BNB Chain has revealed its roadmap for a new layer 1 blockchain focused on agentic trading, with a testnet planned for late 2026 and a mainnet launch expected in early 2027, according to The Block.

The network will complement the existing BNB Chain stack and is designed to achieve sub-50-millisecond transaction preconfirmation, eliminate the public mempool to make common front-running attacks more difficult, and eventually process more than 100,000 transactions per second.

The project said the new chain targets narrowing the performance gap between decentralized trading and centralized exchanges while preserving self-custody.

Alongside the announcement, BNB Chain said it is researching quantum-resistant security and reported recent upgrades to BNB Smart Chain, including shorter block times and significantly higher transaction throughput.

The agent economy is already here

BNB Chain recently introduced BNB Agent Studio, a new development platform created in partnership with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center that simplifies the creation of autonomous AI agents. Developers can build and deploy agents in roughly 15 minutes using a text prompt, with the platform automatically configuring infrastructure, identity, crypto payments, hosting and AI services.

The company said agents built through the platform can earn income, pay for their own operations and maintain persistent identities using ERC-8004 digital identities secured by users’ private keys.