Struggling to balance performance, cost, and user control, BNB Chain is presenting itself as one of the pioneering platforms driving technological advancements beyond traditional limits. As we enter 2025, this ecosystem is focused on enhancing user experience and is preparing for a wave of technical advancements in 2026.
The team stated that in the first half of 2025, the platform achieved notable improvements in technical performance. The block production time has been reduced to just 0.75 seconds, and transaction completion now takes only 1.875 seconds.
Thanks to these improvements, the network processed 12.4 million transactions and achieved an average transaction volume of $9.3 billion per day. Additionally, it set a record with 17.6 million transactions in a single day.
Average gas fees have been reduced to just $0.01, making BNB Chain one of the most cost-effective blockchain networks today. Notably, the platform also recorded a 95% reduction in harmful MEV activity, improving fairness in the on-chain experience.
These achievements are apparently just the beginning. The team is pursuing a broader vision: a next-generation blockchain infrastructure designed to compete directly with centralized exchanges (CEX) in terms of performance.
“To achieve our next goal of providing a CEX-like experience to serve millions of users, it is clear that our current architecture faces natural limits. This comes as there has been a wave of liquidity from centralized exchanges and traditional finance flowing on-chain, so we are aiming to build the infrastructure to handle it,” said the BNB Chain team.
The project is implementing a series of strategic innovations, including the development of a Rust-based client. It is also integrating 'super instructions' to optimize transaction processing and updating StateDB to improve scalability and data storage.
The ultimate goal is to make BNB Chain a blockchain 20 times more powerful than it is today. It aims to handle over 20,000 transactions per second (TPS) with a completion time of less than 150 milliseconds.
This capacity will be sufficient to support large-scale decentralized applications, ranging from Web3 games to complex financial platforms.
A particularly important milestone is BNB Chain's effort to build privacy natively into its core architecture. In a world where personal data is increasingly monitored, integrating privacy at the protocol level is a strategic move.
The project aims to serve over 200 million users, a figure that highlights ambitions beyond merely competing with existing blockchains.
