BNB Chain Weekly Ecosystem Report (Dec 11 - 17)

Another packed week on BNB Chain. From key metrics to ecosystem milestones, here’s your weekly snapshot—featuring the latest in DeFi, AI, Payments, DeSoc, and more. Dive into the top data, biggest updates, and the newest projects building onchain.

BNB Chain Key Data Highlights

• Average Daily Active Users (DAU):
  • BSC: 2,413,037 (Dec 11 - 17)
    • Source: Dune
  • opBNB: 1,646,596 (Dec 11 - 17)
    • Source: Dune
• Total Transactions:
  • BSC: 99,351,236 (Dec 11 - 17)
    • Source: BscScan
  • opBNB: 21,683,556 (Dec 11 - 17)
    • Source: opBNBScan
• Total Trading Volume:
  • The total trading volume is $32.5B (Dec 11 - 17)
    • Source: Dune
• Total Value Locked (TVL):
  • The TVL is $10.7B (Dec 17)
    • Source: Dune

Live Projects This Week

Please note that all the information in the table above is for informational purposes only and should not be considered financial advice. Please DYOR.

Ecosystem Updates

United Stables launches $U as a native stablecoin on BNB Chain

Issued by United Stables, $U will unify all major stablecoins into a single liquidity layer to enable greater capital efficiency and a smoother user experience across onchain use cases. Read more

BNB Payments Live for AWS Cloud Customers via Better Payment Network

Through BPN, businesses can pay for AWS services using BNB for real-time settlement, lower transaction costs, and a streamlined global payment experience. Read more

Latest X Spaces: End-of-Year AMA with CZ

CZ joined us for an end of year AMA to reflect on 2025, how the crypto landscape is evolving and what actually matters when you are building for the long term. Read more

State of BNB Chain Report by Messari

Messari published a report that highlighted Q3 as one BNB Chain’s strongest quarter, from ​​user activity and DeFi growth to infrastructure upgrades and MEV protection. Read more

Ondo Bridge now live on BNB Chain, powered by LayerZero

Ondo Bridge is now live on BNB Chain, supporting seamless transfers of 100+ tokenized stocks and ETFs to allow users to bridge onchain equities with real public market liquidity. Read more

0 Fee Carnival for USD1 & USDC: Extended till Dec 31Transfers for USD1 and USDC are still free on BNB Chain thanks to the extended 0 Fee Carnival. Move your stablecoins with no gas fees using supported wallets like Trust Wallet, SafePal, and Binance Web3 Wallet. Read more

API Migration Guide from BSCScan to BSCTrace

With BSCScan API support being deprecated and transitioned to Etherscan API V2, developers are recommended to migrate to BSCTrace through MegaNode to continue accessing APIs. Learn how

Block Access List (BAL): Live on BSC via BEP-592

BAL helps to reduce execution latency, improve parallel processing and speed up reorg recovery as BSC continues to scale and meet users’ needs. Read more

Erigon Support Ends Dec 31: All Node Operators to Start Migration

All node operators are recommended to Migrate from Erigon to either Reth or Geth before Dec 31 and begin testing early to ensure a smooth transition. Read more

BEP-640: Optional Transaction Gas Limit Cap

The proposal addresses super-heavy transactions that can stall blocks and trigger reorgs on BSC by recommending a voluntary gas usage cap per transaction at 16,777,216 gas (2²⁴) to maintain stability of BSC. Note that this is not a protocol-level hard fork. Read more

BEP-341: TurnLength reduced from 16 to 8

The proposal to reduce TurnLength from 16 to 8 to strengthen network stability and reduce reorg risk is now live. MEV builders and systems relying on in-turn validator prediction should update accordingly. Read more

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