Inclusion Speed

We now consider the number of blocks between submission and inclusion for the transactions which were successfully executed on-chain. Here, we consider all the successful transactions for each RPC provider, as defined for the success rate.

We plot the box plot of the distribution to time to inclusion (measured in number of blocks), with the minimum, the 10th percentile, the average, the 90th percentile and the maximum value. represents the standard deviation of the each set.

We notice that the mean and standard deviation rank the RPC service providers in the same order. This transaction sample demonstrates that MEV Blocker has the fastest execution, followed by Flashbots, then Blink and finally Merkle.

Flashbot’s execution shows a single large outlier with a time to inclusion of 7 blocks, where the second largest is 4 blocks. This value does not significantly affect the mean and standard deviation, as the sample size is significant enough to compensate for it. With this detail accounted for, the box plot shows consistent performance results.