BNB Chain Weekly Ecosystem Report (Jan 8 - 14)

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: 2,543,472 (Jan 8 - 14)
    • Source: Dune
  • opBNB: 1,671,742 (Jan 8 - 14)
    • Source: Dune
• Total Transactions:
  • BSC: 117,632,460 (Jan 8 - 14)
    • Source: BscScan
  • opBNB: 23,417,331 (Jan 8 - 14)
    • Source: opBNBScan
• Total Trading Volume:
  • The total trading volume is $54B (Jan 8 - 14)
    • Source: Dune
• Total Value Locked (TVL):
  • The TVL is $11B (Jan 14)
    • Source: Dune

Ecosystem Updates

34th BNB Burn

The 34th quarterly burn occurred on BNB Smart Chain on 15 January 2026 with 1.37M $BNB burned. Read more

BNB Trenching Szn: Trade, Compete and Win a Slice of $650K from Jan 19

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

$100M Incentive Program: New Asset Purchases

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

$100,000 purchase of 币安人生 (420,743.73 tokens @ 0.2376743687)

$100,000 purchase of 我踏马来了 (6,597,627.99 tokens @ 0.0151569625)

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$50,000 purchase of 哈基米 (1,304,496.27 tokens @ 0.03832897115)

$50,000 purchase of 老子 (4,703,223.22 tokens @ 0.01063101)

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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

Cumulative Volume of Prediction Markets on BNB Chain Crossed $16B

Prediction Markets on BNB Chain are demonstrating exponential growth with strong builders contributing to a cumulative volume that has now crossed $16 billion. Read more

BNB Builders Share Some Unpopular Opinions in Crypto

We asked some builders for their unpopular crypto opinions from BNB Hack: Abu Dhabi. Watch here

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

Upcoming X Space on Jan 20: Toward A United Stablecoin Layer with United Stables

Join our X Spaces to learn how United Stables is building toward a united stablecoin layer, together with PancakeSwap, Lista DAO & Venus Protocol. 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

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