BNB Chain Unveils 2025 Roadmap: Sub-Second Speed, Gasless Transactions, AI-First Focus

BNB Chain, one of the most established blockchain platforms, has released its 2025 roadmap, with strategic focus areas targeting boosting transaction speed, streamlining user experience, and deeply integrating artificial intelligence.

The roadmap comes after a year of strong performance; BNB Chain reported that its total value locked (TVL) closed 2024 with a 41.7% increase, while financial losses from security breaches plummeted by 67%. Its layer-2 chain, opBNB, also saw user base growth, reaching around 4.7 million daily active users by year’s end.

This year, enhancing network performance is one of the team’s core focuses, as noted in the release. BNB Chain is targeting sub-second transaction speeds, a huge leap from the current three-second block time.

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Growing The Chain

The BNB team expects to achieve the performance boost through continued optimization of technologies like Parallel EVM and Consecutive Block Production which were introduced in 2024. They plan to maintain high throughput and the capacity to handle 100 million transactions per day.

BNB Chain is also doubling down on its user experience. After introducing Megafuel for gasless stablecoin transactions, they’re now planning to make all transactions gasless. The idea is to let users pay fees with various BEP-20 tokens, and even allow individuals or organizations to sponsor transactions.

The team is working on upcoming EIP-7702-based paymaster solutions, and anticipates that combining these should make interacting with the blockchain much easier.

In addition to security, BNB Chain prioritizes blockchain security. Following the deployment of Proposer Builder Separation in 2024 aimed at combating malicious MEV, the team is now working to eliminate “Sandwich Attacks” and other exploits. The plan includes improving how blocks are voted on and propagated, as well as enhancing mempool management.

AI-first Focus

Artificial intelligence is expected to be a key force behind crypto innovation in 2025, and BNB Chain is placing a strong emphasis on this area.

With a growing number of AI projects already running on BNB Chain, the team said they would continue to focus on key trends like decentralized data ownership for AI training, autonomous AI agents using secure technology, and a complete AI-Web3 toolkit for developers.

AI agents, which took the tech market by storm at the end of last year, will also be part of BNB Chain’s roadmap. The team looks to have AI agents built into smart wallets, helping users manage everything from trading and spending to booking travel.

BNB Chain is also enhancing its suite of developer tools with AI assistance. Following 2024 additions like tokenization services, AI agent solutions, meme coin launch platforms, and a canonical bridge, they’re now streamlining SDKs/APIs and introducing a BNB Chain AI Code Copilot for AI-assisted coding and debugging.

BNB Chain Committed to Meme Ecosystem

In its 2025 roadmap, BNB Chain also reaffirmed their commitment to the meme ecosystem and its tool providers. This comes as the blockchain has seen a recent spike in user activity, largely due to the TST token.

This test token, created by the BNB Chain team for an educational tutorial on the Four.Meme launch platform, briefly surged past $30 million in market cap after a post by former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ). After peaking at $511 million, the token’s market cap settled at around $152 million, according to CoinGecko data.

It’s important to note that TST isn’t officially backed by Binance, and the tutorial video has since been removed. CZ clarified that his post was not a promotion or endorsement.

The Four.Meme platform was recently hacked, resulting in a loss of approximately $183,000 in digital assets. While the platform assured users that internal funds were safe, the incident contributes to ongoing concerns about security in the crypto industry.