BNB Chain Dethrones Solana in Daily Fees After Aster DEX-Fueled Surge

BNB Chain has overtaken Solana in daily chain fees and sustained the lead for three consecutive days. Fees, which are a key indicator of actual network usage, reveal a sharp reversal after Solana dominated mid-September with highs around $2.2 million compared to BNB Chain’s $0.6-$0.8 ￰0￱ Chain Activity Spikes From September 20 to 22, CryptoRank observed that BNB Chain surged to roughly $1.1-$1.4 million in daily fees, while Solana cooled to about $0.85-$0.95 ￰1￱ surge coincided with the launch of Aster DEX on BNB Chain, an event publicly endorsed by Binance founder CZ, driving fresh user activity, liquidity inflows, and growing paid demand for BNB Chain’s ￰2￱ of September 23, Aster’s TVL reached $1.52 billion, according to DefiLlama, following a sharp uptick in the month’s final ￰3￱ influx of liquidity indicates that users are turning to Aster for decentralized trading and yield ￰4￱ this momentum, the platform briefly overtook Hyperliquid in daily trading ￰5￱ the past 24 hours, Aster recorded a trading volume of $515.51 million, which pushed its weekly volume above $3 ￰6￱ growing user engagement on Aster and record-breaking fee activity can also be seen in the broader surge in BNB Chain’s overall network ￰7￱ compiled by Chainspect revealed that BNB Chain reached a new activity milestone after processing over 16.5 million transactions in a single day on September ￰8￱ throughput translated to an average of 191 transactions per second (TPS) recorded continuously for 24 hours, which evidenced the network’s growing capacity and adoption.

Additionally, Santiment found that BNB Chain secured the second spot in terms of the leading blockchain ecosystems by total development activity over the past 30 ￰9￱ ranking reflects the volume of development events, such as smart contract updates, protocol enhancements, and ecosystem ￰10￱ Chain is trailing only Ethereum, while outpacing other prominent networks like Polygon, Optimism, and ￰11￱ Defies Market Sell-Off On the price front, BNB, the native token of BNB Chain, bucked the trend as it defied the broader crypto market’s ￰12￱ recently joining the four-digit club, the token rebounded sharply even as other major coins ￰13￱ climbed nearly 10% over the past week, standing out among its peers who largely remained in the ￰14￱ wider market weakness, it was currently trading at $1,016.