ENDGAME: MegaETH vs Web2 Apps

Welcome back, anon.

In our last article we talked about how MegaETH defines "real-time" speeds, where the limiting factors are for most/all chains (with a focus on EVM) and how we aim to address those problems.

Today, we talk about how those numbers stack up to web2 applications you may be familiar with.

Come along.

A RECAP

First, lets bring back the high-level details from the previous article for context.

There are 3 time-related thresholds that impact user experience, which are 100ms (instant), 1,000ms (flow) and 10,000ms (attention)
In the EVM, the largest impact to the transaction lifecycle under direct control of the system are block times
MegaETH is reducing this <10ms so that a users distance-to-chain is all that dictates their experience

When normalizing user distance, here is how popular EVM chains would stack up:

Block time comparative with user distance normalized to 100ms (half the world's circumference)

Cool? Cool. Now lets take these times to the real world.

Web2 Comparative

A lot of the above is great for understanding how things stack up within our crypto ecosystem, but what about everyday apps that don't use blockchain at all? Things that are ubiquitous - like Google searching or Instagram. Let's take a look:

A comparative of MegaETHs full transaction lifecycle to web2 platforms. These data points are sourced from a combination of Perplexity, Claude, Pingdom and Sematext

Things to note:

The upper bound of this chart stops at 400ms (.4s), which would be 5x'd by accepted L2 EVM block times today and 30x'd by Ethereum mainnet. That doesn't even include the time it takes for the message to go from user-to-block builder
Due to MegaETH having a single block producer it is fair to assume that the average distance-from-user is further away than web2 apps with geographically distributed servers. To balance this, latency (in black) is normalized to ~50ms for web2 and higher (~75ms) for MegaETH.
None of these apps are below the 100ms threshold noted in our recap, but they all feel relatively "instant" - or at the least imperceptible.
Our times are well within the realm of familiar applications.

CONCLUSION

We not only have a plan for achieving "Real-Time" but if successful we will be on-par with everyday applications you know and love today, which has the potential to unlock novel, 0-to-1 applications not seen in crypto today.

Build them with us.

Ω OMEGA.