By Isaac • July 13, 2026 11:23 am •
BNB Chain has put an enormous number on its next act: more than 100,000 transactions per second.
It is also promising transaction preconfirmation in under 50 milliseconds, block finality in under one second, no public mempool, protected lanes for critical traffic and privacy built into the protocol.
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Those are exchange-grade ambitions.
They are not live network results.
The distinction is especially important because BNB Chain is describing two different engineering tracks at once.
The existing BNB Smart Chain is being tuned for another round of performance gains in the second half of 2026. Beyond it, a separate next-generation Layer 1 is still being designed for a testnet by year-end and a mainnet launch in early 2027.
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