BNB, the native token of the BNB chain-a layer-1 blockchain created by the Crypto Exchange Binance-has reached a new full time in the middle of plans for upgrades and a broader rally in the market.
The token reached $ 1,111.90 in the first time on Friday, after increased by more than 7.4% in the last 24 hours and fell 17.5% for the week, According to In the data aggregator coingecko.
It also came as more Treasury companies were stacked with BNB. Shortly after the entire coin time in July, Analysts told cointelegraph Buying that treasury, along with regular token burns, contributed to its prices, with more room growing.
Chartered by Asset Manager Standard predicted in May the token Reach a peak of $ 1,275 in 2025, based on its expected benefit coinciding with Bitcoin (Btc) and ether (Eth).
The rest of the cryptocurrency market is also registered with the gains on Friday, including the total market capitalization of the market rising 1.6% to $ 4.2 trillion.
BNB chain metrics are also rising
In conjunction with the price of the token, the total cost of the BNB chain (TLV) also increased. The total number of active addresses and volume of transaction increased in the last month, According to on the analytics platform defillama.
Blockchain’s TLV rose 2.5% in the last 24 hours, which has been up to $ 8.23 billion. At the same time, the number of active addresses emerged at 73.24 million last month, reaching the highest recorded level.
Transaction volumes also increased, recorded the second largest number last month after reaching 4.34 million. The largest monthly volume of transaction was recorded in June.
The new all-time high and growing user scale Comes only days after the official X account For the BNB chain was compromised Wednesday, when hackers posted phishing links that target crypto wallets.
BNB upgrades to reach -to -overlook
On Wednesday, validators and builders operating at the BNB chain adopted a new minimum gas price of 0.05 GWEI, which is the BNB team Says In an X post will result in faster and cheaper trade for users.
“Next step for purses, CEXS and trading platforms: to adopt 0.05 GWEI to align the network and keep the BNB chain the most attractive -attract home for onchain activity,” the team said.
In its view for the residue of 2025 and 2026, the BNB team said the plans were also in place Increase BSC block gas limit from 100 million to 1 billion, aimed at addressing user demand and ensuring proper activity throughout decentralized application.
Meanwhile, in 2026, there was a goal to develop a blockchain architecture with the ability to process 20,000 transactions per second with confirmation hours of under 150 milliseconds.
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There are also plans for native privacy features, upgraded virtual machines and more tools that are easy to use for next year.
Two major upgrades became live in 2025
Earlier this year, Maxwell upgrading the BNB Smart Chain came to life in June, dedicated to creating faster blocks, better validator coordination and better network performance. This is it too sparked speculation -haaka that a rally may be around the corner.
In April, the Lorentz Hard Fork lived live, reducing block times and introducing improved validator networking to make the chain more appropriate for latency sensitive applications.
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