BNB Chain Weekly Ecosystem Report (Jan 1 - 7)

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: 2,485,950 (Jan 1 - 7)
    • Source: Dune
  • opBNB: 1,805,364 (Jan 1 - 7)
    • Source: Dune
• Total Transactions:
  • BSC: 98,613,140 (Jan 1 - 7)
    • Source: BscScan
  • opBNB: 22,122,189 (Jan 1 - 7)
    • Source: opBNBScan
• Total Trading Volume:
  • The total trading volume is $43.8B (Jan 1 - 7)
    • Source: Dune
• Total Value Locked (TVL):
  • The TVL is $10.6B (Jan 7)
    • Source: Dune

Ecosystem Updates

Important: Action Required for Upcoming Fermi Hard Fork

The upgrade will reduce block interval on BSC from 750 milliseconds to 450 milliseconds, scheduled on 14 Jan 2026 at 02:30AM UTC. All validators and builders are required to complete the necessary upgrade before the fork activation date. Read Upgrade Guide

2026 Tech Roadmap

The 2026 Tech Roadmap outlines BNB Chain's strategy to enhance performance, execution quality and infrastructure resilience to support increased network usage. Read more

2025 Year End Report

The report breaks down how BNB Chain grew its user base, transactions, and liquidity in 2025 while maintaining zero downtime. Infrastructure upgrades, stronger security, and active builders kept the network stable at scale. Read more

$100M Incentive Program: New Asset Purchases

The BNB Chain Foundation made four new purchases under the $100M Liquidity Incentive Program:

$50,000 purchase of $哈基米 (1,304,496.27 tokens) 

$50,000 purchase of $老子 (4,703,223.22 tokens)

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$50,000 purchase of $币安人生 (370050.734515 tokens)

$50,000 purchase of $我踏马来了 (4,833,569.280111073 tokens) 

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BlackRock’s BUIDL dividend payouts surpassed $1M on BNB Chain

BlackRock’s BUIDL Fund on BNB Chain, tokenized by Securitize, just reached $1.26M in dividend payments on BNB Chain. Read more

Upcoming X Space on Jan 13: Prediction Markets on BNB Chain

Join our X Spaces with Opinion, predict.fun, Probable, Myriad Markets and XO market, on how users can get involved and where prediction markets are headed next. Read more

0 Fee Carnival for U, USD1 & USDC: Extended till 31 Jan 2026

U joins the lineup with USD1 and USDC, keeping stablecoin transfers gas-free on BNB Chain under the extended 0 Fee Carnival. Move your stablecoins with no gas fees using supported wallets. Read more

Optimized Interpreter: Design and Performance Analysis

The Optimized/MIR is introduced to enable significant performance improvements for real-world smart contracts (8-27% faster) while maintaining 100% compatibility with EVM semantics. Read more

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