In the latter half of 2025, BNB Chain is gearing up for a surge in on-chain activities by increasing its block gas limit to 1 G.
This adjustment, a tenfold rise from its current capacity, is anticipated to empower the network to manage high-volume operations, potentially executing up to 5,000 decentralized exchange (DEX) swaps per second.
BNB Chain’s Ambitious Move
As outlined in their official blog, BNB Chain’s upcoming upgrade aspires to reach the scale and speed of Nasdaq. The network targets processing over 20,000 transactions per second, encompassing complex on-chain activities like swaps, restaking, and yield strategies, to support high-density use cases.
To facilitate this capacity, BNB Chain will deploy a new Rust-based client tailored with BSC-specific features, utilizing Ethereum’s Reth as its core. This multi-threaded client aims to enhance memory handling, speed up node synchronization, and ensure high-performance execution with efficiency.
Additionally, BNB Chain intends to enhance smart contract execution with “Super Instructions,” streamlining multiple common functions into single commands to alleviate performance constraints, especially in DEX swaps and launchpad activities.
The network will also upgrade the StateDB layer, which connects the EVM and storage system, to boost state access speed and efficiency, addressing a segment that currently occupies about 30% of execution time on BSC.
These advancements are designed to minimize redundant state access and enhance cache performance, ensuring that BNB Chain can handle a larger dataset and user base as activity grows, while maintaining low latency for developers and users on the platform.
Celebrating BNB’s Eighth Anniversary
This week marked BNB’s eighth anniversary, showcasing over a 10,000-fold increase since its initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017, when it debuted on Ethereum before transitioning to the BNB Chain.
Initially priced at $0.15, BNB now trades at approximately $703, ranking as the fifth-largest cryptocurrency. Binance launched BNB to function as the native token of its ecosystem, later introducing the BNB Auto-Burn program to reduce supply by automatically adjusting burn amounts based on price and block metrics. This has decreased the total supply to approximately 139.28 million BNB, thereby enhancing its scarcity and value.
Meanwhile, BNB is witnessing a rise in institutional adoption, with several companies incorporating it into their corporate treasuries, including one with plans to hold $1 billion worth of the asset.
