BNB Chain

Blockchain Financials

Network revenue on BNB Smart Chain consists solely of Real Economic Value (REV), which tracks blockchain value accrual generated by user activity. REV consists of transaction fees (priority fees) and MEV payments that users and searchers pay, measuring the monetary demand to transact onchain.

BNB Smart Chain uses a Proof of Staked Authority (PoSA) consensus with 45 validators. All user-paid fees flow through a fixed distribution: 10% burned via BEP-95 (returning value to all holders via deflation), with the remaining 90% distributed to stakers (81% to delegators, 9% as validator commission).

MEV payments flow to block builders (48club, Blockrazor, Bloxroute) as a pass-through. They appear as both revenue and expense, netting to zero for token holders.

Token Holder Net Income = BEP-95 Burn. BNB has zero token issuance, so validators are paid purely from transaction fees.

BNB Token Burn

The chart above shows BNB burn history across three categories.

BEP-95 Real-Time Burn: 10% of transaction fees are burned at the protocol level every block.

Quarterly / Auto-Burn: Historical quarterly burns, Beacon Chain auto-burns, and BSC auto-burns. Earlier quarterly and Beacon Chain events are modeled from official burn records; BSC auto-burns are sourced from on-chain traces.

Other / One-Time Burns: Miscellaneous on-chain burns plus one-time supply reductions such as TokenHub locks and Beacon Chain sunset adjustments. Net bridge exploit/recovery supply adjustments are included in the supply model but are not plotted as burn bars.

BNB's target supply is 100M BNB from an initial 200M. As of May 3, 2026, modeled total supply is approximately 134.8M BNB and cumulative total burn is approximately 65.2M BNB.