BNB Chain Plans a New Layer-1 Built for Automated Trading and AI Agents

BNB Chain, the network backed by Binance, is building a new layer-1 blockchain designed for high-frequency trading and artificial-intelligence agents, CoinDesk reported. The design aims to process more than 100,000 transactions per second by streaming them directly to validators and eliminating the public queue where pending trades ordinarily sit, which the team argues reduces the opportunity for front-running and other order manipulation.

The chain is meant to settle trades in under 50 milliseconds, according to Watcher Guru, and sits inside a longer-term architectural overhaul that CryptoSlate reports targets an eventual 1 million transactions per second alongside protocol-level privacy. The design targets two demanding markets at once, professional trading firms that need deterministic latency and a coming population of autonomous agents that transact without human oversight.

The move treats execution architecture as a competitive advantage. Streaming transactions and hiding the mempool (the public queue of pending transactions) addresses maximal-extractable-value leakage, the profit that block builders and searchers capture by reordering pending trades, but it also concentrates ordering power in whoever operates the stream. BNB Chain currently secures $4.85 billion in decentralized-finance value on DeFiLlama's tally, behind Ethereum's $39.11 billion, and the throughput claims remain design goals rather than measured mainnet performance.