Recorded a 51.8% increase in weekly development activity (Github events) over the past week.

USDT deposits and withdrawals are now live on Backpack Exchange.

Expanding presence to the United States for the first time in the first half of 2026.

Equilibria's slisBNBx liquidity pool reached a TVL of over $2.8 million.

The BNB Chain Foundation spent 200,000 USDT to purchase four Chinese meme tokens (币安人生, 哈基米, 我踏马来了, and 老子) over a two-day period ending January 11, 2026.

Aster DEX launched TWAP (Time-Weighted Average Price) orders on BNB Chain on 2026-01-06.

Reached 12.6 million monthly stablecoin addresses in December 2025, surpassing Tron to become the chain with the most stablecoin addresses.

Ondo Finance expanded its Ondo Global Markets to support over 200 tokenized equities available on BNB Chain, adding 98 new stocks and ETFs.

Announced plans to reach 20,000 TPS with sub-second finality.

Reached $7.8 billion in DeFi total value locked (TVL).

Generated $2.71M in fees during the first week of 2026, ranking third among major blockchain networks.

Average transaction fee is $0.0062.

Generated 623 billion RPC calls through Ankr infrastructure during 2025, the highest volume among networks supported by Ankr.

Reached nearly $11B in stablecoin market cap as of 2025, placing it as the fourth-largest stablecoin network after being surpassed by Solana.

Generated $259.06M in fees during 2025, ranking 4th among all blockchains.

Belgtoken integrates with BNB Chain for private cross-chain swap functionality, enabling compliant, untraceable privacy transactions alongside Ethereum, Solana, and other chains.

Launched parallel execution feature on mainnet in 2025

BitMart DEX launched in September 2025 supporting Solana, BNB Chain, Ethereum, and Base with coverage of 1.49 million tokens.

Leads all Layer 1 blockchains by daily active users in 2025 with a 4.32 million daily average.

Fermi upgrade scheduled for 2026-01-14

Integrated with StableFlow for USDT and USDC crosschain transfers powered by NEAR Intents.

Listed on Gemini exchange with deposits and withdrawals enabled on December 23, 2025.

ZKP token became available for cross-chain transfers on Stargate across BNB Chain, Base, and Ethereum using the OFT standard from LayerZero.

BDX/AUD trading pair went live on GroveXchange using the BDX-BSC token on BNB Chain.

Supported as one of two chains (along with Ethereum) for the OChistmas event on Ocash Mainnet Alpha running from December 22, 2025 to January 22, 2026, where users can submit UTXO certificates for transaction proofs to earn points toward a 1,000,000 ZKJ prize pool.

Natively launched $U stablecoin from United Stables on December 19, 2025, which accepts USDT, USDC, and USD1 as minting collateral with 1:1 backing by fiat and stablecoins in segregated custody, using a stablecoin-inclusive reserve model as the first of its kind on the chain.

DEIN Mainnet launched with support for deposits on BNB Chain, enabling frxUSD and select stablecoins to be deposited as collateral for DeFi insurance policies.

Enables Amazon Web Services customers to settle cloud computing bills using BNB through Better Payment Network, an enterprise payment infrastructure built on BNB Chain.

New uniBTC boosted markets launched on BNB Chain, providing Pendle-based yield opportunities with enhanced APY structure.

Processed approximately $10 million in NVDIA tokenized stock redemptions this week with near-zero execution slippage and approximately $0.02 in network fees.

Circle's tokenized treasury product USYC is growing on the chain.

Partnered with Zetarium and SPACEID to integrate human-readable identity functionality into BNB Chain's DeFi stack, making names composable, portable, and usable across protocols.

Announced plans to roll out a new stablecoin aimed at powering liquidity across major application scenarios.

Integrated Franklin Templeton's Benji for RWA adoption in Q3 2025.

PancakeSwap partners with YZI Labs to co-incubate Probable, a prediction market protocol supporting onchain predictions and betting across sports, politics, crypto, and major events with automatic USDT conversion and UMA oracle price feeds.

Nina Rong appointed as Executive Director of Growth for BNB Chain.

A phishing contract on BNB Chain impersonates ZEROBASE to scam users into granting USDT approvals by falsely presenting itself as the official ZEROBASE interface.

Predict platform launches tomorrow with airdrop claims available for addresses that traded meaningful volume on BNB Chain memecoins, with snapshot already taken.

BNB Chain ranks as 2nd largest home for BlackRock's BUIDL with $500M AUM, all held by Ethena/Anchorage for USDtb collateral.

TermMaxFi reports $20M+ volume on Alpha Market and introduces Mindshare Program tied to future airdrops and Tier-Up Challenge offering volume-based multipliers up to 1.2x. RocketX adds zero-fee cross-chain support connecting BNB Chain to 200+ chains.

A wallet on BNB Chain was drained of approximately $700K in digital assets, with the attacker using 300 ETH from Tornado Cash and moving stolen funds to Ethereum network.

FAR token trading goes live on BNB Chain at 13:00 UTC with DEX liquidity pools opening, completing the migration from Polygon with a 60-day manual migration window for self-custody users.

BNB DeFi Festival launches with $300K in rewards distributed to BTC+ depositors in collaboration with Binance Wallet and Solv Protocol.

$FAR token announces migration to BNB Chain.

Fluid announces upcoming integration to power Venus Protocol on BNB Chain, expanding beyond its current deployment powering Jupiter Lend on Solana.

Confidential Layer launches bridge connecting BNB Chain (alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Base, and TON) to privacy chains with $CLONE token going live today, featuring 40% of bridge fees distributed to stakers and daily token buyback.

WalletConnect Pay launches at 94° Coffee in Lisbon with BNB Chain support for instant crypto payments including USDC, ETH, SOL, BNB, MON, and POL across multiple networks including Ethereum, Arbitrum, OP, Monad, Polygon, Base, and Solana.

$TRADE staking launches on Integra Layer with BNB Chain support alongside Polygon and Ethereum, allowing users to earn IRL XP with locked pools until IRL TGE.

GMX announces multichain scaling expansion to BNB Chain in Q4, alongside deployments to Base, Ethereum Mainnet, and other chains.

DeFi Festival Batch 1 runs on BNB Chain with $300K in $SOLV token rewards available through Binance Wallet for the next 31 days, featuring BTC-denominated yields.

BlackRock's BUIDL fund joins BNB Chain and becomes Binance collateral.

BNB Abu Dhabi hackathon event took place with Spartan Executive Director Marwan Chahboun serving as a judge.

Codatta, an AI layer that converts human knowledge into onchain data assets, uses Chainlink CCIP to transfer XNY tokens across Base and BNB Chain.

Binance suspends employee for using official X account to promote BNB Chain token. MetaMask now routes swap and bridge paths through Across Protocol, enabling fast cross-chain liquidity to BNB Chain, Ethereum, Solana, Base, Optimism and other networks.

Equilibria launches satUSD+ integration with River Protocol's yield mechanics on BNB Chain, featuring boosted APY above base rate and 5x River Points incentives for deposits.

Binance founder CZ now concentrates more attention on BNB Chain ecosystem, focusing on supporting the development of various related projects.

RealGo deploys on BNB Chain as a GameFi project.

BNB Chain reduces block time from 3s to 1.5s and 0.75s, with plans to reach 0.45s soon, while opBNB targets 0.25s block time as part of VM and chain-level performance improvements.

Fluid announces Venus X, a money market and DEX built on BNB Chain in collaboration with Venus Protocol.

Rosentica builds IP RWA infrastructure on BNB Chain for tokenizing cultural and creative assets with real-world royalty yields, starting with Anime IP universe.

A new venture launches led by dingalingts, the architect behind PancakeSwap.

1inch Swap API integrates Ondo Global Markets assets on BNB Chain, enabling swaps from any token into 100+ tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs using intent-based execution and solver-driven pricing.

RealGo, a location-based AR meme game with 50,000+ registered players, officially supports BNB Chain and launches a $15,000 APEPE airdrop campaign running December 5-15.

BNB Chain backs Beyond, a cross-chain bridge project for the Bitcoin ecosystem that connects Bitcoin to 140+ blockchains, alongside Animoca and BitGo.

First Digital demonstrates agentic payments functionality live on BNB Chain at BBW, according to CEO Vincent Chok.

BNB Chain leads all chains with 57.6M active addresses for fourth consecutive month, ahead of Solana (43.7M) and Near (42.1M). Market cap increases by $8.3B (+4.1%) in weekly rebound.

Trust Wallet launches "Predictions" tab integrating on-chain prediction markets powered by Myriad Markets on BNB Chain, providing 200M+ users access to prediction market trading with no KYC requirements. $TOKEN launches AIGen Studio enabling one-click AI-generated art minting as NFTs on BNB Chain.

CZ unveils Predict .fun, a BNB Chain-native prediction market backed by YZI Labs and built by a former Binance employee, offering yield earning on active predictions and targeting competition with Kalshi and Polymarket.

BlackRock's BUIDL token crosses $500M on BNB Chain. Arkham Swap launches with support for trading tokens on BNB Chain alongside Ethereum, Base, Polygon, and Optimism.

DeFi protocol Fluid offers joint venture partnership to Venus on BNB Chain with 50:50 revenue split, after achieving $1.3B TVL through similar collaboration with Jupiter on Solana.

BNB Chain launched the Fermi hardfork. RWA value doubled over the past 30 days to reach $1.6B.

Prediction market platform 42 partners with BNB Chain, YZI Labs, and EASY Residency to launch bonding curve-based trading of real-world outcomes, announced at Binance Blockchain Week.

BNB Chain leads in active addresses across EVM chains over the past week and month. BNB token integrates with top UAE banks and gains adoption in Bhutan, with the token outperforming BTC and ETH.

Prediction market Predict, backed by YZI Labs, builds on BNB Chain as projects migrate from Blast ecosystem.

BChat, with 1M+ users, expands to BNB Chain alongside Solana for cross-chain privacy functionality.

BNB Chain runs $1M DeFi Festival featuring yield farming strategies with SolvBTC, BTCB and lista_dao. TokenFi launches AIGen Studio platform for AI-powered NFT creation and instant minting on BNB Chain.

BNB Chain partners on BNB Hack: Abu Dhabi, a 48-hour hackathon with $160K prize pool for top 3 teams plus ecosystem support and MVB program fast-track interviews.

BNB Chain records 48 donation transactions, mostly small amounts, showing widespread retail adoption in the Asian region.

PancakeSwap trading volume drops from $102B in October to $71B in November, down 30%, reflecting weakening in the ecosystem amid broader market softness.

EDEL launches on Stargate platform enabling cross-chain movement between Ethereum, Base and BNB Chain with zero slippage via LayerZero OFT standard.

thirdweb joins BNB Chain Kickstart Program as official Service Provider, offering builders 3 free months of their $99/month Growth plan to launch on BNB Chain.

A fresh wallet sends $217K worth of airdropped tokens ($马到成功) to CZ on BNB Chain.

Weekly transaction metrics show BNB Chain and Base closing the throughput gap with Solana in pure transaction volume, with Solana maintaining the lead.

Bridging promotion extended through December 31, 2025, offering zero gas and zero fees for USDC bridging via cBridge with FDUSD rebate rewards.

RWA capital flows show BNB Chain leading with $854M in 30-day inflows (highest across all chains) and $1.6B in yearly inflows. Global University Hackathon with QuackAI launches featuring Imperial College participation.

Lute trading platform launches BNB Chain (BSC) trading in public beta with cross-chain transaction capabilities.

Active hiring drive underway for event coordinators, web3 marketers, business developers targeting institutional adoption, and cross-functional regional leads with immediate interview process for qualified candidates.

Nina Rong joins BNB Chain from Arbitrum APAC leadership position to drive growth.

BNB Chain records 11.6M active addresses with 4% growth and 98.9M transactions in the past week, leading EVM chains in active user count.

VanEck eyes a BNB ETF.

THENA integrates Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) for verifiable data, interoperability, privacy, and compliance infrastructure on BNB Chain.

Lista DAO integrates Centrifuge-powered tokenized U.S. Treasuries and AAA CLOs on BNB Chain, providing DeFi users access to real-world asset products.

Incentra campaign powered by Brevis launches with USDT-ynRWAx liquidity pools on PancakeSwap for yield generation. World of Dypians wins BNB Chain DAU Incentive grant with 895k daily active users and 174M on-chain transactions.

New Growth Executive Director appointed to BNB Chain, plans to create developer support programs connecting projects to ecosystem's 695 million addresses and 2 million+ daily users.