Tokenized assets, network upgrades and more

BNB Chain had a busy and measurable week, marked by technical upgrades, increasing onchain activity and deeper connections between traditional financial and blockchain systems. The article discusses the most important weekly developments, explains what has changed and outlines how these updates impact users, builders and institutions.

Multiple updates arrived at the same time. Bitget expanded tokenized traditional assets BNB Chain. BlackRock’s BUIDL fund continued its onchain rollout. Core network performance has been improved through protocol upgrades. Onchain data also showed stable usage at both BSC and opBNB.

Bitget Expand tokenized shares BNB Chain

On January 8, Bitget mentioned 98 tokenized US stocks and exchange traded funds through Ondo Finance at BNB Chain. These assets are available through Bitget’s Universal Exchange, also known as the UEX model.

Users can trade stocks, bonds and commodities alongside crypto assets on a single platform, without moving money between systems.

These products are not shares that are held through a securities account. They are tokenized representations that track the price of underlying assets. The settlement takes place in USDTusing crypto-native infrastructure.

What assets are included in the new offerings?

The 98 tokenized products cover different market segments:

• Short-term US Treasury bond ETFs such as SGOV
• Major US stocks in technology, energy, healthcare, finance and manufacturing
• International growth stocks, including BILI, PDD and GRAB
• Commodity-linked ETFs such as GLD, USO, COPX and REMX
• Broad market index trackers such as VTI
• Leveraged and inverse ETFs such as TQQQ and SQQQ

This range allows traders to manage risk, hedge exposure or take directional positions without leaving a crypto platform.

How do tokenized shares work on Bitget?

Tokenized stocks mirror the price of traditional securities using blockchain-based tokens. On Bitget they trade like crypto pairs, but follow real market prices.

Key features include:

• USDT-settled trading pairs
• Onchain issuance via Ondo Finance
• Price tracking linked to US stocks or ETFs
• Availability alongside crypto, derivatives and forex products

Tokenized shares do not offer voting rights or dividends. They only provide price exposure. By using BNB Chain, settlement is faster and transaction costs are lower compared to traditional brokerage systems.

Why is BlackRock’s BUIDL important? BNB Chain?

BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, known as BUIDL, is live now on BNB Chain. It is the world’s largest tokenized real-world asset fund and recently became the first tokenized Treasury product to pay $100 million in lifetime dividends.

BUIDL is powered by Securitize and Wormhole and is now running on BNB Chain as an additional share class.

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Last November, BUIDL expanded access by launching a new share class BNB Chain. Qualified investors can gain exposure to tokenized US dollar returns on a powerful network.

Secondly, BUIDL will be accepted as collateral on Binance. This allows institutions and advanced traders to deploy capital while maintaining exposure to tokenized Treasuries.

What are super instructions and why are they important?

On January 14 BNB Chain developers announced that Super Instructions are now live BNB Smart Chain via BEP-610.

Super Instructions improve the execution of Ethereum Virtual Machine by replacing high-frequency opcode sequences with some custom instructions. Contract byte code is preprocessed so that repeated instruction patterns are executed atomically.

This change improves execution efficiency without changing consensus rules or requiring a hard fork.

How do superinstructions improve performance?

The motivation is technical. On the BSC mainnet, repetitive compiler-generated instruction patterns dominate gas consumption.

By combining these patterns the network can:

• Reduce the overhead of transmitting opcodes
• Minimize stack shuffling
• Improve throughput without protocol changes

Security measures include differential fuzzing against standard EVM behavior, unused opcode ranges, and bounded background optimization to prevent denial-of-service risks.

Backwards compatibility is maintained. Bytecode remains unchanged and nodes can log in without affecting state consistency.

What is the optimized MIR interpreter?

BNB Chain is also developing a major engine upgrade called the Optimized MIR interpreter. It aims for an improvement of 8 to 27 percent in the execution of smart contracts.

The current EVM uses a stack-based interpreter. This design spends a lot of time managing data structures rather than executing logic.

The new engine improves this in two ways.

How does the new engine work?

First it builds a Control Flow Graph. Execution paths are mapped in advance instead of processing instructions one by one.

Second, it uses registers instead of deep stacks. Data is directly accessible per location.

When a contract is executed for the first time, the engine analyzes it in depth. The optimized path is cached, making future calls faster. Popular contracts benefit the most from this approach.

What do the newest ones do? BNB Display chain network statistics?

BNB Chain shared his weekly data snapshot from January 1 to January 7.

Key statistics include:

• Average daily active users on BSC: 2,485,950
• Average daily active users on opBNB: 1,805,364
• Total number of transactions on BSC: 98,613,140
• Total number of transactions on opBNB: 22,122,189
• Total trading volume: $43.8 billion
• Total value locked: $10.6 billion

These figures show stable usage across both execution tiers, with trading activity remaining strong.

What was the Fermi hard fork and why is it important?

The Fermi hard forkwent live on January 14th at block height 75,140,593. It reduced block time BNB Smart Chain from 0.75 seconds to 0.45 seconds.

Fermi is part of BNB Chain’s 2026 technology roadmap and completes the Short Block Interval Roadmap.

What has changed after the Fermi upgrade?

The most visible change is the production speed of the blocks. BNB Smart Chain now produces roughly two to three blocks per second.

Key improvements include:

• Shorter block intervals for faster confirmations
• Improved validator coordination under load
• More reliable fast finality
• Better block propagation
• Improved performance for real-time applications

These changes are intended to keep transaction confirmation predictable as network usage grows.

What is the USD 1 Trade competition?

On January 14 BNB Chain announced a USD 1 trade competition in collaboration with World Freedom Fi, Celebrate memeand Aster DEX.

The program bets worth $250,000 USD 1 as onchain liquidity support among BNB Chain’s $100 million liquidity incentive program.

The distribution of funding includes:

• $100,000 USD 1 by BNB Chain
• $150,000 USD 1 from World Liberty Fi

Eligible trading pairs include projects created on Four Meme using USD 1 or those with active USD 1 liquidity pools. No application is required. All qualifying pairs are automatically entered.

The evaluation is based on price movements, trading volume and market participation. The program runs from Jan. 15. until January 25, 2026.

Conclusion

This week BNB Chain updates show steady progress in infrastructure, trading and real-world asset integration. Tokenized stocks expanded access to traditional markets. BlackRock’s BUIDL continued its onchain rollout. Core upgrades such as Super Instructions and the Fermi hard fork improved execution speed and reliability. Network data confirmed consistent usage across BSC and opBNB.

Together, these updates highlight BNB Chain’s current capabilities as a high-throughput settlement layer for trading, tokenized assets, and decentralized applications.

Sources

1. BNB Chain on X: Messages (January 2026)

2. BNB Chain developers on X: Messages (January 2026)

3. BNB Chain Github 1: About v1.6.2

4. Press release from Bitget: Bitget deepens partnership with Ondo with 98 new US stocks and ETFs

5. BNB Chain blog: Recent announcements