🟨 FUTURE OF BINANCE SMART CHAIN
Infrastructure & Performance: Scaling into 2025 and Beyond
Significant Mid‑2025 Upgrades
In early 2025, BNB Chain deployed two major hard forks—Lorentz and Maxwell—slashing block times from 3 s to 0.75 s and reducing finality from 7.5 s to 1.875 s. Network bandwidth doubled to 100 million gas/sec, enabling peaks of 17.6 million daily transactions and around $9.3 billion in daily trading volume. Median gas costs fell to just $0.01, while malicious MEV attacks were reduced by 95% .
Expanding Capacity & Throughput
In the latter half of 2025, BNB Chain aims to boost block gas limits by 10x (to 1 billion), supporting up to 5,000 DEX swaps per second. New infrastructure components include a Rust-based client for improved performance, Super Instructions to help optimize complex smart contract tasks, and StateDB enhancements to speed up data access and execution .
Looking Ahead: Next‑Gen BNB Chain (2026+)
The vision extends toward building an entirely new L1 with:
Finality under 150 milliseconds
20,000+ TPS for complex on‑chain operations
Parallel virtual machine architecture (beyond the EVM)
Native privacy features and UX enhancements like smart wallets, key rotation, and simplified onboarding .
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Enhanced Utility: AI, Smart Wallets & Gas Models
User Experience: Gasless for All
Building on Megafuel (2024), which enabled stablecoin‑based gasless transactions for millions, BNB Chain plans to broaden this to all types of token transactions—including BEP‑20—using paymaster solutions compatible with Ethereum’s EIP‑7702 standard .
Smart Wallet Features
These include improved key management, batch transactions (removing the approve‑first requirement), and full gas sponsorship—all aimed at simplifying user interactions. Integration of AI agents to help with trading, spending, or dApp usage is also on the roadmap .
AI‑Driven Ecosystem
BNB Chain is positioning itself as an AI‑first blockchain.