Binance’s BNB Chain on Wednesday unveiled plans for a new Layer 1 blockchain built specifically for “agentic” trading — trading driven by autonomous agents — promising ultra-low latency and massively higher throughput.
According to BNB Chain developers, the network is being engineered to eventually exceed 100,000 transactions per second, confirm individual transactions in under 50 milliseconds, and achieve block finality in less than one second. A public testnet is slated for late 2026. The team says the design will improve how data is stored and verified and enable parallel processing to handle many transactions at once.
BNB Chain framed the effort as the next step in a roadmap focused on speed, throughput and protocol stability. “Six months ago, BNB Chain set three priorities for BSC: speed, throughput, and protocol stability,” the team wrote, adding that the roadmap “opens with the receipts and closes with what comes next—a second half focused on doubling performance again, and an architecture designed for the decade ahead.”
One technical change stands out: the new chain will eliminate the traditional public mempool and replace it with a transaction transmission mechanism called “TxStream.” Under TxStream, transactions are routed directly to block producers, which BNB Chain says should reduce latency and curb certain forms of MEV (maximal extractable value), including sandwich attacks that prey on publicly broadcast transactions.
Market reaction so far has been muted: BNB, the Chain’s native token, was down about 2.8% on the day and roughly 6% over the past month. The announcement also lands amid a broader industry push — several crypto firms and tech companies are racing to build infrastructure for AI agents that can autonomously move money and execute trades, making low-latency, high-throughput networks increasingly strategic.
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