BNB Smart Chain tops rankings with 4.86M active addresses in 24 hours

DeFiLlama data shows BNB Chain more than doubling Solana's daily activity and lapping Ethereum several times over BNB Smart Chain just posted the kind of number that makes rival chains check their dashboards twice. The network logged 4.86 million active addresses in a single 24-hour window, the highest of any public blockchain. The numbers behind the lead The data, reported by DeFiLlama, covers activity on November 9, 2026. BNB Chain’s 4.86 million active addresses led a field of heavyweight competitors. Solana came in second with approximately 1.97 million active addresses. Ethereum followed with around 535,100, while Coinbase-incubated layer-2 Base registered about 311,800. Put another way, BNB Chain was 2.47 times more active than Solana by this measure. Against Ethereum, the gap widens to 9.08 times. The distance between first and second place was more than 2.88 million addresses. For context, an active address is simply a wallet that sent or received a transaction during the period. Think of it like counting how many keycards got swiped at an office building in a day: it tells you about foot traffic, not necessarily how many unique employees showed up. Ethereum’s position dese...