what's BNB Chain?
BNB Chain is a high-performance blockchain ecosystem designed for decentralized applications, combining the capabilities of the original Binance Chain and Binance Smart Chain. It operates as a dual-chain architecture where the Beacon Chain handles validation and governance, while the Smart Chain enables EVM-compatible smart contracts, allowing seamless deployment of Ethereum-based dApps with lower fees and faster transactions. The network uses a Proof-of-Staked-Authority (PoSA) consensus mechanism, blending delegated proof-of-stake with authority nodes for scalability and security. BNB, the native token, powers transaction fees, staking, and governance, while supporting cross-chain interoperability through bridges like opBNB for Layer 2 scaling. BNB Chain fosters a vibrant DeFi, NFT, and GameFi ecosystem, with tools for developers to build and launch projects efficiently. Its community-driven governance ensures ongoing upgrades, such as Greenfield for decentralized storage, positioning it as a foundational layer for Web3 innovation.
BNB Chain adds Pendle DeFi products, user incentives, AI agents, and LayerZero bridging.
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x.com/bnbchainHosts Opinion Labs, a decentralized prediction exchange platform operating on the chain.
Venus Flux allocated $1M in launch rewards on BNB Chain.
Market cap reached $150.1 billion.
Private transfers are now live on BNB Chain with zBNB, the Privacy-Enabled BNB.
Launches 42space on 2026-02-26, introducing event markets. Raised $3.5M seed funding from YZi Labs and Coinbase Ventures.
Achieved 133% year-over-year stablecoin growth, fastest among all chains.
Puffpaw launched on BNB Chain, bringing consumer hardware devices onchain with over 190,000 device connections recorded and expansion into more than 4,000 stores across 8 countries.
Experienced 1 network outage in the past five years (as of February 2026).
Integrated with deBridge Finance to enable cross-chain swaps alongside Solana, Base, and 22+ other chains through Anchorage Porto.
Integrated MyEtherWallet with Ondo Finance for Invesco QQQ tokenized stocks and ETFs, supporting assets across Ethereum and Solana.
Added on-chain asset management functionality.
Integrated drop-in OpenClaw support.
Integrated with TRON on the X402 standard.
Supports GMX perpetual trading of CC/USD and MET/USD pairs with up to 25x leverage, alongside Ethereum Mainnet, Arbitrum, and Base.
OVERTAKE is a gaming/metaverse project built on BNB Chain.
Registered agents on ERC-8004, implementing an on-chain identity feature.
Reached $2.1B RWA market cap, representing 20% of total on-chain RWA value and ranking second.
Closed 2025 at $118.9B market cap, up 17.8% year-over-year, ranking as the 3rd-largest crypto asset.
Eowynchen continues to work in the BNB Chain ecosystem.
Reduced gas fees by 20x from 1 Gwei to 0.05 Gwei since the start of 2025, bringing transaction costs down to approximately $0.005 per transaction.
Ranks 4th by fees generated across all blockchain networks over the past 30 days.
Ledger integrated OKX DEX into its Wallet app with support for token swaps on BNB Chain alongside five other networks (Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Polygon).
Offers $100,000 in incentives for developing OpenClaw solutions on BNB Chain.
Asseto Finance's CASH+ integrated Chainlink CCIP for native transfers between BNB Chain, Ethereum, Polygon, Robinhood Chain, and Solana across 12 implementations.
Achieved 38% max APY for PT-srUSDe on BNB Chain through Pendle.
Hosts zero fee carnival promotion with World Liberty Financial's USD1 stablecoin, issued on BNB Chain.
Processed 148,000 transactions via Ocash's private rails using ZK proofs on BNB Chain (BSC), Ethereum, and Base.
Launched Pendle PT-srUSDe (Apr 2026) and PT-USDe (May 2026) on Lista DAO with borrow rates as low as 0.71%. Enabled cross-chain support for PT-srUSDe as collateral.
Launched a check-in incentive program through Binance Wallet extension requiring at least $10 or 0.01 BNB balance and 5 consecutive daily check-ins, offering 300 XP per check-in, an Early Adopter Badge with 200,000 XP, and for new users a Streak Chaser badge with an additional 50,000 XP.
Deployed 21,000+ AI Agents using ERC-8004 standard on BNB Chain in February 2026, alongside Ethereum and Solana, as part of the AINFT (Bank of AI) platform supporting AI agent financial operations and NFT-based AI interactions.
Launched new AI Agent standard.
Integrated with LayerZero to enable seamless bridging of IRYS tokens between Irys mainnet, Ethereum, and BNB Chain.
Completed the opBNB Fourier hard fork, reducing block time to 250ms.
Included in the NX8 digital token index alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, TRON, Hyperliquid, Avalanche, and Sui, released through a partnership between Nansen and OpenDelta.
Integrated with Travala to enable U stablecoin deposits for booking flights, hotels, and activities with zero fees on the platform.
Processed 111.1 million transactions over the past week, a 2% decrease from the previous week, with daily transactions frequently exceeding 17 million.
Launched Venus Flux Beta on 2026-02-04, reaching $100M Total Market Size on 2026-02-26.
Experienced a 10% decline in 30-day stablecoin economic activity volume (excluding bot activity, HFT, and wash trading) as of January 30, 2026.
Falcon Finance launched a $50 million ecosystem fund on BNB Chain to back builders, offering 50% capital and 50% vested $FF tokens along with distribution, advisory, and institutional introductions.
Active addresses tripled over the 18-month period ending January 2026.
Experienced a security incident on 2026-01-28 at 19:00 UTC affecting Perp DEX deployment, where a compromised team member device led to an unauthorized Vault Proxy upgrade via malicious coding IDE extension.
Received $624 million in stablecoin inflows in the 24-hour period ending approximately January 27, 2026.
Prediction markets on BNB Chain surpassed $20 billion in cumulative trading volume.
ETH-BNB and ETH-BTCB liquidity pools are available on KyberNetwork's FairFlow on BNB Chain.
Coinmarketcap account was hacked, prompting security investigation and caution advisory for social media content.
Circle deployed USYC (tokenized Treasury product) on BNB Chain.
Supports trading of the new XAUT/USD market on GMX with up to 25x leverage, alongside Arbitrum, Ethereum, Base, Solana, and Avalanche.
Weekly DEX volume was overtaken by Base for the first time, with BNB Chain recording lower than $16.5 billion in weekly DEX trades.
Co-hosted "Good Vibes Only: OpenClaw Edition" hackathon with DoraHacks, received project submissions.
Chainlink SVR (Searcher Value Recapture) is now live on BNB Chain as part of a multi-chain expansion following Chainlink's acquisition of Atlas protocol.
Integrated with Moca Network's MocaProof identity verification system, allowing BNB holders to verify token holdings using cryptographic proofs and unlock future rewards.
Reached 100,000 registered users and $3M+ trading volume.
Predict on BNB Chain reached an all-time high TVL of $23,608,532 with $14,155,800 actively earning yield on Venus.
Predict on BNB Chain generated $448,581,749 in notional volume across 1,149,342 bets from 83,474 users in its first month.
Reached $6.5 million in institutional deposits in Solv Protocol's BTC-backed Tokenized RWA Vault deployed on BNB Chain in collaboration with Binance.
Integrated with LimeWire Network, which launched file-sharing and storage products on BNB Chain.
Mentioned as one of multiple supported chains for Surgexyz token launchpad going live in the week of January 19-25, 2026, alongside Solana and Base.
Hosts Cobot bonding sale with tier-based access starting at 11:00 AM UTC on 2026-01-19, targeting $400k total raise at $0.00056 starting price.
Donated an undisclosed amount to onchain investigator ZachXBT, ranking among his top donors alongside other protocols and entities.
Xterio completes migration to BNB Chain; bridge for old Xterio Chain sunsets February 17, 2026.
FAR Labs completed migration from Polygon, hosts FAR token ecosystem.
Completed the 34th quarterly BNB burn, removing 1,371,803.77 BNB from supply (approximately $1.28B in value at time of burn) in Q1 2026.
Expanding collaboration with Brevis and partnering with 0xbow to launch an Intelligent Privacy Pool on BNB Chain in Q1 2026, featuring ZK-based eligibility checks via the Brevis ZK Data Coprocessor and zkTLS for KYC binding.
Daily active users increased by 7.1% week-over-week.
The BOOK token became available on BNB Chain, enabled through Wormhole NTT integration.
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.
Implemented gasless transactions for stablecoins in 2025
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.
Achieved daily DEX volume of $2.4B in Q3 2025, representing a 29.6% quarter-over-quarter increase.