Recently, I noticed that opBNB completed a critical hard fork upgrade, with block confirmation speed dropping from 500 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds, achieving a doubling in performance. This L2 solution is positioned as a high-performance execution layer for BNB Chain, theoretically capable of handling higher transaction throughput.
However, there's something worth pondering here — BNB Chain itself already has quite impressive speed and Gas costs, with user experience ranking among the top tier in mainstream public chains. So what gap exactly does opBNB's emergence fill? Is it to compete with Ethereum L2s like Arbitrum and Optimism, or is it purely a defensive move to ensure the BNB ecosystem doesn't fall behind in the L2 track?
Looking back at the inscription boom, there were indeed scenarios requiring ultra-high-performance chains, but market enthusiasm has cooled now. Whether opBNB can find stable use cases will ultimately depend on subsequent ecosystem development.
Recently, I noticed that opBNB completed a critical hard fork upgrade, with block confirmation speed dropping from 500 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds, achieving a doubling in performance. This L2 solution is positioned as a high-performance execution layer for BNB Chain, theoretically capable of handling higher transaction throughput.
However, there's something worth pondering here — BNB Chain itself already has quite impressive speed and Gas costs, with user experience ranking among the top tier in mainstream public chains. So what gap exactly does opBNB's emergence fill? Is it to compete with Ethereum L2s like Arbitrum and Optimism, or is it purely a defensive move to ensure the BNB ecosystem doesn't fall behind in the L2 track?
Looking back at the inscription boom, there were indeed scenarios requiring ultra-high-performance chains, but market enthusiasm has cooled now. Whether opBNB can find stable use cases will ultimately depend on subsequent ecosystem development.