BNB Chain Weekly Ecosystem Report (Jan 15 - 21)

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: 2,818,268 (Jan 15 - 21)
    • Source: Dune
  • opBNB: 1,644,326 (Jan 15 - 21)
    • Source: Dune
• Total Transactions:
  • BSC: 122,596,163 (Jan 15 - 21)
    • Source: BscScan
  • opBNB: 22,826,274 (Jan 15 - 21)
    • Source: opBNBScan
• Total Trading Volume:
  • The total trading volume is $62.4B (Jan 15 - 21)
    • Source: Dune
• Total Value Locked (TVL):
  • The TVL is $10.2B (Jan 21)
    • Source: Dune

Ecosystem Updates

Good Vibes Only Hackathon: Build Phase Begins with Winners Announced on Jan 29

Good Vibes Only is an 8-day online hackathon where vibe coders are encouraged to build using AI tools, ideate and share their progress on X. The hackathon features open tracks, with specialized tracks also available thanks to sponsors AEON, ChatAndBuild, INFINIT and Unibase. Winners will be announced on January 29. Read more

BNB Trenching Szn: Trade, Compete and Win a Slice of $650K till Feb 21

BNB Trenching Szn brings multiple trading competitions under one season where users can trade assets on BNB Chain to compete for a share of the $650K prize pool hosted by Binance Wallet, Bitget, GMGN, Ave.ai and Genius. Read more

USD1 Trading Competition: $250K in liquidity and ecosystem support from Jan 15 - 25 

The competition will deploy $250K USD in USD1 liquidity and ecosystem support for winning projects, in collaboration with World Liberty Financial, four.meme and Aster. Read more

Grayscale filed an S-1 registration for BNB ETF

Grayscale filed to launch a spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) tracking $BNB. Read more

BNB Chain and Brevis Collaborate to Build Privacy Infrastructure Supported by 0xbow

The Intelligent Privacy Pool aims to move beyond traditional privacy tools to introduce valuable use cases like protected identities for users, distinguishing legitimate privacy from illicit activity and benefits beyond payments, all on BNB Chain. Read more

New Record for Prediction Markets on BNB Chain: Cumulative Volume Crossed $20B

Prediction Markets on BNB Chain are demonstrating exponential growth with strong builders contributing to a cumulative volume that has now crossed $20 billion. Read more

New Knowledge-Based MCP endpoint for BNB Builders

Knowledge-Based MCP is a read-only knowledge layer to help builders easily get information on BSC proposals, specific features and more. Builders using the old endpoint should update before the sunset date on 31 January 2026. Read more

BNB Martian Night: Learn & Network: Jan 30 in Seoul

Join us in Seoul for an education & networking event held for those who want to directly build the BNB ecosystem together with BNB Martians and grow into our Most Valuable Builder program. Apply here

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

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