BNB Chain Extends Gas-Free Carnival Until 2025, Boosting Stablecoin Adoption

BNB Chain, a community-driven blockchain ecosystem, has extended its Gas-Free Carnival, allowing users to continue enjoying gas-free stablecoin transfers, including USDT and USD1, on leading exchanges and wallets until July 31, 2025. This extension aims to enhance the user experience by making stablecoin transactions more accessible and cost-efficient. The campaign, which began on September 20, 2024, has already covered over $4 million in stablecoin gas fees, significantly reducing transaction costs for users.

The renewed phase of the Gas-Free Carnival focuses on USDT and USD1, two of the most widely used stablecoins within the BNB Chain ecosystem. Earlier gas-free campaigns involving other stablecoins will conclude on June 30, 2025. This initiative underscores BNB Chain's commitment to fostering a seamless and cost-effective environment for stablecoin transactions.

In May and June 2025, BNB Chain ranked #1 across all blockchains in both stablecoin transaction volume and monthly active users (MAU), indicating a growing adoption and preference for the ecosystem. As stablecoin adoption continues to accelerate on BNB Chain, the total stablecoin market cap now exceeds $10 billion. Notably, the Trump Family's WLFI Stablecoin USD1 anchors its ecosystem on BNB Chain, with over 90% of its USD1 stablecoin supply deployed natively.

The campaign offers users three main features: zero-fee stablecoin withdrawals from leading centralized exchanges (CEXs), gas-free transfers via partner wallets, and free cross-chain stablecoin transfers. Users can withdraw USDT and USD1 to BSC and opBNB with zero withdrawal fees from participating CEXs, including Binance, Bitget, MEXC, Bitmart, Ourbit, BingX, LBank, and HTX. This allows users to move their funds at full value without deductions.

BNB Chain is sponsoring gas fees for stablecoin transfers through various partner wallets, including Binance Wallet, Trust Wallet, Bitget Wallet, SafePal, TokenPocket, Wello, Gate Wallet, Mathwallet, UXUY, imToken, Coin98 Super Wallet, Reveel, and Fizen. Each wallet address can have up to two free USDT transfers and unlimited USD1 transfers per day on BSC.

Additionally, BNB Chain has partnered with Celer cBridge and Meson.fi to enable gas-free USDT transfers from other chains to BSC, such as Ethereum, Arbitrum, Polygon, and Avalanche. This integration helps users move assets across ecosystems without the usual bridging costs.

Beyond facilitating gas-free transactions, the Gas-Free Carnival extends opportunities for users to maximize stablecoin utility through staking, yield farming, and liquidity mining on top DeFi protocols such as Lista, Aave, Kinza Finance, PancakeSwap, Thena, Aster, and Uniswap. This initiative not only enhances the user experience but also encourages greater participation in the DeFi ecosystem.

BNB Chain is composed of BNB Smart Chain (BSC), a secure DeFi hub with the lowest gas fees of any EVM-compatible L1; opBNB, a scalability L2 that delivers some of the lowest gas fees of any L2 and rapid processing speeds; and BNB Greenfield, which meets decentralized storage needs for the ecosystem and lets users establish their own data marketplaces. The ecosystem also offers a range of monetary and ecosystem rewards as part of its Builder Support Program.

The extension of the Gas-Free Carnival is a strategic move by BNB Chain to further solidify its position as a leading blockchain ecosystem for stablecoin transactions. By removing transaction cost barriers and enhancing user experience, BNB Chain aims to attract more users and foster greater adoption of stablecoins within its ecosystem. This initiative is expected to drive further growth and innovation in the stablecoin market, benefiting both users and the broader blockchain community.