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BNB Smart Chain
Binance-incubated EVM chain optimized for retail trading flows.
BNB Smart Chain (BSC) is the EVM-compatible chain tightly integrated with Binance. Stablecoin supply is dominated by USDT (Binance-Peg) and FDUSD, the chain's preferred trading-pair stablecoin.
Live metrics Updated 1d ago
Stablecoin supply
$8.2B
DeFi TVL
$3.8B
Daily transactions
5.4M
Active addresses 24h
1.1M
Validators
45
Stablecoin supply on this chain · 90d Updated today
$17.1B
Source: DeFiLlama
24h
-0.05%
7d
-0.33%
net−$56.3M
30d
-2.35%
net−$411.2M
inflow 7d$477,720
outflow 7d$56.7M
Technical profile
- Native token
- BNB
- Consensus
- Proof-of-Staked-Authority (21 validators)
- VM
- EVM
- EVM compatible
- Yes
- Block time
- 3s
- Finality
- ~7.5 seconds (Fast Finality)
- TPS (typical / max)
- 180 / 2,200
- Avg fee
- $0.04
- Launched
- Sep 1, 2020
Foundation and contributors
- Foundation
- BNB Chain Foundation
- Country of origin
- Cayman Islands (operating)
Core contributors
BNB Chain FoundationBinance
Stablecoins on this chain
Timeline
- Sep 1, 2020BSC mainnet launch
- Oct 6, 2022Cross-chain bridge hack ($570M)
BSC Token Hub exploit halts network for emergency patch.
- Apr 25, 2024Haber hardfork: faster finality
- Aug 10, 2025opBNB scaling layer
Optimistic rollup scaling solution launches.
Ecosystem
Notable projects
- PancakeSwap (DEX)
- Venus (lending)
- Binance Bridge
- opBNB
- Helio Protocol
Bridges and interop
Binance BridgeBSC BridgeWormholeLayerZerodeBridge
Best for
Best for
- ›Retail trading deposit/withdraw rails
- ›Binance ecosystem DeFi
- ›Memecoin and gaming launches
Risk notes
Risk notes
- ● Centralized validator set (21 active validators)
- ● Binance dependency for liquidity routing
- ● History of bridge exploits
Resources
More on BNB Smart Chain
For cross-chain context, deeper dives and stablecoin-specific analysis, see the blog and the stablecoins index.