Binance Chain (BNB)

What are Binance Chain and Binance DEX?

Binance Chain is a blockchain software system developed by Binance and its community. Binance DEX refers to the decentralized exchange features developed on top of the Binance Chain.

What can I do with Binance Chain?

The purpose of the new blockchain and DEX is to create an alternative marketplace for issuing and exchanging digital assets in a decentralized manner.

You can:

  • Send and receive BNB

  • Issue new tokens to digitalize assets, and use Binance Chain as underlying exchange/transfer network for the assets

  • Send, receive, burn/mint and freeze/unfreeze tokens

  • Propose to create trading pairs between two different tokens

  • Send orders to buy or sell assets through trading pairs created on the chain

  • Watch the DEX market to confirm the price and market activity of certain assets

You can also:

  • Explore the transaction history and blocks on the chain, via Binance Chain Explorer, API and node RPC interfaces.

  • Run a full node to listen to and broadcast live updates on transactions, blocks, and consensus activities

  • Extract other data of Binance Chain via full node or APIs

  • Apply to run a validator node

  • Develop tools and applications to help users use Binance Chain and Binance DEX

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