BNB Chain 5th Anniversary: 4.7M Daily Users, 10x Capacity, Sub-150ms Finality & $319B DEX Volume

On its fifth anniversary, BNB Chain reported material operational gains, with daily active users surpassing 4.7 million and BSC averaging 1.12 million DAUs while opBNB hit new highs. The protocol-level Maxwell and Lorentz hard fork reduced block confirmation to 0.75 seconds and drove the minimum Gas fee down to $0.001, improving on-chain throughput and accessibility. Liquidity and trading metrics strengthened, with cumulative DEX trading volume at $319.4 billion and a daily peak of $13.3 billion; the stablecoin ecosystem exceeded $11 billion market cap and peak TVL reached $14 billion. The network now hosts over 5,000 projects and 611 million independent BSC addresses. BNB Chain also announced upcoming upgrades targeting a 10x capacity expansion (10G gas limit), sub-150ms finality and 20,000 TPS, plus enhanced native multisig and identity mechanisms.