{
  "schema_version": "intent.v1",
  "slug": "build-on-bnb-smart-chain",
  "title": "build a dApp on BNB Smart Chain (BSC)",
  "chain": "bsc",
  "audience": "builder",
  "prompt": "I want to build and ship an app on BNB Smart Chain (BSC)",
  "maps_to": [
    "bsc",
    "bnb-chain",
    "evm",
    "low-cost-execution",
    "consumer-apps"
  ],
  "stack": [
    {
      "slug": "biconomy",
      "role": "transactions_and_paymasters",
      "reason": "Smart accounts, bundlers, and paymasters on BSC for gasless onboarding so users don't need BNB to start."
    },
    {
      "slug": "pyth",
      "role": "oracle_and_price_data",
      "reason": "Pull-based price feeds are live on BNB Chain for DeFi, perps, and pricing logic."
    },
    {
      "slug": "the-graph",
      "role": "indexing_and_data",
      "reason": "Index BSC contract events with subgraphs instead of hand-rolling an indexer; BNB Mainnet is supported."
    },
    {
      "slug": "safe",
      "role": "supporting_protocol",
      "reason": "Multisig treasury and admin controls for protocol operations on BSC."
    },
    {
      "slug": "gelato",
      "role": "automation",
      "reason": "Scheduled and event-driven execution (keepers, limit orders) on BNB Chain."
    }
  ],
  "excluded_candidates": [
    {
      "slug": "ens",
      "reason": "ENS naming is Ethereum-mainnet centric and is not a native BSC identity layer; resolve names cross-chain only if you specifically need ENS."
    }
  ],
  "risks": [
    "BSC's security and decentralization assumptions differ from Ethereum and major L2s; weigh this for high-value or trust-minimized use cases.",
    "Liquidity and tooling skew toward BSC-native protocols (e.g. PancakeSwap); a protocol being EVM-compatible does not guarantee a live BSC deployment, so verify contract addresses per chain."
  ],
  "next_steps": [
    "Point your deployment and RPC at BNB Smart Chain (chain id 56) and confirm each dependency's BSC contract addresses.",
    "Wire gasless onboarding with a BSC paymaster so first-time users transact without holding BNB.",
    "Index the contracts you ship with a BSC subgraph before building dashboards or activity feeds."
  ],
  "why": "BNB Smart Chain is a high-throughput, low-fee EVM L1 with deep retail distribution. The credible building blocks are the chain-agnostic infrastructure that has verified BSC deployments — account abstraction, oracles, indexing, multisig, and automation — composed the same way as on any EVM chain.",
  "verified_at": "2026-06-10"
}