Summary
- Lorentz and Maxwell upgrades enabled parallel execution, reducing block times from ~3s to ~0.75s with a target of 0.25s and reducing costs by ~98%.
- Daily active users reached ~4.8 million and transactions reached over 15 million per day, boosted by four.meme and Aster’s perpetuals plus a gasless stablecoin promo.
- BNB broke through four digits, while quarterly figures removed ~6.25 million BNB, reinforcing CoinMarketCap’s view that growth was structural and not speculative.
BNB Chain’s 2025 upgrades cut fees by 98%, push blocks below 1s, lift BNB to new ATH as meme trading and gasless stablecoin payments drive record on-chain activity.
BNB Chain performance improvements amid CZ pardon
BNB Chain saw significant performance improvements and user growth in 2025, according to a year-end summary published by CoinMarketCap.
The blockchain network made two major upgrades during the year. The Lorentz upgrade in April and the Maxwell upgrade in June introduced parallel execution and enhanced instruction capabilities, designed to support decentralized finance and artificial intelligence workloads more efficiently, the report said.
Block times dropped from about three seconds to about 0.75 seconds, with a long-term goal of 0.25 seconds, the data showed. Transaction costs fell by approximately 98 percent during this period.
BNB Chain reached approximately 4.8 million daily active users in December and processed more than 15 million transactions per day, according to CoinMarketCap. Launched in October, the four.meme platform generated significant activity, briefly surpassing Solana’s Pump.fun in 24-hour revenue and helping BNB Chain rank first among Layer-1 networks in decentralized exchange volume at its peak. According to the report, more than 100,000 new traders joined the platform in one week during this period.
The BNB token reached a new all-time high in October, surpassing the four-digit price level. According to CoinMarketCap, the 30th to 33rd quarter token burns removed approximately 6.25 million BNB from circulation.
The data showed that the Aster platform attracted more than two million users for trading perpetual bonds. A zero-fee promotion regarding gas fees for stablecoin transactions, extended through January 2026, increased weekly stablecoin volume and more than doubled supply on the network.
CoinMarketCap characterized BNB Chain’s 2025 growth as structural rather than speculative, citing faster transaction execution, meme token activity serving as an onboarding mechanism, and reduced friction for stablecoin payments as key factors in the network’s expansion.
