Overview
- The Lorentz and Maxwell upgrades have enabled parallel execution, reducing block times from around 3 seconds to nearly 0.75 seconds with a target of 0.25 seconds, while fees decreased by about 98%.
- Daily active users reached approximately 4.8 million and transactions exceeded 15 million daily, fueled by the four.meme platform and Aster’s perpetual trading, alongside a gasless stablecoin promotion.
- BNB surpassed the four-digit mark, and quarterly token burns eliminated about 6.25 million BNB, reinforcing CoinMarketCap’s assertion that the growth was fundamental rather than speculative.
In 2025, BNB Chain’s upgrades slashed fees by 98%, brought block times under 1 second, and propelled BNB to a new all-time high, driven by meme trading and gasless stablecoin payments which spurred on-chain activity.
BNB Chain’s performance enhancements during CZ pardon
According to a year-end summary by CoinMarketCap, BNB Chain saw notable performance enhancements and user growth in 2025.
The blockchain network executed two significant upgrades this year. The Lorentz upgrade in April and the Maxwell upgrade in June introduced parallel execution and improved instruction capabilities, aimed at optimizing decentralized finance and artificial intelligence workloads more effectively, as detailed in the report.
Block times decreased from roughly three seconds to about 0.75 seconds, with a longer-term objective of achieving 0.25 seconds, according to the data. Transaction fees dropped by approximately 98% during this phase.
By December, BNB Chain had around 4.8 million daily active users and processed over 15 million transactions daily, as reported by CoinMarketCap. The platform four.meme, which launched in October, generated significant user activity, briefly outpacing Solana’s Pump.fun in 24-hour revenue and contributing to BNB Chain being the top Layer-1 network by decentralized exchange volume at its peak. The report noted over 100,000 new traders registered on the platform within a single week during this time.
The BNB token achieved a new all-time high in October, exceeding the four-digit price threshold. The token burns from the 30th to the 33rd quarter removed around 6.25 million BNB from circulation, according to CoinMarketCap.
The Aster platform attracted over two million users for perpetual trading, as indicated by the data. A zero-fee promotion covering gas fees for stablecoin transactions, extended through January 2026, boosted weekly stablecoin volume and more than doubled the supply on the network.
CoinMarketCap described BNB Chain’s growth in 2025 as being structural rather than speculative, highlighting faster transaction execution, meme-token engagement as an onboarding strategy, and reduced barriers for stablecoin payments as crucial contributors to the network’s development.
