$BNB BNB (Binance Coin) has seen significant developments in 2025. Its native blockchain, BNB Smart Chain, recently implemented the Maxwell Hard Fork (June 30, 2025), halving block times to ~0.75 seconds and reducing finality time to ~1.875 seconds, enhancing scalability and speed for DeFi and GameFi. This follows earlier 2025 upgrades like Pascal and Lorentz.

The BNB Chain 2025 roadmap emphasizes sub-second transaction speeds, expanded gasless transactions, and deeper AI integration. Notably, Nano Labs Ltd recently acquired $50 million in BNB, with plans for up to $1 billion. Binance Alpha is also listing new AI tokens....