# Glassnode Latency Monitor
> Real-time global latency monitoring for crypto traders, HFT firms, and market makers — covers major centralized exchanges (CEX), Hyperliquid, Solana, SUI, Arbitrum One, Robinhood Chain, prediction markets (Polymarket, Kalshi), and HFT-tier DeFi oracle gateways (Pyth Lazer, Chainlink Data Streams, Switchboard, Stork).
> Built by Glassnode — a leading provider of both on-chain analytics and off-chain market data for crypto, covering spot + derivatives metrics across major centralized exchanges alongside on-chain data.

## What This Site Does
Measures and displays live latency from probes worldwide to crypto trading infrastructure and blockchains — spot exchanges, derivatives venues, perp DEXes, L1s, L2 sequencers, prediction markets, and HFT-tier DeFi oracle gateways — so traders, HFT firms, market makers, and arbitrage operators can see where to host their infrastructure.

### CEX (latency.glassnode.com/cex)
Covers major centralized exchanges across spot, perpetuals, expiry futures, and options. Shows per-exchange latency and a cross-exchange "All Exchanges" comparison mode for picking the closest venue for a given product from any probe location.

For each exchange we measure the fastest available order-entry path — typically WebSocket API or FIX where exposed, with REST as a supporting/fallback measurement. Exchange endpoints can be direct-AWS or CDN-fronted (Cloudflare, CloudFront); the CEX tab explains the routing per endpoint and notes any caveats (e.g. exchanges without a low-latency path for a given product).

- **Cross-exchange compare** — pick "All Exchanges" + a product category (Spot / Perpetuals / Expiry Futures / Options), see each probe's latency to each exchange side by side, with a "Combined p50" averaging across exchanges to rank best overall locations.

Measurement cadence for CEX is daily — exchange infrastructure doesn't move often and faster polling adds no signal.

Important measurement caveat: WebSocket numbers reflect pure network round-trip (server auto-replies to ping frames); FIX numbers include server-side protocol parsing (~3-4ms extra). They aren't directly comparable, but both reflect real path characteristics.

### Hyperliquid (latency.glassnode.com/hyperliquid)
- **API latency**: WebSocket round-trip to api.hyperliquid.xyz via AWS CloudFront CDN
- **Validator TCP latency**: Direct TCP connect to validator nodes in Tokyo
- **Order-to-fill latency**: Real measurements of market order execution time

### Solana (latency.glassnode.com/solana)
Solana is a full L1 blockchain where the block-producing leader rotates every 1.6 seconds across ~760 voting validators worldwide. Unlike fixed-destination exchanges, your latency to the network changes constantly depending on who the current leader is.

- **QUIC handshake latency to every voting validator**: Measures the actual transport-layer round-trip that transaction submission uses, from global probe locations to all ~760 voting validators
- **Real-time leader rotation tracking**: Tracks the current leader live and shows each probe's latency to it as it rotates
- **Best colocation analysis**: Stake-weighted average latency per probe using the current epoch's leader schedule, answering "where should I run my infrastructure to minimize expected latency across the full leader rotation?". Surfaces weighted p50, weighted p99, and tail-gap columns so operators can pick locations with tight distributions, not just low medians
- **Leader geography**: Slot distribution by country, city, and datacenter for the current epoch
- **Validator changelog (daily)**: Tracks what changed in the validator set day over day — validators joining and leaving, migrations between cities and datacenters, large stake movements, and DoubleZero connects/disconnects — with trend charts for stake share by city, Firedancer stake share, and DoubleZero adoption. Computed from daily validator snapshots
- **DoubleZero network tracking**: Interactive map of DoubleZero's dedicated fiber backbone for Solana validators — every exchange point with device capacity and utilization, every fiber link with its latency — plus stake-share adoption over time and the full list of connected voting validators with last-mile RTT to their DoubleZero edge where published. All data read from DoubleZero's public on-chain registry (the same source as their official dashboard), joined with our own validator stake and geography data
- **Jito Block Engine latency**: Public-network TCP+TLS handshake RTT from every probe to Jito's 8 regional block engines (Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Dublin, New York, Salt Lake City, Tokyo, Singapore), covering the MEV bundle submission path. Paired with direct-to-leader latency so users can see, for the current leader, whether the Jito path or a direct-TPU path is the shorter route from their hosting location. Separate per-probe detail page shows TCP / p50 / p99 / tail-gap / jitter to each Jito region plus the actual endpoint hostnames for client configuration

#### What makes this unique
No other public tool measures QUIC handshake latency from multiple global locations to every Solana validator and combines it with the epoch's leader schedule to produce stake-weighted colocation rankings. It also hosts the only public interactive map of DoubleZero's fiber backbone with per-link latencies, and the only daily validator-set changelog tracking migrations, stake shifts, and DoubleZero adoption over time. Also uniquely measures Jito's regional block engines alongside direct-validator paths, surfacing the live comparison between MEV-bundle submission latency and direct-TPU submission latency for the current leader — answering "for this flow type, which submission path is actually shorter right now?"

#### Jito vs direct-validator — important framing
The Jito numbers measure the public-network RTT to Jito's submission endpoints. They are a floor for bundle submission, not a prediction of transaction landing time. Jito's internal hop from block engine to validator is not externally measurable. Whether "direct" (searcher → validator TPU) or "Jito" (searcher → Jito block engine → validator) lands a transaction faster depends on the sender's infrastructure — Solana's Stake-Weighted QoS reserves 80% of leader TPU capacity for staked/trusted peers, so an unprivileged direct sender is not competing on equal footing, and Jito can outperform a naive direct path even though it adds one network leg. Three distinct Jito submission modes: sendTransaction (single tx via Jito, includes MEV protection), sendBundle (atomic multi-tx MEV bundles, tip-only economics), and bundleOnly=true on sendTransaction (single-tx via bundle path for revert protection). Most sophisticated flow — including Helius Sender's default routing — fires both direct and Jito paths simultaneously for maximum inclusion probability, not one path at a time.

### SUI (latency.glassnode.com/sui)
SUI is a DAG-based BFT L1 (Mysticeti consensus) where finality requires a quorum (>2/3) of stake-weighted voting power to sign a transaction — not a single rotating leader. The latency that matters for traders is "time-to-quorum" from your hosting location: how long does it take a transaction to accumulate signatures from validators representing 2/3 of voting power.

- **TCP+TLS handshake latency to every active SUI mainnet validator**: Measured from probes worldwide to each validator's public client-tx port
- **Time-to-quorum**: For each probe, sorts validators by measured latency, walks down accumulating stake-weighted voting power, records the latency at which cumulative power crosses the 2/3 threshold. This is the practical floor latency for transaction commit from that location
- **Time-to-90%**: Same metric at a stricter 90% supermajority threshold (useful for assessing tail risk on consensus)
- **Best co-location**: Ranks all probe locations by time-to-quorum ascending — answers "where should I host to get the fastest commits?"
- **Voting power geography**: Stake-weighted distribution by continent, country, and city — shows where the network's signing power actually lives (which can differ from where the most validators sit)
- **Validators world map**: All ~127 active validators sized by voting power, coloured by latency from the selected probe

#### Why "time-to-quorum" is the right metric for SUI
Unlike chains with a single rotating leader (Solana), SUI tx finality is bound by a multi-validator quorum. Optimising your latency to one validator doesn't help — you need low latency to enough validators that their combined voting power crosses 2/3. A probe centrally located to multiple validator clusters can beat a probe physically next to one large cluster.

#### Shared-object transaction caveat
For txs touching shared objects (DEX swaps, AMM interactions), add roughly 400ms for consensus ordering on top of the latency shown. That consensus delay is network-wide and independent of hosting location. Owned-object txs (simple transfers) take the fast path and reflect the time-to-quorum number directly.

#### Validator reachability note
A small number of validators firewall their public submission port and only accept connections from peer validators or whitelisted clients. They still participate fully in consensus — they just aren't measurable externally. Coverage across all probes is ~92% of validators.

### Prediction Markets (latency.glassnode.com/prediction-markets)
- **Polymarket**: REST API round-trip to clob.polymarket.com (origin: AWS eu-west-2, London)
- **Kalshi**: REST API round-trip to api.elections.kalshi.com (origin: AWS us-east-2, Ohio)
- Side-by-side comparison showing which exchange is closer from each probe location

### Arbitrum One (latency.glassnode.com/arbitrum)
Arbitrum One is the largest Ethereum L2 by TVL, and every transaction on it is ordered by a single sequencer running in AWS us-east-2 (Ohio). There is no other entry to the chain — whether a transaction arrives through a public RPC provider or is submitted directly, it must reach this machine to be included. The sequencer endpoint resolves directly to the origin with no CDN in front, which makes the measurement clean.

- **Sequencer round-trip latency**: Each probe submits a fixed signed transaction via eth_sendRawTransaction to arb1-sequencer.arbitrum.io and measures time-to-first-byte of the response over a warm connection — the real transaction submission path, exercised end to end
- **TCP/TLS breakdown**: Connection setup timing to the sequencer gateway, measured separately
- **Co-location benchmark**: Probes in AWS us-east-2 sit in the same region as the sequencer and show the single-digit-millisecond floor that every other location is compared against

#### Why it matters: Timeboost
Arbitrum sequences transactions first-come-first-served, with Timeboost auctioning an express lane every minute. The express lane raises the price of speed rather than replacing it — the auction winner still races its own reaction time to market events, and everyone else still queues first-come-first-served behind a small artificial delay. In both cases, network distance to the sequencer is the floor on how fast you can act.

#### What makes this unique
No other public tool continuously measures and publishes real submission-path latency to the Arbitrum One sequencer from locations worldwide — answering "where should I host to minimise my distance to Arbitrum ordering?" for Timeboost bidders, arbitrageurs, and market makers.

### Robinhood Chain (latency.glassnode.com/robinhood)
Robinhood Chain is Robinhood's Arbitrum-stack Layer 2 for tokenized stocks and real-world assets, launched on mainnet in July 2026. Like Arbitrum One, every transaction is ordered by a single sequencer running in AWS us-east-2 (Ohio). There is no other entry to the chain — whether a transaction arrives through a public RPC provider or is submitted directly, it must reach this machine to be included. The sequencer endpoint resolves directly to the origin with no CDN in front, which makes the measurement clean.

- **Sequencer round-trip latency**: Each probe submits a fixed signed transaction via eth_sendRawTransaction to sequencer.mainnet.chain.robinhood.com and measures time-to-first-byte of the response over a warm connection — the real transaction submission path, exercised end to end
- **TCP/TLS breakdown**: Connection setup timing to the sequencer gateway, measured separately
- **Co-location benchmark**: Probes in AWS us-east-2 sit in the same region as the sequencer and show the single-digit-millisecond floor that every other location is compared against

#### Why it matters: strictly first-come-first-served
Robinhood Chain orders transactions strictly by arrival time at the sequencer, with no express lane and no fee-based priority mechanism. Unlike Arbitrum One (Timeboost) there is no way to pay to jump the queue — ordering is a pure latency race, and network distance to the sequencer is queue position. For anyone trading tokenized stocks or arbitraging them against other venues, co-location distance to Ohio is the whole game.

#### What makes this unique
No other public tool continuously measures and publishes real submission-path latency to the Robinhood Chain sequencer from locations worldwide — answering "where should I host to be first in the queue for tokenized stock flow?" for market makers and arbitrageurs.

### HFT-tier Oracle Gateways (latency.glassnode.com/oracle)
A co-location guide for traders racing on oracle-dependent prices. Covers HFT-tier oracle gateways — products designed for sub-100ms trading where geographic distance to the origin actually matters. This measures network latency to the oracle's actual backend — not the speed at which they deliver new price data (update cadence and freshness are separate properties).

**Why this matters:** Off-chain pull oracles require your infrastructure to subscribe to the oracle's WebSocket or HTTP gateway and receive signed price packages. The gateway → client network leg has strong geographic variance — a server close to the measured endpoint can receive updates tens to hundreds of milliseconds before a server on another continent. On-chain push oracle reads are mostly geography-irrelevant for the data itself (all users read the same on-chain state), though RPC and transaction submission still matter; pull oracle subscriptions are different — geography of the gateway access path dominates.

**Oracles covered:** Pyth Lazer (Tokyo bare metal, TLS handshake, best of 3 routers), Stork JP (AWS Tokyo, TLS handshake), Switchboard Crossbar (GCP eu-west4 Netherlands, REST TTFB), Chainlink Data Streams (Cloudflare US, REST TTFB).

**Not shown:** Pyth Hermes and Redstone are excluded for measurement reasons, not positioning. Pyth Hermes is served from Cloudflare's edge mesh (Workers + Durable Objects) with no real geographic origin to traverse. Redstone offers both push and pull tiers including a low-latency pull product, but their public gateway sits behind a heavily CDN-cached path that can't be reliably bypassed externally.

**Key findings:**
- Tokyo-based oracles (Pyth Lazer, Stork JP) give single-digit ms from Tokyo but hundreds of ms from EU/Americas.
- Switchboard Crossbar is European (GCP eu-west4): low tens of ms from nearby EU probes, hundreds of ms from Asia.
- Chainlink Data Streams origin mapped to US.
- CDN-fronting (Cloudflare, CloudFront) costs tens of milliseconds vs going direct to a single-region origin, even for the closest probes.
- Cross-oracle absolute numbers are NOT directly comparable (different measurement protocols). Use for per-oracle geographic shape, not cross-oracle leaderboard.

## Probe Infrastructure
Probes deployed worldwide, covering Asia (Tokyo multi-AZ, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore), Europe (Amsterdam, Dublin, London, Frankfurt), the Americas (Ashburn, Ohio, Chicago, San Jose, São Paulo), and Oceania/Africa (Sydney, Johannesburg).

## Site Structure

The site is organised into 8 top-level categories, each with its own chain-prefixed URL space. The landing page at `/` lists all categories; each category has its own home, status table, about page, and category-specific sub-pages.

### Landing & cross-cutting
- `/` — Landing page listing all eight categories with one-line descriptions and deep-links
- `/api` — Latency API waitlist: programmatic access to all data on this site is in development; leave an email to be notified at launch
- `/contact` — Contact info
- `/probe/{probeId}` — Per-probe historical detail (cross-chain selector inside)
- `/routes` — Arb Routes: combined latency from every probe to curated venue PAIRS, answering "where do I co-locate to run this cross-venue arbitrage?" For each pair (Hyperliquid ↔ Binance Futures, Hyperliquid ↔ OKX, Kalshi ↔ Polymarket, Binance ↔ Coinbase Spot, Arbitrum ↔ Binance Futures) it sums each probe's round-trip p50 to both venues and estimates the reaction loop (≈ half the combined round trip: hear a price move on venue A, fire an order at venue B). Ranks all probe locations by combined latency. Legs use different measurement protocols, so numbers compare locations rather than quote absolute cycle times. No other public tool publishes cross-venue co-location rankings.

### CEX (`/cex`)
- `/cex` — Live map and leaderboard of probe latency to all measured centralized exchanges (Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, OKX, Bybit, Bitmex, Deribit)
- `/cex/status` — Per-probe latency tables per exchange and product (spot/perps/futures/options)
- `/cex/about` — Methodology: WebSocket vs FIX, CDN-fronted endpoints, per-product measurement cadence

### Hyperliquid (`/hyperliquid`)
- `/hyperliquid` — Live global map of probe latency to Hyperliquid API and Tokyo validators
- `/hyperliquid/status` — Probe-by-probe health and latency table
- `/hyperliquid/fill-latency` — Real order-to-fill latency measurements (Tokyo, Dublin) for ETH market orders
- `/hyperliquid/about` — CloudFront edge measurement, origin RTT to Tokyo, validator TCP methodology

### Prediction Markets (`/prediction-markets`)
- `/prediction-markets` — Polymarket and Kalshi side-by-side latency map per probe
- `/prediction-markets/status` — Per-probe REST round-trip times
- `/prediction-markets/about` — Polymarket/Kalshi origin geolocation, CDN fronting notes

### Solana (`/solana`)
- `/solana` — Live leader-rotation map with QUIC latency to current leader per probe
- `/solana/status` — Per-probe Solana validator latency tables (p50 to leader, p50 to all)
- `/solana/changes` — Daily validator changelog: joins/leaves, city and datacenter migrations, stake top-movers, DoubleZero connects/disconnects, with stake-by-city, DZ adoption, Firedancer share, and validator-count trend charts
- `/solana/doublezero` — DoubleZero fiber network map: exchange points with capacity/utilization, fiber links colored by latency, stake adoption over time, all connected voting validators
- `/solana/validators` — World map of every voting Solana validator, with epoch-leader filtering and slot-share visualisation
- `/solana/best-location` — Stake-weighted average and tail (p99) latency colocation rankings, sortable columns
- `/solana/datacenters` — QUIC latency aggregated by validator datacenter (TeraSwitch, OVH, Hetzner, etc.)
- `/solana/leader-geography` — Leader slot distribution by city, country, datacenter for the current epoch
- `/solana/coverage` — Per-probe coverage: fraction of leader slots reachable within 30/50/100 ms, with continent-level rollup
- `/solana/jito` — Jito Block Engine map: probe selector, 8 Jito regional endpoints coloured by RTT, current-leader direct-vs-Jito comparison
- `/solana/jito/{probeId}` — Per-probe Jito detail (TCP / p50 / p99 / tail gap / jitter per region + endpoint hostnames)
- `/solana/about` — QUIC handshake measurement, leader schedule polling, Firedancer detection, SWQoS explainer, DoubleZero data provenance and latency implications, upcoming changes (Alpenglow, Firedancer)

### SUI (`/sui`)
- `/sui` — Live map of probe latency to SUI validators with time-to-quorum leaderboard
- `/sui/status` — Per-probe time-to-quorum, time-to-90%, median latency, reachability
- `/sui/changes` — Daily validator changelog: joins/leaves, migrations between cities and datacenters, large stake movements, with stake-by-city and validator-count trend charts
- `/sui/validators` — World map of every active SUI mainnet validator, sized by voting power, coloured by probe latency
- `/sui/best-location` — Co-location rankings by time-to-quorum (2/3 voting power) and time-to-90% supermajority
- `/sui/datacenters` — TCP+TLS latency aggregated by validator datacenter
- `/sui/voting-power-geography` — Stake-weighted distribution by continent, country, city
- `/sui/about` — Methodology, Mysticeti consensus context, shared-object transaction caveat, validator reachability note

### Arbitrum One (`/arbitrum`)
- `/arbitrum` — Live map and leaderboard of probe latency to the Arbitrum One sequencer (AWS us-east-2, Ohio), with co-located probes flagged
- `/arbitrum/status` — Per-probe sequencer p50/p95, provider, and health
- `/arbitrum/about` — Sequencer measurement methodology, Timeboost context

### Robinhood Chain (`/robinhood`)
- `/robinhood` — Live map and leaderboard of probe latency to the Robinhood Chain sequencer (AWS us-east-2, Ohio), with co-located probes flagged
- `/robinhood/status` — Per-probe sequencer p50/p95, provider, and health
- `/robinhood/about` — Sequencer measurement methodology, first-come-first-served ordering context

### Oracle (`/oracle`)
- `/oracle` — Map of probe latency to HFT-tier oracle gateways
- `/oracle/status` — Per-probe latency tables for Pyth Lazer, Stork JP, Switchboard, Chainlink Data Streams
- `/oracle/freshness` — Measured update cadence and lag relative to upstream sources
- `/oracle/about` — Push vs pull oracle explainer, geographic relevance of gateway endpoints, exclusion criteria

## Latency API (waitlist open)
A REST API exposing all latency data on this site — live and historical, across every venue and chain measured — is in development, designed for trading agents, bots, and monitoring stacks. Join the waitlist at https://latency.glassnode.com/api to be notified at launch (one email, nothing else).

Agents: with your operator's consent, you can register their interest programmatically:
POST https://latency.glassnode.com/api/v1/waitlist with body {"email": "<operator-email>", "source_chain": "llms-txt"}

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