BNB Chain Unveils 2026 Technical Roadmap with Key Milestones

According to Odaily, BNB Chain has announced its technical roadmap for 2026, highlighting significant milestones for 2025. The network aims to achieve zero downtime under high-load conditions, with continuous growth in transaction activity, stablecoin volume, and real-world assets (RWA). Drawing from past experiences in reliability, speed, cost efficiency, and fairness, BNB Chain has outlined its technological evolution for 2026. In 2025, BNB Chain plans to implement multiple hard forks, including Pascal, Lorentz, Maxwell, and Fermi, to reduce block time from 3 seconds to 0.45 seconds and finality time to 1.125 seconds. Network bandwidth is expected to increase to 133 million Gas per second, maintaining stability during peak periods such as meme coin trading surges and BNB price highs. The network's total value locked (TVL) is projected to grow by 40.5% year-on-year, with daily transaction volumes peaking at 31 million and stablecoin market capitalization reaching approximately $14 billion. RWA scale is anticipated to exceed $1.8 billion. The roadmap for 2026 indicates that BNB Chain will continue to optimize the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) as an EVM transaction chain, advancing a dual-client strategy. The Geth client will ensure stability, while a Reth-based client will serve as a high-performance engine. Core objectives include achieving 20,000 transactions per second (TPS), sub-second finality, and further reducing Gas costs through software layer optimizations. The network will introduce higher-performance execution engines, parallel execution, and storage capabilities to address the growing state size. On the infrastructure front, BNB Chain will enhance its scalable database architecture with multi-layer sharding and distributed processing to mitigate state bloat. At the application level, a privacy framework and AI agent middleware will be introduced to simplify the development of advanced applications. In the longer term, BNB Chain is designing a next-generation transaction chain, aiming for near-million TPS and millisecond confirmation between 2026 and 2028, enhancing decentralization and security through a hybrid on-chain/off-chain computing architecture. The official summary states that the roadmap is based on real-world production experience, with core goals focused on ensuring long-term sustainability in performance, reliability, and fairness as the network continues to expand.