BNB Smart Chain recorded 4.86 million active addresses in a single 24-hour window, the highest count of any public blockchain, according to DeFiLlama data covering activity on November 9, 2026.
The figure put BNB Chain well ahead of a field of major competitors in daily address activity.
The numbers behind the lead
Solana ranked second with approximately 1.97 million active addresses. Ethereum followed with around 535,100, while Coinbase-incubated layer-2 Base registered about 311,800.
By that measure, BNB Chain was 2.47 times more active than Solana. Against Ethereum, the gap widened to 9.08 times. The distance between first and second place was more than 2.88 million addresses.
An active address is a wallet that sent or received a transaction during the period. The metric reflects how many wallets were in use, not necessarily how many unique users were behind them.
Ethereum's lower mainnet count partly reflects its design: the base layer has steadily pushed much of its everyday activity onto rollups such as Base.
Why BNB Chain keeps showing up first
The lead was not a one-day anomaly. Across 2025 and 2026, BNB Chain frequently topped monthly and daily active address metrics on multiple analytics platforms.
BNB Chain is a layer-1 blockchain launched by the Binance ecosystem, and its pitch has long centered on cheap, fast transactions aimed at retail traders and decentralized finance users. Decentralized applications do much of the heavy lifting, with PancakeSwap, the decentralized exchange that has become something of a flagship for the chain, consistently drawing high transaction volumes and a large base of daily users.
Recent quarterly reports suggest the ecosystem is still expanding, with growth in areas such as smart contract deployments and AI tooling, although daily active address averages have fluctuated along the way.
Caveats in the metric
Active addresses measure wallets, and one person can control dozens of them. Automated trading bots, airdrop farmers, and promotional campaigns can all inflate the count without adding much genuine economic activity.
For Solana, second place by a wide margin still represents a large and active user base, and the two chains are competing for a similar crowd of cost-sensitive traders. Ethereum and Base trail far behind on raw address counts, but Ethereum's strategy has centered on security, settlement, and a sprawling network of layer-2s that collectively handle retail traffic rather than on winning base-layer address totals.
