This increase highlights BSC’s continued growth as a hub for decentralized financial and trading activities, particularly on decentralized exchanges.
Of all transactions processed, 77% came from swaps, totaling 24 million transactions, demonstrating strong user engagement and demand for liquidity.
Exchanges generate check-in activity
Swaps, which are exchanges between different crypto tokens on decentralized exchanges, accounted for the majority of BSC’s activity. These transactions allow users to exchange assets without the need for centralized intermediaries, often using liquidity pools that support automated trading. The 24 million swaps processed yesterday highlight the popularity of decentralized finance on BSC, where traders can act quickly, execute complex strategies and enjoy low fees compared to some other chains.
BNB Smart Chain has just reached a new record: 5T of gas consumed in a single day!
Yesterday, 77% of transactions came from swaps, totaling 24 million transactions.
BNB Chain is where real trading happens on-chain pic.twitter.com/5c6Eidrsxw
– BNB Channel (@BNBCHAIN) October 9, 2025
High gas consumption is often a sign of network activity rather than congestion, as the BSC is optimized for efficient transaction processing. For comparison, Ethereum, the largest smart contract platform, regularly hits high gas consumption during peak periods, but transaction costs can increase significantly due to network demand. BSC’s scalability allows it to handle massive trading volumes with relatively low fees, making it attractive to both casual users and professional traders.
BNB Smart Chain’s new standard gas fee of 0.05 Gwei is now fully adopted across the entire network!
Main ecosystem partners, including @BinanceWallet, @TrustWallet, @Aster_DEX and more, increased to 0.05 Gwei as the default gas fee.
Spend less on gas, do more with BSC 🤩 pic.twitter.com/k9j7jYwr0n
– BNB Channel (@BNBCHAIN) October 9, 2025
The record gas consumption reflects a broader trend of growing adoption of decentralized finance. According to DappRadar data, BSC has consistently ranked among the top DeFi activity chains in 2025, attracting both developers and users with fast execution and strong ecosystem support. Platforms like PancakeSwap have become essential to this growth, providing millions of users with opportunities to trade, mine, and stake on-chain assets.
JUST IN: $BNB The channel records $5.58 million in daily fees, marking its second highest level in the last three years. pic.twitter.com/ofZ4tKhJFC
– Whale Insider (@WhaleInsider) October 8, 2025
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BNB Chain achieved a major performance milestone, reaching a throughput of 100 million gas per second and a block time of 750 milliseconds, thanks to Lorentz and Maxwell hardforks. This upgrade significantly improves speed and efficiency over the previous block time of 3 seconds and throughput of 47 million gas per second, allowing transactions to be confirmed in less than two seconds. The faster network not only reduces latency and fees for users, but also opens up new opportunities for developers building high-throughput applications such as on-chain order books, DeFi platforms, and blockchain games.
100M gas/second. Blocks of 750 ms.
BNB Chain is fast and cheap by design, fueling solid builders and real users.
See the full performance breakdown 👇
– BNB Channel (@BNBCHAIN) October 9, 2025
Additionally, the upgrade mitigates MEV risks by reducing the manipulation window, while validators and infrastructure partners can operate on a more secure, high-throughput base layer. Overall, this milestone reflects BNB Chain’s commitment to scale with real-world usage, providing a faster and more reliable experience for users and builders in the Web3 ecosystem.
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