Recently, it was noticed that opBNB completed a key hard fork upgrade, reducing block confirmation time from 500 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds, doubling performance. This L2 solution is positioned as a high-performance execution layer for the BNB Chain, theoretically capable of handling higher transaction throughput.

But there's something worth pondering—BNB Chain itself already has quite good speed and Gas costs, and user experience is already at an upstream level among mainstream public chains. So what exactly does the emergence of opBNB fill in the market? 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 race?

Looking back at the once-popular inscriptions trend, there were indeed scenarios requiring ultra-high-performance chains, but the market enthusiasm has now subsided. Whether opBNB can find stable application scenarios still depends on subsequent ecosystem development.