what's bnb?
BNB Chain is a high-performance blockchain ecosystem built by Binance for scalability and low-cost transactions, powering decentralized applications through its dual-chain architecture of Beacon and Smart Chains. It supports a wide range of DeFi, NFTs, and gaming projects with seamless interoperability and EVM compatibility. The platform emphasizes community governance and developer tools to foster innovation in Web3.
BNB Chain integrated Allscale for payments, recorded $518M stablecoin inflow, and 106M+ transactions.
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Integrated with Allscale to enable stablecoin wallet funding, cashback earning, and restaurant payments with fast settlement on BNB Chain.
Processed 106M+ transactions on BNB Chain during the week ending April 13, 2026.
Recorded $11.7B+ in trading volume on BNB Chain during the week ending April 13, 2026.
Processed 10% of total BNB Chain volume through Genius Terminal platform since its January 2026 launch.
Received $518M stablecoin supply inflows in 24 hours ending on 2026-04-14, largest among all chains.
Raised $33.0M in capital during Q1 2026 across ecosystem projects.
Reached $7.6B TVL on BNB Chain by April 13, 2026, remaining the second-largest network after Ethereum.
Integration with Chainflip protocol is scheduled to be added soon, enabling cross-chain swaps involving BNB.
Eesee (ESE token) is migrating from Ethereum to BNB Chain with a 45-day migration window and 1:1 conversion ratio, powered by Squid Router bridge.
Recorded 4,369 daily active addresses on BNB Chain, representing 31% of total address activity on Rango Exchange.
INFINIT launched the Prompt-to-DeFi Strategist Challenge on BNB Chain - a competitive program rewarding users for creating innovative yield strategies.
Integrated with Bubblemaps to provide real-time whale, sniper, and insider tracking for BNB tokens, featuring over 1 billion labels and live onchain data visualization.
Reached record market cap of $16.6 billion for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) on BNB Chain, more than doubling year-over-year.
Achieved 4.5 million average daily active users in Q1 2026, ranking first among Layer 1 chains, and 3.9M+ average daily active users during week ending April 13, 2026.
Surpassed by CL (Hyperliquid HIP-3) in global perpetuals open interest, now ranking 7th or lower compared to CL's 6th position at $662.48M.
Led all chains in number of public token sales over the past year with 251 sales, ahead of Ethereum (146) and Solana (115).
Reached 322.9 million on-chain holders, the highest among major crypto assets.
Charges zero fees for transactions involving U, USDC, and USD1 tokens on BNB Chain.
Generated approximately $270M in revenue during Q1 2026.
Experienced a 100% week-over-week increase in whale transactions ($100K or more) for DAI on BNB chain.
AnomaPay launches public beta on BNB Chain with ZK-shielded payments and 15-second proving times, demonstrates at SheFi Summit on 2026-04-13.
Zero-fee USD1 onramping becomes available on BNB Chain through MoonPay Agents worldwide.
Included as one of eight supported networks (ETH, SOL, Tron, TON, BNB, Arbitrum, Optimism, and Polygon) for zero-fee USDT onramping through MoonPay Agents worldwide.
Trading at approximately $68,540 with a +2.0% gain on April 1, 2026, amid broader market recovery.
Trades at $617, up 1% in 24 hours as of April 1st, 2026.
Mentioned in a list of upcoming AI token catalysts alongside VIRTUAL's BNB Chain expansion planned for Q2 2026, highlighting BNB's role as a platform for AI-related projects.
Accounts for over 24% of TVF on Infinit Labs platform.
Held a developer roadshow event at Harvard University with yzilabs on March 31, 2026.
BNB Beacon Chain Token Recovery Tool sunsets in phases, offering 7-day SLA for Phase 1 requests until 2026-04-30, then shifts to slower batch processing. Osaka/Mendel Hard Fork scheduled for 2026-04-28 requires mandatory node update.
BNB/EUR margin trading pair launched on Kraken.
Binance Wallet integrates Predict.fun prediction market with gas fee coverage for trades and settlements on BNB Smart Chain.
Staking market cap has been surpassed by Hyperliquid as of March 30, 2026.
Price increased from approximately $800 to over $1,300.
Chainlink secures 69%+ market share on BNB Chain representing over $2.4 billion in value.
BNB Chain has reached nearly 800 million cumulative onchain addresses.
Hosted a Dev Roadshow event at NYU focusing on onchain use cases for student builders, with the next stop scheduled for UPenn on March 27-28, 2026.
Integrated $RIVER token cross-chain movement with BNB Chain via Stargate/LayerZero bridge during Q1 2026, alongside Ethereum and Base.
Featured in Nansen's weekly Smart Money onchain roundup highlighting that BNB chain experienced strong activity.
Integrated XAUT (Tether Gold) and tokenized stocks/ETFs distribution on BNB Chain, with Binance support and LayerZero for cross-chain movement.
Priced at $589, down 5% in the last 24 hours.
Holds 53% combined market share with Solana in the tokenized stocks sector as of 2026-03-26.
Achieves lending rates exceeding 10% on USDT on the BNB chain via Fluid protocol.
Repaid approximately $70M of USR-related debt on BNB Chain after the Resolv incident.
Launches investor relations portal with Blockworks IR, featuring on-chain analytics, quarterly reports, and ecosystem metrics as an early customer.
Declined -32% in Q1 2026.
integrated as a partner with RealGo, a GameFi project building at the intersection of AR, AI, and Web3
Reached 58,004 on-chain AI agent deployments on BNB Chain, the highest among all chains.
Generated over $3 million in agent-to-agent revenue excluding trading activity.
Generated $1.4 million in monthly protocol fees from agent activity.
Achieved approximately $480 million in cumulative agent GDP.
Holds $3.2B RWA TVL on BNB Chain, ranking #2, up 35% over 30 days ending March 23, 2026, and added $1B RWA TVL in a quarter.
Holds 21% of the tokenized stocks market, growing 36% over 30 days ending March 26, 2026.
ZYPTO token is being added to BNB Chain as part of a multichain expansion by Zypto.
Integrated with Fluid infrastructure for RWA lending and stablecoin routing across EVM, Solana, and BNB networks.
Partnered with Trust Wallet to expand reach in the BNB Chain ecosystem through Predict.fun integration.
Partnered with Tilted to integrate real-time data layer infrastructure including tagging, clipping, and streaming tools for the Landlord on-chain strategy game on BNB Chain.
Landlord game on BNB Chain has reached 1.2M+ users.
Renaiss continues building on BNB Chain after surpassing $5 million in volume.
Listed as a perpetual trading pair with 10x leverage on Phoenix exchange.
Hosts between 100,000 and 120,000 total AI agents, including BNB-native standards.
Launched AI agent infrastructure on testnet, integrating PancakeSwap and Venus for DeFi strategy execution on BNB Chain. Activated ERC-8004 standard for AI agent escrow, reputation, and settlement, alongside ERC-8183, featuring BNB Town by Unibase AI.
Distributed 24 BNB in prizes to OpenClaw contest winners plus 17 BNB in nominations, with rewards processed within two weeks from 2026-04-06. Flap holds X Space on 2026-03-19 at 1PM UTC discussing autonomous AI agents and agentic commerce on BNB Chain; OpenClaw skill enables automated token deployment from text prompts.
Integrated with Travala to enable car rental bookings from 1,700+ suppliers at 50,000+ locations worldwide using BNB Chain.
A tracked whale ("Public Figure 58bro") holds a short position on BNB with 5x leverage showing +$125K unrealized profit and 201% ROI as of March 17, 2026.
Binance Open Interest surges 59% and approaches pre-crash levels.
XRP flipped BNB to reclaim the #4 spot with $93.4B market cap (BNB $92.7B) on March 17, 2026.
Trading at $680, up 2% in the 24-hour period ending on 2026-03-30.
Exploited Venus Protocol on BNB Chain via THE token manipulation, causing $2.15M bad debt and $5.07M extracted assets. Attacker converted 2,178 BNB, 20 BTC, and 1.466M CAKE into 2,257.3 ETH ($4.72M) and bridged to Ethereum on March 22, 2026.
hosts Opinion Labs, an eastern-focused prediction exchange, on BNB Chain
Listed as a supported chain for 1win Token's native deployment alongside Solana.
Generated $814.7K in 30-day revenue as an L1 blockchain, ranking 5th among top L1 blockchains by revenue.
Weekly commits on BNB Chain have decreased by approximately 85% since early 2025 according to GitHub data.
Moves prediction market stack to BNB Chain, launching Season 3 on 2026-03-12 with markets settling exclusively in USD1.
Handles approximately 40% of global stablecoin transactions by count, with 82% of stablecoin transfers under $1,000.
Trades at $642, 0% price change as of March 20, 2026.
Partners UMA for automated market resolutions on BNB Chain, powering Predict.fun's zero-fee on-chain prediction market Predict, processing over 100k monthly resolutions as of March 2026.
Ondo Global Markets launched tokenized stocks and ETFs across BNB Chain, Solana, and Ethereum, now supporting over 250 assets including 60+ newly added tokenized stocks, with BNB Chain real-world asset holders reaching an all-time high of 40,000.
Launched Venus Flux lending protocol on BNB Chain, reaching $280M TVL, and added fETH deposit and asBNB/BNB borrowing vaults.
Listed as a client on Kaito Studio's launch alongside 15 other projects including Base and Virtuals.
Included in OpenDelta's NX8 Layer-1 index, tracking eight major networks (BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB, TRX, HYPE, AVAX, SUI) with a rules-based methodology from GMCI.
Will be integrated as a collateral and borrowable asset on Chainflip Lending's native cross-chain lending market.
Integrated into L2BEAT's Interoperability Dashboard for tracking value movements between Ethereum ecosystem and BNB Chain.
BNB Chain is listed as one of six chains (alongside Ethereum, Solana, Sui, Arbitrum, and Base) sharing a USDC/USDT pool on Skate Chain's yield platform.
Leads Layer 1 blockchains with 5 million daily active users, up 10% over 30 days, contributing to 18 million total L1 daily active addresses.
A physically backed exchange-traded product (ETP) for BNB launched on Nasdaq Stockholm.
Experienced a 433% increase in whale activity for DAI on the BNB chain during the week ending January 23, 2026, compared to the previous week.
Generated $16.5B in weekly DEX volume, ranking third behind Base and Ethereum for the week ending January 22, 2026.
BNB Chain generated $1.2M in daily fees, overtaking Solana in 24-hour fee revenue.
Stablecoin inflows on BNB Chain surpassed Solana's inflows.
On-Chain Trade & Win Season 2 launched with a 200 BNB prize pool for wallet trading activity.
Partnering with Brevis and 0xbow to launch an "Intelligent Privacy Pool" privacy infrastructure scheduled for Q1 2026.
Grayscale registered for a BNB ETF in Delaware, indicating a potential filing may come soon.
Completed mainnet hardfork on opBNB on 2026-01-07, reducing block time from 500ms to 250ms.
Averaged 137.5 transactions per second in 2025, which is 8 times less than Solana's 1,100 TPS.
Kalshi adds support for BNB Chain.
Achieved $7.8B in DeFi TVL during Q3 2025, overtaking Tron for the #3 position.
Reached new all-time high stablecoin supply of $14.27 billion, with USDe and USDF leading growth.
Processed 13.3M daily transactions in Q3 2025, representing a 35.3% increase quarter-over-quarter.
Reached 2,145,216 daily active addresses (returning wallets) as of March 16, 2026, a decrease from 2.3M in Q3 2025.
BNB Chain leads all networks in active addresses for the fourth consecutive month.