BNB Chain Weekly Ecosystem Report (Dec 18 - 24)

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: 2,538,782 (Dec 18 - 24)
    • Source: Dune
  • opBNB: 1,685,815 (Dec 18 - 24)
    • Source: Dune
• Total Transactions:
  • BSC: 105,263,319 (Dec 18 - 24)
    • Source: BscScan
  • opBNB: 23,422,351 (Dec 18 - 24)
    • Source: opBNBScan
• Total Trading Volume:
  • The total trading volume is $31.6B (Dec 18 - 24)
    • Source: Dune
• Total Value Locked (TVL):
  • The TVL is $10.1B (Dec 24)
    • Source: Dune

Ecosystem Updates

Kalshi Enables Deposits for BNB Smart Chain

This integration enables BSC users a faster and more straightforward way to use BNB and stablecoins on BSC in some of the world's most active and liquid markets. Read more

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

X Spaces: Privacy Use Cases on BNB Chain

Listen to the latest X Spaces on the importance of privacy protocols and what the builders are working towards to solve with Brevis, Railgun and zERC20. Listen more

Ongoing Social Campaign: Santa’s Builder List

This Christmas, the community is encouraged to nominate builders who have been consistently building on BNB Chain on the Santa’s Builder List. Join here

0 Fee Carnival for USD1 & USDC: Extended till Dec 31

Transfers 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

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

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

BEP-592: Block Access List (BAL)

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

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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