Binance Launches opBNB: A New Landscape for Universal Rollups
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Binance Launches opBNB: A New Landscape for Universal Rollups
Did Binance really just fork Optimism and launch their own L2? Or are they executing a bigger vision?
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsAuthor: Overcollateralized Jonny
Compiled by: TechFlow
A new rollup has entered the Layer 2 race—Binance has just announced an Optimistic Rollup called opBNB, which is already live on testnet. Has Binance simply forked Optimism and launched its own L2? Or are they pursuing a broader vision? Crypto researcher Overcollateralized Jonny explores this in the article.
opBNB is built on the base version of the Optimism OP Stack and is EVM-compatible. This rollup is built atop the existing BNB Chain, rather than Ethereum mainnet (unlike most Optimistic Rollups we've seen so far).
Binance claims that opBNB will raise the gas limit to a "staggering 100M," surpassing Optimism's 30M gas limit (as per their article). They state that opBNB will be capable of processing 4,000 transactions per second, with average transaction costs below half a cent. BNB will remain the native currency of the opBNB chain.
The new rollup will have "native integration" with the BNB ecosystem, meaning users can expect withdrawal experiences similar to those on the existing BNB Chain—and directly from Binance CEX.
In their documentation, they appear to suggest implementing Proto-Danksharding and eventually Danksharding into the existing BNB Chain where possible. They’ve also announced their own dedicated storage layer called BNB Greenfield.
The team seems focused on targeting gaming and NFT sectors to compete with low-cost, easy-access platforms like Polygon. Gaming, metaverse, and social networks are mentioned multiple times in their documentation and announcements.
Currently, competition in the general-purpose rollup space is intense. With new ZK-Rollups entering the space previously dominated by Optimistic Rollups, developer attention is highly fragmented.
The BNBCHAIN team is betting that the migration of its large existing BSC ecosystem onto this new opBNB chain will bootstrap the ecosystem. Can their current community make the transition successfully? Will this ultimately fragment user bases and liquidity across their two existing chains?
Their documentation states that opBNB will be interoperable with other L2 platforms "like Optimism." Does this mean it will connect to Optimism’s Superchain? If so, this could soon enable significant interoperability between opBNB, Optimism, and Coinbase’s Base L2.
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