• BNB Chain is developing a new Layer-1 blockchain to support various use cases, including trading, privacy and AI.
• The new protocol is designed to support high-performance environments, with over 100,000 transactions per second.
• BNB Chain H1 report highlights key achievements in agentic AI, payment infrastructure and institutional privacy.

BNB Chain is building a new Layer-1 blockchain to support various use cases beyond existing ones, including trading systems powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI).

BNB Chain designs a high-performance blockchain

BNB Chain’s first half (H1) of the year report has unveiled a new product suite, including the development of a high-performance blockchain. The blockchain will be capable of supporting more than 100,000 transactions per second (TPS) through optimized consensus and parallel execution.

The blockchain developer aims for an ambitious transaction pre-confirmation time of less than 50 milliseconds (ms), a block finality of less than one second, and no public mempool. This means that transactions will be routed directly to the block leader, significantly cutting latency and blocking front-running by design.

In addition to supporting agentic trading powered by AI, the new protocol achieves native privacy, including confidential transactions and selective disclosure for compliance.

BNB Chain stated in a press release on Wednesday that “the goal is to achieve Web2-grade user experience (UX) natively” through transaction batching, scheduled execution, pass key signing and access key control.

"We plan to ship it on testnet by the end of 2026, with mainnet release following in early 2027,” BNB Chain outlined.

From protocol to product

In H1, BNB Chain successfully rolled out the BNB Agent Studio and BNB Agent SDK, leveraging integrations with AWS Bedrock AgentCore and LLM gateways to facilitate autonomous on-chain agent deployment, an important step toward scalable, AI-powered blockchain applications.

On the payment infrastructure, BNB Chain enhanced the Middleware Payment Protocol (MPP), prioritizing seamless end-to-end integration and driving adoption through strategic partnerships. This has strengthened BNB Chain’s position in the evolving blockchain payments ecosystem.

The network also focused on institutional privacy through research and the drafting of key frameworks. Apart from the new Layer-1, BNB Chain developers announced that they are committed to increasing the transaction throughput on the BSC chain to twice the current level, with a long-term goal of scaling it up to 10 times.

“Gas fee structures will be refined to reduce entry costs for both Web2 and Web3 enterprises, a prerequisite for mass adoption,” the BNB Chain press release added.

BNB Chain is doubling down on testing and evaluating solutions for quantum-resistantecurity across protocol features. Data protection is emerging as a primary concern, since attackers can access currently encrypted data and decrypt it later as quantum computers catch up.

The native token, BNB, remains under pressure, trading at $562 at the time of writing. This marks three consecutive days of declines and mirrors a broader crypto market sell-off.