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+// Copyright (c) 2024- The Bitcoin Core developers
+// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
+#include <bench/bench.h>
+#include <random.h>
+#include <stddef.h>
+#include <util/strencodings.h>
+#include <cassert>
+#include <optional>
+#include <vector>
+
+std::string generateHexString(size_t length) {
+    const auto hex_digits = "0123456789ABCDEF";
+    FastRandomContext rng(/*fDeterministic=*/true);
+
+    std::string data;
+    while (data.size() < length) {
+        auto digit = hex_digits[rng.randbits(4)];
+        data.push_back(digit);
+    }
+    return data;
+}
+
+static void HexParse(benchmark::Bench& bench)
+{
+    auto data = generateHexString(130); // Generates 678B0EDA0A1FD30904D5A65E3568DB82DB2D918B0AD8DEA18A63FECCB877D07CAD1495C7157584D877420EF38B8DA473A6348B4F51811AC13C786B962BEE5668F9 by default
+
+    bench.batch(data.size()).unit("base16").run([&] {
+        auto result = TryParseHex(data);
+        assert(result != std::nullopt); // make sure we're measuring the successful case
+        ankerl::nanobench::doNotOptimizeAway(result);
+    });
+}
+
+BENCHMARK(HexParse, benchmark::PriorityLevel::HIGH);