BNB price traded near $704 on Aug. 24 after gaining almost 16% in seven days, as momentum from the broader crypto rally and the upcoming Pasteur hard fork kept buyers in control.
BNB Chain activates Pasteur on Aug. 25, requiring client v1.7.7 while strengthening validator security and expanding tested capacity.
The BNB Chain community is counting down with two days left until the Pasteur hard fork.
The exploit underscores vulnerabilities in cross-chain bridges, prompting a reevaluation of security protocols and trust in decentralized finance. Sandbox halts Base and BNB Chain bridging after exploit mints billions of unbacked SAND tokens.
The Sandbox disabled bridging on affected networks to isolate tokens and warned users not to trade SAND on Base and BNB, citing an impact of under 0.01% of supply.
On August 25, 2026, BNB Smart Chain activates the Pasteur hardfork. If you hold BNB, delegate it or plan a BEP20 transfer, this is the sourced guide to what you need to do, what happens on its own and how to tell when the real moment arrives.
YZi Labs-backed BounceBit has announced plans to permanently cease its BounceBit Chain. Instead of repairing the network, BounceBit plans to redeem BB as a BEP-20 token on BNB Chain.
MUBARAK has risen 26.1% to $0.0266 as BNB Chain meme tokens have attracted fresh trading activity alongside a $200,000 network campaign. MUBARAK price leads BNB Chain gains CoinGecko data showed MUBARAK trading at $0.0266, up 26.
An attacker stole 286.54 million BB tokens valued at approximately $3 million by exploiting an authorization flaw in the Evmos architecture. Block production on the Layer 1 network was halted at height 20,702,857 to stop unauthorized transfers. The protocol will issue a new BEP-20 token on BNB Chain based on a pre-exploit snapshot.
The migration to BNB Chain highlights the critical need for robust security measures in blockchain infrastructure to prevent future exploits. BounceBit to shut down its L1 chain and migrate to BNB Chain after 286.5M BB exploit.
BNB price rose 3.37% to $648.68 after breaking $621.94 resistance, aided by a new Microsoft Azure cloud partnership for BNB Agent Studio.
Whale increased BNB exposure by 13% but smart money investors scaled back.