Jenner hard fork on October 28, 2026: What it means for the BNB price
Published on 10/23/2026 at 18:37 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWSProtocol timing and network use
- BNB Chain plans a Jenner testnet activation on October 28, 2026.
- The 37th quarterly burn retired 1.646 million BNB on October 19, 2026.
- The BNB price stands at 749.80 USD as of October 23, 2026, 2.11 percent above the UTC daily close of October 22, 2026.
- Q3 network revenue reached 54.2 million USD while daily active addresses averaged 2.10 million.
BNB (BNB) is scheduled for the Jenner hard fork on October 28, 2026, with a testnet activation that introduces a payment lane and millisecond block timestamps, according to Crypto Times. The BNB price stands at 749.80 USD as of October 23, 2026, up 2.11 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 22, 2026.
Jenner changes arrive October 28
The Jenner hard fork is a protocol upgrade that changes network rules on the BNB Smart Chain testnet. The scheduled changes include Payment Lane, which reserves 5 percent of each block's gas capacity for eligible payment transactions, and more precise timestamps that let smart contracts read block time in milliseconds, according to Crypto Times.
BNB Chain also completed its 37th quarterly token burn on October 19, 2026. The BNB Foundation said through its official BNB Chain blog that 1,646,196.44 BNB was sent to a blackhole address, a destination designed to make tokens permanently unusable, leaving 131,512,085 BNB in total supply at the stated time.
Network revenue rises as users decline
BNB Smart Chain processed 1.51 billion transactions in the third quarter of 2026, up 7.5 percent from the second quarter, while network real economic value reached 54.2 million USD, according to Blockworks. The report includes 49.1 million USD in transaction fees and 5.1 million USD in maximal extractable value payments, which are payments linked to transaction ordering and block construction.
The same report recorded an average of 2.10 million daily active addresses in the third quarter, down 14 percent from 2.43 million in the second quarter. Transactions per active address averaged 7.8, compared with 6.3 in the prior quarter, while the average transaction fee rose to 0.032 USD.
BNB price data on October 23
The BNB price is 749.80 USD as of October 23, 2026, according to Investing.com. It is 2.11 percent above the UTC daily close of October 22, 2026, with a daily high of 750.40 USD and a daily low of 739.90 USD for the UTC day. Market capitalization is 98.48 billion USD, ranking BNB fourth, while 24-hour volume is 1.34 billion USD and circulating supply is 131.51 million BNB.
BNB by the numbers on October 23, 2026
- Cryptocurrency: BNB
- Ticker: BNB
- Price (as of October 23, 2026): 749.80 USD
- Change vs. UTC daily close of October 22, 2026: +2.11 percent
- Daily high / daily low (UTC day): 750.40 USD / 739.90 USD
- Market capitalization: 98.48 billion USD (rank 4)
- 24-hour volume: 1.34 billion USD
- Circulating supply: 131.51 million BNB
- Next substantiated date: Jenner hard fork testnet activation on October 28, 2026
