What is happening now in the BNB Chain ecosystem.
✅ What is going well / recent advancements
1️⃣ TVL (Total Value Locked) on the rise
The value locked in BNB Chain has grown significantly. It is reported that the TVL reached approximately USD 7.75 billion, which is a maximum in the last ~3.5 years.
Although the TVL in USD has had ups and downs, when measured in $BNB (the native token), there has also been growth: in Q1 of 2025, the TVL measured in BNB increased by ~14.7%.
2️⃣ Very high user activity
Daily active addresses are rising; ~4.2 million daily active addresses are reported in some recent reports.
opBNB, the layer 2 of BNB Chain, has a fairly high number of daily active users (several million) and is growing.
Weekly transactions have also increased (for example reports of ~85 million) and growing volume has been reached in DEXs.
3️⃣ Cost reduction / low fees
Median transaction fees have dropped significantly; it is mentioned that they are at levels of USD 0.0085 as a median in some metrics.
Additionally, technical improvements such as the hard fork Pascal, improvements in smart contract wallets, better gas mechanisms, have been implemented.
4️⃣ Multichain strategy / “One BNB”
The “One BNB” approach has been reinforced, integrating BSC (BNB Smart Chain), opBNB, and Greenfield to cover different needs: smart contracts, scalability, data storage, etc.
Greenfield has launched improvements, has been used for important data storage, middleware, support for public datasets, etc.
5️⃣ Improvements in security
A reduction in security incidents and associated economic losses is reported: losses from vulnerabilities dropped from ~$162 million in 2023 to ~$53 million in 2024.
Initiatives such as BNB Good Will Alliance were created to tackle issues like sandwich attacks.
🔭 Outlook / where it seems to be heading
🔶 More technical improvements: continue with forks, improvements in EVM, EVM parallelization, gas abstraction, user experience improvements.
🔶 Integration with AI and data: Greenfield is one of the major bets for storage, data, infrastructure related to AI. It seems that BNB Chain also wants to position itself as a platform for applications that require intensive data storage, not just smart contracts.
🔶 More institutional adoption: with the growth of financial metrics, DEX volume, etc., greater interest from institutional investors.
🔶 Improvements in usability: lower fees, more convenient wallets, training/education for developers (e.g., collaboration with HackQuest for learning tracks)
🔶 More bridges / interoperability: better connections with other blockchains, improving secure bridges, synchronizing data between chains, etc.
