BNB Chain

BNB Hong Kong is back! 🏙️

Join us on February 10 for In The Mood For BNB, where institutions and innovators gather to exchange ideas on tokenization, institutional adoption and emerging market shifts.

Special thanks to our sponsors: Ondo Finance, AWS, Nano Labs, PancakeSwap, United Stables

Secure your spot for #BNBHK 👇
https://luma.com/89sesgij

The 0 Fee Carnival continues!

We’ve already covered $4.5M+ in stablecoin gas fees, and we’re extending zero-fee transfers for USDC, USD1 & U until Feb 28, 2026.

Move more, pay nothing.

Read more below 👇
https://bnbchain.org/en/blog/the-carnival-continues-0-fee-transactions-for-usdc-usd1-u-extended

The Good Vibes Only hackathon just got an upgrade.

Prizes are now doubled to $2,000 per winning project, with four new tracks live for you to vibe code on even more ideas!

Special thanks to our sponsors: AEON, ChatAndBuild, INFINIT, Unibase.

Full details on the new tracks in our blog 👇
https://www.bnbchain.org/en/blog/good-vibes-only-hackathon-build-in-public-code-in-vibes

Building doesn’t have to be closed-door or over-engineered.

With Good Vibes Only, BNB Chain is running an 8-day, build-in-public hackathon where anyone can ship, learn, and get real feedback along the way.

Read how it works and join 👇
https://www.bnbchain.org/en/blog/good-vibes-only-hackathon-build-in-public-code-in-vibes

$650k, 5 trading competitions and one season built for traders…

BNB Trenching Szn is live from Jan 19!

Binance Wallet. Bitget. GMGN. Ave.ai. Genius.

Full timelines, eligibility criteria, and direct links for each competition 👇
https://www.bnbchain.org/en/blog/win-a-share-of-650k-with-bnb-trenching-szn-on-binance-wallet-bitget-gmgn-ave-ai-genius

The 34th quarterly $BNB token burn has been completed directly on BNB Smart Chain (BSC).

1.37M #BNB has been burned 🔥

View the details of the burn below 👇
https://bnbchain.org/en/blog/34th-bnb-burn

$100M Incentive Program: Purchase Announcement

The BNB Chain Foundation wallet has made new asset purchases. Here are the details:

✅ $100,000 purchase of 币安人生 (420,743.73 tokens @ 0.2376743687)
https://bscscan.com/tx/0xc1332b4ee07f1149f88907f1fadf5f2cbab5234c54cf87804a4c893e1d9592b0

✅ $100,000 purchase of 我踏马来了 (6,597,627.99 tokens @ 0.0151569625)
https://bscscan.com/tx/0x839209426d915a737eefbeaa58864e1636c9f8b800a0e5a773e5bd4d831ba91b

🔍 BNB Chain Foundation Wallet address:
https://app.safe.global/home?safe=bnb:0x511DfE9E248c887E32ca8bF9d1cb76f101965060

Introducing the USD1 Trading Competition in collaboration with World Liberty Financial, Four.meme and Aster.

The program will deploy $250K USD worth of USD1 in liquidity support and further ecosystem support to strengthen market activity where it already exists, as part of the ongoing BNB Chain $100M Liquidity Incentive Program.

Read more in our blog 👇
https://www.bnbchain.org/en/blog/usd1-trading-competition-on-four-meme-with-support-from-wlfi-aster

$100M Incentive Program: Purchase Announcement

The BNB Chain Foundation wallet has made new asset purchases. Here are the details:

✅ $50,000 purchase of 哈基米 (1,304,496.27 tokens @ 0.03832897115 tokens per USDT)
https://bscscan.com/tx/0x04eb5133ed2fa76a1b8c514a9e1467380a2c2346a82f1c78a39795fa387027c4

✅ $50,000 purchase of 老子 (4,703,223.22 tokens @ 0.01063101 tokens per USDT)
Done in multiple swaps:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0xdaeb31f3bdb0cf93363eda7974794a801ca7977767b8a28b344394dee0bd1535

https://bscscan.com/tx/0xad6d6e4d6247721a75676ef5205f110dc0a59240e73241ae356d7eb3aca9d3e3

https://bscscan.com/tx/0xaea4efab9e50ac54aa2c799c6b11c4c441d6b6f653d2e02eb1bb349312b93aa8

https://bscscan.com/tx/0x7c3c605743271e0c3ed56def7b26d10ed7f4e740e2a52242cdc00c9c44de45a9

https://bscscan.com/tx/0xafce969dd81f3e9d70021aef691cbf4d98f48d721a3d97f873be60c6e9cdc5c5

https://bscscan.com/tx/0x9b24355804f5417381b3f466db8fb49282ec15c7eb9bebfeff92330981994fce

https://bscscan.com/tx/0xaf078990f7179cad282735c73949e11f11c663733e8d64377ff764b03ca3a730

https://bscscan.com/tx/0x1f4204a2f745576933f83cf04128a4b2ab8e2f57525b4be5afaf3c7ea4e22aa6

https://bscscan.com/tx/0xe13948d53e21fb37e853e0f19a5edfecde7294acf5cbba4cf2b23fbb8186d19b

https://bscscan.com/tx/0x7c4a91f1f61cefe97c64d7d2076b6dfbe9667df3f8bce5360438d8c09b215d2c

🔍 BNB Chain Foundation Wallet address:
https://app.safe.global/home?safe=bnb:0x511DfE9E248c887E32ca8bF9d1cb76f101965060

$100M Incentive Program: Purchase Announcement

The BNB Chain Foundation wallet has made new asset purchases. Here are the details:

✅ $50,000 purchase of $币安人生 (370050.734515 tokens @ 0.135116)
https://bscscan.com/tx/0xe25d3a4ac00fb27d4d875cf1c94c90e0cbc3e8089467fe113c155f77277dadf2

✅ $50,000 purchase of $我踏马来了 (4,833,569.280111073 tokens @ 0.01034)
https://bscscan.com/tx/0xc679eaac8c5aea5f42eb12ac2a7ec31e71f832e2fed391caf27b6004562bd6c8

🔍 BNB Chain Foundation Wallet address:
https://app.safe.global/home?safe=bnb:0x511DfE9E248c887E32ca8bF9d1cb76f101965060

Fermi is coming to BNB Smart Chain on 14 Jan, 02:30AM (UTC).

With Fermi, BSC gets:

🔸 ~0.45s blocks for quicker confirmations
🔸 Stronger finality at higher throughput
🔸 Smoother app performance as activity scales

Full details and notes below 👇
https://www.bnbchain.org/en/blog/fermi-hard-fork-accelerates-bsc-to-0-45-second-block-times

2025 was a landmark year for BNB Chain.

The network reached new highs in activity, liquidity and transactions, all with zero downtime.

Here’s what a year of growth looks like 👇
https://www.bnbchain.org/en/blog/bnb-chain-in-2025-making-scale-the-standard

BNB Chain didn’t just scale in 2025, it proved what production-ready looks like at peak load:

Zero downtime, faster finality, cheaper fees, real usage at real scale.

The 2026 Tech Roadmap shows how we push this even further. Read it here 👇
http://bnbchain.org/en/blog/tech-roadmap-2026/

⛽️ Moving your stablecoins on BNB Chain continues to be free!

The 0 Fee Carnival has been extended until 31 Jan 2026.

Transact with USD1, USDC and U with zero fees, with $4.5M in fees covered so far.

Full update 👇
https://www.bnbchain.org/en/blog/move-your-stablecoins-for-free-0-fee-carnival-for-usdc-usd1-u-transfers-extended

BNB Chain 🤝 Kalshi

Kalshi now supports deposits for BNB Smart Chain (BSC), enabling users direct access to some of the world's most active and liquid markets using BNB and stablecoins on BSC.

Learn more 👇
https://www.bnbchain.org/en/blog/kalshi-enables-deposits-for-bsc

$BNB payments are now live for Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers via Better Payment Network (BPN), a payment infrastructure built natively on BNB Chain

Faster, cheaper, global. This is a real upgrade to how businesses will handle cloud billing.

$BNB’s role in real-world finance keeps accelerating. Payments, tokenized assets, and enterprise integrations are becoming central to the ecosystem and AWS billing adds another meaningful step.

With BPN, AWS customers can use $BNB today for faster settlement, lower costs and efficient payment processing for AWS services.

Want the full breakdown of how AWS billing now supports $BNB and what this unlocks for global businesses?

Read the full article here:
https://www.bnbchain.org/en/blog/bnb-chain-brings-crypto-payment-access-to-amazon-web-services-customers-via-better-payment-network

$U by United Stables is now live on BNB Chain.

As a first-of-its-kind stablecoin, $U unifies all major stablecoins into a single liquidity layer across trading, payments, DeFi, institutional settlement and AI-native systems.

This enables greater capital efficiency and a smoother user experience across onchain use cases.

Full details: https://www.bnbchain.org/en/blog/united-stables-launches-u-as-a-native-stablecoin-on-bnb-chain

End-of-year AMA with CZ to close out 2025.

We’ll review the year, share priorities going forward and take live questions from the community.

Live on 18 Dec, 4:30PM UTC+4.

Join us 👇
https://x.com/i/spaces/1zqKVdaQPvLJB?s=20

BNB Hack Abu Dhabi brought together a mix of new and seasoned builders for two focused days of learning, experimenting and shipping.

44 teams from across the globe showed up with ideas across DeFi, AI agents, onchain payments, infrastructure, RWAs, and consumer apps.

🔸 Hackathon winners:
1st: DeFi Pro
2nd: Midas
3rd: HeroPath

🔸 Demo Night finalists:
1st: SilentSwap
2nd: Renaiss
3rd: OrbitAI
4th: USDi

🔸 Sponsor track winners:
APRO_Oracle: VIBE
ChatAndBuild: BNB Phunks

Full recap: https://bnbchain.org/en/blog/bnb-hack-abu-dhabi-highlights-from-the-hackathon-and-demo-night

Surprise, surprise… 👀

CZ will be joining BNB Hack Demo Night on Dec 6 as a judge, meet builders and founders innovating on BNB Chain and take questions in an AMA.

Spots are filling up fast, secure your seat here 👇
https://luma.com/y2exp6j8