainBench Contributors. The publishing pipeline is open source
under the Apache 2.0 license at
github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench
(see scripts/hf_publisher/).
Licensing Information
Data is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. You may use it freely with attribution to OpenChainBench.
The publishing scripts and benchmark YAML specs are released under Apache 2.0.
Citation Information
The dataset is archived on Zenodo with a permanent DOI. Use the concept DOI when citing the dataset in general (it always resolves to the latest version). Use the version DOI when citing a specific snapshot for reproducibility.
- Concept DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20800311
- v1.0.1 version DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20800312
Suggested attribution string:
OpenChainBench. (2026). OpenChainBench Crypto Infrastructure Benchmarks [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20800311
BibTeX:
@dataset{openchainbench_2026,
author = {{OpenChainBench Contributors}},
title = {OpenChainBench Crypto Infrastructure Benchmarks},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Zenodo},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.20800311},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20800311},
note = {Live mirror at https://huggingface.co/datasets/OpenChainBench/benchmarks}
}
A machine-readable CITATION.cff is also published at the root of
this dataset; GitHub, HF, and Zenodo all parse it.
Contributions
Bug reports, schema requests, and new benchmark proposals go through GitHub Issues at github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/issues. Benchmarks are contributed as YAML files plus a Prometheus-emitting harness; the contributor guide is in CONTRIBUTING.md.
Quick start
Python (datasets)
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("OpenChainBench/benchmarks", "headlines", split="train")
print(ds.filter(lambda r: r["slug"] == "bridge-quote-latency")[0])
Polars (recommended for analytics)
import polars as pl
df = pl.scan_parquet(
"hf://datasets/OpenChainBench/benchmarks/headlines/**/*.parquet"
)
latest = (
df.filter(pl.col("snapshot_date") == df.select(pl.col("snapshot_date").max()).collect().item())
.select(["slug", "leader_name", "value", "unit"])
.collect()
)
print(latest)
DuckDB (one-liner)
SELECT slug, leader_name, value, unit
FROM 'hf://datasets/OpenChainBench/benchmarks/headlines/**/*.parquet'
WHERE snapshot_date = (
SELECT max(snapshot_date)
FROM 'hf://datasets/OpenChainBench/benchmarks/headlines/**/*.parquet'
);
More examples in examples/.
Update cadence
Snapshots run daily at 00:00 UTC via a GitHub Action. If a run aborts on a quorum check (the source feed has fewer than half its benches live), no new partition is added that day. The previous good snapshot stays as truth.
Provenance
- Source code (publisher + benchmark YAML specs): https://github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench
- Live measurement APIs: https://openchainbench.com/api/citable, /api/stat, /api/series, /api/llm-context, /api/mcp/mcp
- Issues / questions: https://github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/issues