Original | Odaily Planet Daily ( @OdailyChina )
Author | Asher ( @Asher_0210 )
CZ frequently speaks out, and the BNB Chain craze is on the rise again
To trace the recent wave of BNB Chain craze, TST (Test Token) is undoubtedly the key. Initially, TST was just a test coin for demonstrating Meme on the Four platform, but CZ mentioned TST token-related content many times on the X platform, which aroused market attention and promoted the explosive growth of TST. After listing on Binance, TST rose more than 100 times in 3 days, and its market value reached a maximum of US$500 million.
With CZ announcing that BNB Chain has been imprisoned for too long, its time to untie the shackles and adjusting its attitude towards Meme coins, BNB Chain has indeed been injected with a shot in the arm. According to DefiLama data , in the second week of February, BNB Chains transaction volume surged by nearly 50% to nearly $29.5 billion, surpassing Solana ($26.3 billion), Ethereum ($14.5 billion), and Base ($6.8 billion), ranking first.
Weekly transaction volume data of each public chain
Among them, the most eye-catching one is undoubtedly PancakeSwap. According to data on February 13, PancakeSwap is the DEX with the highest trading volume in the past 24 hours and the past 7 days, with a trading volume of 20 billion US dollars in the past 7 days and 3 billion US dollars in the past 24 hours. Various data show that users are gradually shifting their focus from Solana, Ethereum, Base and other ecosystems to BNB Chain, and BNB Chain is becoming a new focus of attention.
BNB Chain is moving forward steadily and promoting its own development
Talking about Meme alone is obviously not enough for the underlying public chain that is more long-term and cross-cycle.
Judging from the comprehensive data, BNB Chain has never stopped its development and has always moved forward steadily.
According to Messaris BNB Chain report for the fourth quarter of 2024, the total value locked (TVL) of the BNB Chain ecosystem DeFi increased from US$4.85 billion in the third quarter to US$5.35 billion, a month-on-month increase of more than 10%.
Messari BNB Chain report data for the fourth quarter of 2024
In addition, the BNB Chain ecosystems stablecoin market value increased by 50% year-on-year, from US$4.55 billion to US$6.84 billion. According to DefiLama data , the current stablecoin market value is nearly US$7 billion, ranking fourth, second only to Ethereum ($121.12 billion), Tron ($63.14 billion) and Solana ($11.59 billion).
On-chain stablecoin data
These DeFi-related indicators all show the huge potential and broad growth space of BNB Chain. We are more concerned about the future growth points and competitive advantages of L1 - as on-chain transactions gradually become the core trend of this round of bull market, will BNB Chain have the stamina to attract more developers and users, thereby enhancing the competitiveness and activity of the platform?
On February 11, BNB Chain released its 2025 technology roadmap . Below, Odaily Planet Daily will deeply interpret BNB Chain’s 2025 development roadmap and specifically how to comprehensively upgrade its infrastructure and application ecology.
BNB Chain’s competitive advantages and ecological growth drivers
BNB Chains goal in technology upgrade is to establish a more efficient, safer, and easier-to-use development and user ecosystem, and promote a virtuous cycle of competitive advantage and ecological growth. The following specific directions are all aimed at achieving this ultimate goal:
By introducing sub-second transaction speeds, BNB Chain has reduced the block generation time from 3 seconds to less than 1 second and maintained the processing capacity of 100 million transactions per day. This technological advancement not only allows developers to accelerate the development of decentralized applications on a more stable and efficient network, but also greatly improves the user experience. Users will have smoother transactions in DeFi and AI applications, and latency issues will almost disappear, especially in high-frequency trading scenarios like Meme, where operations become more immediate and responsive.
For developers, BNB Chain is like a blockchain development treasure box, which not only contains simple and easy-to-use programming toolkits (SDK) and interfaces (API), but also organizes the resources needed for development into categories. Both novices and veterans can quickly find what they need. In addition, BNB Chain will also introduce an AI-driven development tool - BNB Chain AI Code Copilot. This intelligent tool is like a capable assistant for developers, automatically helping to identify code problems and provide solutions, allowing developers to easily handle complex blockchain projects.
In terms of user experience, the introduction of the gas-free transaction mechanism has lowered the threshold for users to participate. Users can not only pay gas fees with any BEP-20 token (not just BNB or stablecoins), but can even achieve a gas-free mode through organizational sponsorship (similar to SUI and Aptos). This innovation makes decentralized applications easier to use and may also promote the development of Web3 subscription services and drive more users to join the ecosystem.
In terms of security, BNB Chain has implemented a MEV protection mechanism. In cooperation with mainstream wallets, users can choose automated or manual MEV protection, and can also customize protection plans according to their needs to provide a safer environment for DeFi transactions. In addition, BNB Chain has also built a private transaction pool (Private Mempool) system to hide transaction information, avoid MEV abuse, and ensure the security of decentralized transactions.
The upgrade of the smart wallet is also a highlight. The new smart wallet supports the EIP-7702 standard, can realize batch transactions and multi-step operations (such as one-click decentralized transactions), and will add AI assistants in the future to help manage investment portfolios, assist transactions, and detect MEV. These upgrades will greatly enhance the users cryptocurrency experience, making it closer to traditional payment applications, while enhancing user stickiness.
It is conceivable that these innovations combined will create a safe, simple and efficient environment for developers and users. The system will be more scalable, and developers and users will continue to grow, forming a positive cycle.
In addition to technological innovation, we also take a look at BNB Chain’s growth strategy in the two hottest and most clear sectors: Meme and AI.
Meme Coin Ecosystem Supports BNB Chain Development
$4.4 million Meme Coin liquidity support plan
Although the survival of Meme is controversial in the market, its role in driving user growth cannot be underestimated. Taking TRUMP and MELANIA in the Solana ecosystem as examples, these celebrity Meme coins have successfully proved that Meme coins can attract a large number of new users: 46.5% of holders come from newly created coin holding addresses.
TRUMP/MELANIA coin holding address creation time pie chart
Based on the market trend of embracing new traffic, BNB Chain has launched a Meme coin liquidity support plan, with the first round of support funds reaching $4.4 million. The winning projects are in chronological order: BROCCOLI ( F3b ), BROCCOLI (714), SIREN, BANANA, TST, KOMA and BabyNerio. After reviewing all data and verifying the winners benchmarks, the first $200,000 in liquidity funds will support the above winning Meme projects. This part of the funds will be permanently retained in the liquidity pool and will not be withdrawn. In addition, the communitys expected weekly competition results will also be announced later today.
This event is the first round of the BNB Chain Meme coin incentive plan, and more incentive plans will be launched in the future based on community feedback. Binance founder CZ said on the X platform that if the first round is effective, the team may even extend the event time to further promote the development of the Meme coin ecosystem.
Prioritize Meme Coin transactions
In addition, the BNB Chain team is taking a series of technical optimization measures to better support Meme coin transactions, especially during peak traffic periods, by quickly summarizing the experience from the impromptu stress test of the BROCCOLI Universe. Since Meme coin transactions are extremely sensitive to price fluctuations, timely inclusion of transactions in blocks is crucial. To meet this challenge, the BNB Chain team ensures that transactions that interact with time-sensitive contracts (such as Meme coin transactions) are given higher priority during high traffic periods by prioritizing them.
Specifically, BNB Chain will introduce a short waiting period before the block is sealed, allowing validators to collect more bids within the 3-second block window. This adjustment will not only help increase the chances of including the best bid, but also improve the overall block construction performance of the network during peak hours. Through this move, BNB Chain aims to improve the processing efficiency of Meme coin transactions and ensure that users can get a better trading experience even during high traffic periods.
Users who are interested in “BROCCOLIs” have also quickly learned recently that many major third-party meme tools such as GMGN and chain.fm already support BNB Chain.
AI First Outline
Driving AI innovation through multi-chain infrastructure
AI First is the theme of BNB Chains ecological development in 2025. By prioritizing AI integration, BNB Chain enables developers, startups, and enterprises to seamlessly innovate and scale within the Web3 space. BNB Chains multi-chain strategy is the core of its ecosystem, including BNB Smart Chain (BSC), the foundation for AI development, opBNB, the scalability layer for AI computing, and BNB Greenfield, which enables data ownership and tokenization.
The AI ecosystem on BNB Chain is becoming more and more powerful. Multiple practical applications have been implemented and closely cooperated to form a complete product matrix. At the bottom layer, Web3 projects such as DIN and Alaya AI provide massive data to help train AI models; at the middle layer, ChainGPT seamlessly connects blockchain and AI to promote the deep integration of the two. In application development, MyShell integrates hundreds of AI interfaces to support development in different fields and depths. In addition, in the field of toC applications, BNB Chain has also made considerable breakthroughs: NFP uses AI to generate user-generated content (UGC), and Xterios Palio AI adds emotions to NPCs in the game, changing the interactive experience of the game; MEET48 has pioneered a new field of idol entertainment through Web3 technology and promoted the development of the entire industry.
BNB Chain AI Ecosystem
BNB AI Hackathon
On February 12, BNB Chain announced the BNB AI Hackathon, which focuses on AI and has no deadline or fixed track. Excellent projects can win $10,000 in cash rewards and $50,000 in Kickstart funds, and have the opportunity to join the BNB Incubation Alliance (BIA) and MVB Accelerator Program. This event provides a display platform for AI innovation projects and demonstrates BNB Chains strategic layout in the field of AI.
Sarah, the head of BNB Chain BD, explained in an interview with Odaily Planet Daily that top capitals such as YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs), Dragonfly, and Pentara in BIA will provide full-process support to high-quality projects that need resources. At present, some interesting projects have emerged in the fields of AI+DeFi, AI+Gaming, and AI+Data. In addition, the BNB Chain Incubation Alliance recently sponsored the EthDenver event.
New opportunities under the trend of on-chain transactions
Currently, according to Nansen data, the number of monthly active addresses of BNB Chain has exceeded 19 million, surpassing Base and ranking second. On the one hand, the meme craze caused by BNB Chain has attracted a large amount of retail funds and community discussions for its ecology. While the number of active addresses has increased, it has also driven a surge in gas fees and transaction volume on the chain; on the other hand, projects such as PancakeSwap and Thena have introduced innovative mechanisms such as MEV protection and liquidity incentives to make users more like and more convenient to interact in the BNB Chain ecology, increasing the stickiness of the ecology.
Ranking of monthly active addresses of each public chain
For users on the chain, the wealth effect is a key indicator, and the TST wave has made a good start for the BNB Chain ecosystem. As this wave of enthusiasm progresses, BNB Chain has quickly become the focus of community discussion, attracting more users and developers to participate.
At the same time, BNB Chain has undergone a large-scale technical upgrade, lowering the threshold for developers and significantly improving the user experience. These improvements have made it easier for more people to enter this ecosystem, driving the rapid growth of user volume and developer activity.
In terms of ecology, BNB Chain is laying the foundation for the next billion users of the Web3 ecosystem by promoting AI strategies and Meme support plans. These initiatives have enabled BNB Chain to stand out in the multi-chain competition and become an important force for industry innovation.
