BNB Overtakes Solana to Become 5th Largest Crypto as BNB Chain Unveils 2025 Upgrades
BNB Chain has unveiled a series of major upgrades set for 2025, aiming to significantly enhance transaction speed, reduce costs, and introduce AI-driven features.
The improvements include sub-second block times, gasless transactions, and advanced security mechanisms designed to optimize the blockchain’s efficiency and scalability.
Following the announcement, Binance Coin (BNB) saw an 8.1% price surge, reaching $697 and overtaking Solana (SOL) to become the fifth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.
CZ Confirms BNB Chain Upgrades
In a Feb 12 post on X, former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) confirmed BNB Chain’s planned upgrades in 2025, including an ambitious goal of processing up to 100 million transactions per day.
One of the key enhancements is the reduction of block latency from three seconds to sub-second speeds, ensuring faster transaction confirmation times without compromising network throughput.
Another major development is the expansion of gasless transactions, which were previously available only for stablecoin transfers via MegaFuel.
The upcoming update will allow all transactions to be executed without traditional gas fees, using BEP-20 tokens or stablecoins instead.
This will be facilitated through an EIP-7702-based paymaster system, set to roll out later this year.
BNB Chain in 2025:
🔸Sub-second block finality
🔸100 million tx per day
🔸Gasless tx
🔸Smart wallet
🔸AI
🔸Memes
🔸Dev tools
Also:
🔸DeSci
🔸DePIN
🔸RWA
🔸Gov efficiency
🔸And more…
So much to build! https://t.co/Hgbp0tvygr
— CZ 🔶 BNB (@cz_binance) February 11, 2025
BNB Chain is also introducing AI-driven smart wallets, designed to enhance usability by automating portfolio management, trade execution, and transaction batching.
These wallets will feature improved key management and full gas sponsorship through the paymaster system, reducing the complexity of interacting with decentralized applications.
Beyond trading, BNB Chain is exploring AI applications in decentralized governance.
The integration of DataDAOs, trusted execution environments (TEEs), and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) could enhance data security and create new monetization opportunities for blockchain users.
BNB Chain’s roadmap also focuses on security, particularly in tackling malicious Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) attacks, which have plagued the network.
In 2024, nearly 40% of BNB Chain blocks were affected by MEV-related incidents, leading to higher transaction costs and trader losses.
To mitigate these risks, the network plans to introduce a new validator coordination framework, enhanced block voting mechanisms, and reduced mempool exposure.
CZ’s post mentioning these updates, which gained over 1.6 million views on X, pushed the price of BNB to a local high of around $722, according to data from CoinMarketCap.
As of now, the token is trading at $706, down by more than 9% over the past day.
BNB Chain Meme Coin Launch Platform Four.Meme Loses $183k in Security Breach
Just recently, BNB Chain-based meme coin launch platform Four.Meme suffered a security breach, resulting in the loss of approximately $183,000 worth of digital assets.
Four.Meme recently gained attention due to the meteoric rise and collapse of the Test (TST) token.
On February 9, TST reached a peak market cap of $489 million, only to plummet by over 50% to $215 million, according to CoinMarketCap data.
The token gained traction after it was briefly visible in a BNB Chain tutorial video related to the Four.Meme platform.
Even Binance’s co-founder and former CEO, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), clarified that the video was not an endorsement, but the frenzy around TST had already begun.
Source: cryptonews.com
