BNB Chain Releases Roadmap for the Second Half of 2026, Targeting Higher BSC Throughput

BNB Chain has released its technology roadmap for the second half of 2026, outlining plans to further optimize speed, throughput, and protocol stability, and to develop a next-generation Layer 1 architecture intended for the next decade. According to Odaily, the roadmap includes a plan to double BSC mainnet throughput again. BNB Chain said that in the first half of 2026, BSC completed multiple performance upgrades, including reducing block intervals to 450 milliseconds from 750 milliseconds and lowering memory finality to 650 milliseconds from 1,125 milliseconds. It also said baseline throughput increased to about 5,200 TPS from about 2,800 TPS. At the middleware layer, BNB Chain said it advanced AI agent and payment infrastructure efforts. This included launching BNB Agent Studio and the BNB Agent SDK to support deployment of autonomous on-chain AI agents. It also said it continued improving the Middleware Payment Protocol (MPP) SDK and explored an institutional-grade privacy framework. For the second half of 2026, BNB Chain set three core goals. First, it aims to double throughput through BEP-675, BAL integration, and EVM execution optimizations, with a long-term target of a 10x performance increase across BNB Chain. Second, it plans to reduce the impact of network congestion by using resource isolation, dedicated transaction channels, and a transaction inclusion mechanism based on the FOCIL concept to improve stability during peak periods. Third, it plans to lower barriers to use by optimizing gas fee structures for different industries to reduce costs for enterprises entering Web2 and Web3 application scenarios.