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BNB Chain supercharges its network with validator upgrades, liquidity boosts and AI-driven features to keep up with the memecoin frenzy while tackling congestion and MEV threats.

Memecoins continue to spark conversations throughout crypto, generating excitement and fresh challenges for market leaders. They bring increased trading volumes, higher onchain revenues, user growth and token price surge. But, the rising activity also causes a congestion that doubles as a stress test for chains.

Seeking to keep pace with the demand and trends, community-first blockchain BNB Chain has outlined significant updates for BNB Smart Chain (BSC) to improve transaction throughput and maintain reliable performance under this heavy demand. The upgrade allows validators to process more bids per block, enhancing transaction speed by prioritizing value and time-sensitive transactions like memecoin swaps.

With BSC gas fees hitting a record $15 million thanks to BNB (BNB) price hike and the increased memecoin activity, this development aims to enhance transaction efficiency and reduce congestion through expanded validator capabilities that allow them to process multiple bids per three-second block window.

Community-driven tokens spark new energy on BNB Chain

Aside from infrastructure updates, the BNB ecosystem is enjoying a renewed focus on the community brought by memecoins like the Test (TST) and Broccoli tokens. The TST test token gained attention after a video frame of a BNB Chain tutorial on launching a memecoin was left unblurred by mistake, which resulted in the token unexpectedly surging to a $35 million market cap.

BNB Chain deleted the project’s private key as it wasn’t an official BNB Chain token. However, Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao retweeted the event, driving further engagement, eventually leading to the token being listed on Binance with its market value reaching $500 million.

Similarly, CZ unintentionally sparked another memecoin frenzy after revealing his dog’s name, “Broccoli,” on social media. Hundreds of Broccoli-themed tokens emerged almost overnight on platforms, with one token hitting a market cap of $1.5 billion.

To support this growing ecosystem, BNB Chain launched a $4.4 million liquidity support program to ensure long-term stability and support innovative memecoins. The initiative spotlights daily and weekly winners by adding BNB liquidity directly to their pools from the BNB Chain’s wallet. Over 70 projects joined the initiative on its first day.

The results of the first weekly round were announced across different tiers. Broccoli (firstbroccoli.com) received $500,000, being the only Tier 1 winner. Siren (SIREN) and Koma Inu (KOMA) shared the Tier 2 positions, receiving $400,000 in liquidity support for each. In Tier 3, Perry (PERRY), TST and Banana (BANANA) memecoins each won $300,000 support.

Memecoins push BNB Chain’s trading volume to new highs

The surge in memecoin speculation, including Broccoli and TST, has continued to drive significant activity on BNB Chain, with daily fees surpassing $5.8 million (as of Feb. 13). According to DefiLlama, BNB Chain recorded $3.7 billion in 24-hour volume with a 66% weekly volume increase. This led to BNB Chain outpacing its competitors for the first time since October 2024. Decentralized exchange PancakeSwap was a key driver in this milestone, reaching $1 trillion in trading volume.

With these milestones in mind, those looking to explore memecoin trading can now rely on added safeguards against malicious miner extractable value (MEV) attacks on the BNB Chain.

To mitigate MEV attacks, BNB Chain invites community participants to join forces to penalize bad actors, disconnect malicious block builders and vote out irresponsible validators to protect users from sandwich attacks. A new BNB Evolution Proposal will also be introduced to technically reduce transaction exposures and improve mempool efficiency.

BNB Chain’s 2025 roadmap outlines ambitions for sub-second block times, a Megafuel feature enabling gasless transactions, expanded AI integration and refined developer tools. The platform also emphasizes its continued support for the meme ecosystem, with more meme tool providers integrating with the chain as part of its broader strategy to foster innovation and growth.

Memecoins may steal headlines, yet the core endeavor lies in building networks that can adapt, protect and flourish under diverse market conditions. By reinforcing capacity and user safeguards, BNB Chain and its surrounding ecosystem seek to pave the way for broader adoption across digital assets.

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