BNB Chain plans 2027 launch date for AI agent L1 rollout
The post BNB Chain plans 2027 launch date for AI agent L1 rollout appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. BNB Chain disclosed today that it is already setting up the stack for the projected boom in on-chain agentic activity as it announced the ongoing development of a separate Layer 1 blockchain tuned for autonomous trading agents. The Binance-linked blockchain network said that the testnet is expected to become public by late 2026, with mainnet to launch in early 2027, according to its H2 2026 technical roadmap. BNB Chain, which already has BNB Smart Chain (BSC), opBNB, and Greenfield, is pitching the fourth chain in its stack as the solution for workloads its older chain was not designed for, rather than a replacement for the existing $8.4 billion DeFi ecosystem on BSC, per DeFiLlama data. Splitting BSC’s liquidity across the new chain is a real possibility that the technical team is planning to get ahead of. The plan, according to the project’s CTO, is to connect the new chain to BSC t