BNB Chain is accelerating its development, aiming to significantly scale its infrastructure and performance with a new Tech Roadmap for 2026. Building on a strong 2025 marked by sustained usage growth, the chain prioritizes reliability, speed, cost efficiency, and fairness.
Last year saw substantial gains, including a 40.5% increase in total value locked (TVL) and a 150% year-over-year growth in daily transactions. BNB Chain also achieved the highest daily active users across blockchains and led in stablecoin annual growth and DEX volume. Performance enhancements driven by four major hardforks reduced block time to 0.45 seconds and finality to 1.125 seconds, while nearly eliminating gas fees.
The 2026 plan focuses on optimizing the BNB Smart Chain (BSC) into a "highly optimized EVM trading chain." Key objectives include reaching 20,000 transactions per second (TPS) with sub-second finality, further reducing gas fees, and improving network latency. Enhancements to the EVM execution engine, including register-based interpretation and parallel execution, are planned. The chain will also redesign storage systems and develop middleware for advanced applications, such as AI agents.
Looking further, between 2026 and 2028, BNB Chain aims to become a "next-generation trading chain" targeting approximately 1 million TPS, near-instant transaction confirmation, and a hybrid off-chain/on-chain compute architecture. The focus remains on ensuring this extreme performance is sustainable, fair, and extensible.