Polygon Block Performance

    What is the average time between blocks on Polygon?

    Introduction

    Polygon is a highly secure, decentralized Ethereum scaling platform that was started in 2017 by two experienced blockchain developers and a business consultant under the brand name Matic. It allows blockchain developers to make scalable dApps with low transaction fees. After the organization changed its name to Polygon in 2021, an experienced Ethereum developer named Mihalio Bijalic joined as a fourth co-founder. They have raised millions of dollars from many well-known institutions to build their network.

    \n NEAR is a public, sharded, developer-friendly, proof-of-stake blockchain that serves as the foundation for the decentralized development platform known as NEAR. NEAR was developed on top of the NEAR Protocol. To put it another way, NEAR is analogous to a public cloud platform that is controlled by the community. This indicates that it is a platform for the creation of decentralized applications that is both extremely scalable and inexpensive for developers to use. Although it is built on top of the blockchain that is used by the NEAR Protocol, the NEAR Platform also includes a wide variety of tools, such as explorers, CLI tools, wallet apps, and interoperability components. These tools make it much simpler for developers to build new applications, which in turn helps the ecosystem scale more widely. \n \n Flow is a blockchain that is quick, distributed, and user-friendly for programmers; it will serve as the backbone for the next generation of apps, games, and digital assets. It is built on a multi-role architecture that allows it to scale without sharding, bringing about significant performance gains without compromising on ACID compliance or the ease with which developers can work in the system. Using Flow, programmers may create successful crypto and crypto-enabled companies. Users of Flow applications can retain ownership of their data, develop decentralized economies where their contributions are valued, and trade newly created digital assets on global markets. Flow's smart contracts may be pieced together like Legos to power apps for everyone from basketball fanatics to enterprises with stringent criteria.

    Approach

    To compare the block performance of Polygon blockchain with NEAR and FLOW and Arbitrum we need to get:

    • Average number of transactions on Polygon, NEAR, Arbitrum and Flow each block.
    • Average/Minimum/Maximum time between blocks on NEAR, Arbitrum and Flow.

    Therefore, we need to use the following tables:

    • flow.core.fact_transactions
    • near.core.fact_transactions
    • flipside_prod_db.polygon.transactions
    • arbitrum.core.fact_transactions
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    As observed in the graphs, there are several things to notice:

    • All the mentioned blockchains have the same number of minimal transaction per block with 1 transaction.
    • Polygon has the highest number of average transaction per block with 82 transactions. Flow only has an average of 12 transaction per block, Near only has around 6 transaction on average per block and Arbitrum has 1.16 transaction on average per block.
    • Polygon has the highest number of maximum transaction per block with 1538 transactions. Flow only has a maximum of 435 transaction per block, Near has around maximum 623 transaction per block and Arbitrum has maximum 128 transactions on average per block.

    This means Polygon is used more than other mentioned chains in term of number of transactions per block.

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    As observed in the graph above, there are several things to notice:

    • Apart from Polygon with the minimal time between blocks is 2 seconds. All other mentioned blockchains have the same minimal time between blocks - 0 second,
    • Arbitrum has the highest maximum time between blocks with 23421 seconds. The maximum time between blocks of Flow is 17059 seconds and the maximum time between blocks of Near is 726 seconds and that of Polygon is 25 seconds.
    • Polygon has the highest average time between blocks with 2.24 seconds. The average time between blocks of Flow is 0.114 seconds and the average time between blocks of Near is 1.18 seconds and that of Arbitrum is 1.1 seconds.

    From the numbers above, we can see that Polygon is a stable blockchain with the minimal difference between max, min and average time between blocks and Arbitrum looks like the most unstable one with a big difference between max, min and average time between blocks.