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

The launch of Aster drove BNB Chain fees to $1.4 million.

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 million.

BNB 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 million.

This 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 blockspace.

As of September 23, Aster’s TVL reached $1.52 billion, according to DefiLlama, following a sharp uptick in the month’s final week. The influx of liquidity indicates that users are turning to Aster for decentralized trading and yield farming. Reflecting this momentum, the platform briefly overtook Hyperliquid in daily trading volume. Over the past 24 hours, Aster recorded a trading volume of $515.51 million, which pushed its weekly volume above $3 billion.

This growing user engagement on Aster and record-breaking fee activity can also be seen in the broader surge in BNB Chain’s overall network adoption.

Data 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 21st. This 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.

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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 days. This ranking reflects the volume of development events, such as smart contract updates, protocol enhancements, and ecosystem integrations. BNB Chain is trailing only Ethereum, while outpacing other prominent networks like Polygon, Optimism, and Arbitrum.

BNB 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 downtrend. After recently joining the four-digit club, the token rebounded sharply even as other major coins struggled.

BNB climbed nearly 10% over the past week, standing out among its peers who largely remained in the red. Despite wider market weakness, it was currently trading at $1,016.