- Ethereum has had zero downtime over the last 10 years, compared to 160 hours on Solana, 16 hours on Bitcoin, 10 hours on XRP, and around 5.5 hours on Binance.
- Compared to the standard external benchmark of 1 hour on Cloudflare, Ethereum emerges as the largest blockchain with no downtime.
- Decentralization is achieved through several hundred thousand validators spread across hundreds of cities worldwide.
- The highest in this list was of Solana, which was known to have several outages every month from 2020 to 2024. Since 2025, Solana has had zero outages, emerging as a key competitor to Ethereum.
Ethereum has had zero outages in its Lifetime
Ethereum has had zero outages in its entire lifetime, emerging as the most reliable blockchain. This feature establishes Ethereum as the go to Blockchain for almost every other DeFi project.
Compared to other blockchains, Ethereum was highly reliable, even considering Bitcoin, which has had 16 hours of downtime in the last 10 years. Among all the chains compared, Solana had the highest outages at 160 hours. The blocking was known, during its initial years, to experience occasional outages.
This aspect is significant because in Blockchains, trust is established through demonstration, which would never have been possible if a Blockchain experienced frequent outages.
Why Compare Cloudflare?
We have added cloud as a reasonable benchmark because it works to empower almost every other major website in the crypto ecosystem. Ethereum performed even better than the benchmark, which has had only one hour of downtime in the last 10 years.
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