{
  "schema_version": "chain.v1",
  "slug": "bsc",
  "name": "BNB Smart Chain (BSC)",
  "chain_id": 56,
  "ecosystem": "bnb",
  "website": "https://www.bnbchain.org/",
  "explorer": "https://bscscan.com/",
  "rpc_docs": "https://docs.bnbchain.org/",
  "summary": "EVM-compatible chain with broad retail usage and BNB ecosystem liquidity.",
  "best_for": [
    "BNB ecosystem applications",
    "EVM apps targeting lower transaction costs and retail distribution"
  ],
  "tradeoffs": [
    "Security and decentralization assumptions differ from Ethereum and major L2s"
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "verified_at": "2026-06-02",
    "verified_by": "composewith",
    "confidence": "medium"
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "BNB Chain docs",
      "url": "https://docs.bnbchain.org/",
      "type": "docs"
    }
  ],
  "protocol_count": 15,
  "chain_scoped_intents": [
    {
      "slug": "build-on-bnb-smart-chain",
      "title": "build a dApp on BNB Smart Chain (BSC)",
      "stack": [
        "biconomy",
        "pyth",
        "the-graph",
        "safe",
        "gelato"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "protocols": [
    {
      "slug": "pyth",
      "name": "Pyth Network",
      "summary": "Low-latency oracle network for price feeds and market data used by DeFi applications.",
      "categories": [
        "data",
        "oracles",
        "price-feeds"
      ],
      "readiness_score": 82,
      "chain_readiness_score": 74,
      "chain_support_status": "production-ready",
      "has_chain_support_record": true,
      "integration_difficulty": "medium"
    },
    {
      "slug": "safe",
      "name": "Safe",
      "summary": "Smart account infrastructure for multisigs, treasury operations, and programmable account controls.",
      "categories": [
        "accounts",
        "multisig",
        "smart-accounts"
      ],
      "readiness_score": 80,
      "chain_readiness_score": 74,
      "chain_support_status": "production-ready",
      "has_chain_support_record": true,
      "integration_difficulty": "low"
    },
    {
      "slug": "the-graph",
      "name": "The Graph",
      "summary": "Decentralized indexing protocol for querying blockchain data through subgraphs.",
      "categories": [
        "data",
        "indexing",
        "subgraphs"
      ],
      "readiness_score": 80,
      "chain_readiness_score": 74,
      "chain_support_status": "production-ready",
      "has_chain_support_record": true,
      "integration_difficulty": "medium"
    },
    {
      "slug": "uniswap",
      "name": "Uniswap",
      "summary": "Onchain automated market maker for token swaps and liquidity, with v4 hooks for customizable pools, the Universal Router for trade routing, and TypeScript SDKs for integration.",
      "categories": [
        "defi",
        "dex",
        "amm",
        "liquidity"
      ],
      "readiness_score": 94,
      "chain_readiness_score": 74,
      "chain_support_status": "production-ready",
      "has_chain_support_record": true,
      "integration_difficulty": "medium"
    },
    {
      "slug": "biconomy",
      "name": "Biconomy",
      "summary": "Account abstraction tooling for smart accounts, paymasters, bundlers, and gasless onboarding.",
      "categories": [
        "accounts",
        "paymasters",
        "gasless"
      ],
      "readiness_score": 79,
      "chain_readiness_score": 68,
      "chain_support_status": "production-ready",
      "has_chain_support_record": true,
      "integration_difficulty": "medium"
    },
    {
      "slug": "gelato",
      "name": "Gelato",
      "summary": "Automation, relaying, and web3 functions infrastructure for scheduled and event-driven execution.",
      "categories": [
        "automation",
        "relayers",
        "web3-functions"
      ],
      "readiness_score": 79,
      "chain_readiness_score": 68,
      "chain_support_status": "production-ready",
      "has_chain_support_record": true,
      "integration_difficulty": "medium"
    },
    {
      "slug": "chainlink",
      "name": "Chainlink",
      "summary": "Decentralized oracle network providing price feeds, verifiable randomness (VRF), automation, and cross-chain messaging (CCIP) to smart contracts.",
      "categories": [
        "oracles",
        "data",
        "price-feeds",
        "cross-chain"
      ],
      "readiness_score": 100,
      "chain_readiness_score": 50,
      "chain_support_status": "claimed",
      "has_chain_support_record": false,
      "integration_difficulty": "medium"
    },
    {
      "slug": "fluidkey",
      "name": "Fluidkey",
      "summary": "Self-custodial privacy dApp for receiving, managing, and spending onchain funds through stealth-address smart accounts and a unified wallet interface.",
      "categories": [
        "privacy",
        "wallets",
        "stealth-addresses",
        "payments"
      ],
      "readiness_score": 93,
      "chain_readiness_score": 50,
      "chain_support_status": "claimed",
      "has_chain_support_record": false,
      "integration_difficulty": "medium"
    },
    {
      "slug": "goldsky",
      "name": "Goldsky",
      "summary": "Realtime crypto data pipelines, subgraphs, and streaming infrastructure for app data products.",
      "categories": [
        "data",
        "indexing",
        "realtime"
      ],
      "readiness_score": 79,
      "chain_readiness_score": 50,
      "chain_support_status": "claimed",
      "has_chain_support_record": false,
      "integration_difficulty": "medium"
    },
    {
      "slug": "hyperlane",
      "name": "Hyperlane",
      "summary": "Permissionless interoperability protocol for crosschain messaging and custom interchain security.",
      "categories": [
        "crosschain",
        "messaging",
        "interoperability"
      ],
      "readiness_score": 84,
      "chain_readiness_score": 50,
      "chain_support_status": "claimed",
      "has_chain_support_record": false,
      "integration_difficulty": "high"
    },
    {
      "slug": "layerzero",
      "name": "LayerZero",
      "summary": "Omnichain interoperability protocol for passing arbitrary messages and moving tokens between chains via on-chain endpoints and configurable verification.",
      "categories": [
        "interoperability",
        "cross-chain",
        "messaging"
      ],
      "readiness_score": 87,
      "chain_readiness_score": 50,
      "chain_support_status": "claimed",
      "has_chain_support_record": false,
      "integration_difficulty": "high"
    },
    {
      "slug": "privy",
      "name": "Privy",
      "summary": "Embedded wallet and auth infrastructure for onboarding users with email, socials, and wallets.",
      "categories": [
        "identity",
        "wallets",
        "onboarding"
      ],
      "readiness_score": 82,
      "chain_readiness_score": 50,
      "chain_support_status": "claimed",
      "has_chain_support_record": false,
      "integration_difficulty": "low"
    },
    {
      "slug": "railgun",
      "name": "RAILGUN",
      "summary": "Onchain zero-knowledge privacy system and SDK for shielding ERC-20 tokens, private transfers, and private DeFi interactions on major EVM chains.",
      "categories": [
        "privacy",
        "zero-knowledge",
        "defi",
        "wallets"
      ],
      "readiness_score": 91,
      "chain_readiness_score": 50,
      "chain_support_status": "claimed",
      "has_chain_support_record": false,
      "integration_difficulty": "high"
    },
    {
      "slug": "zerodev",
      "name": "ZeroDev",
      "summary": "Smart account infrastructure for ERC-4337 and EIP-7702 apps, including Kernel accounts, bundlers, paymasters, session keys, gas sponsorship, and chain abstraction.",
      "categories": [
        "accounts",
        "paymasters",
        "gasless",
        "wallets",
        "automation",
        "chain-abstraction"
      ],
      "readiness_score": 100,
      "chain_readiness_score": 50,
      "chain_support_status": "claimed",
      "has_chain_support_record": false,
      "integration_difficulty": "medium"
    },
    {
      "slug": "erc-8004",
      "name": "ERC-8004",
      "summary": "Trustless agent discovery and trust infrastructure using onchain identity, reputation, and validation registries for autonomous agents.",
      "categories": [
        "agents",
        "identity",
        "reputation",
        "validation"
      ],
      "readiness_score": 78,
      "chain_readiness_score": 40,
      "chain_support_status": "claimed",
      "has_chain_support_record": false,
      "integration_difficulty": "medium"
    }
  ]
}