BNB/USD price feed
BNB is the native asset of BNB Chain, the network that grew out of the world's largest exchange ecosystem. Few major assets carry their ecosystem's character so plainly: a coin born on an exchange, traded with an exchange's rhythm.
Aggregate on-chain rate: hourly view of the last 4 weeks. The API itself updates block by block. Request API access
Book composition · auto-observed
The lead pool carries the biggest single share at the moment, at well under half of the total: this book is genuinely shared.
The exchange chain's own asset
BNB pays for gas on BNB Chain plus backs positions across its DeFi. It began life inside an exchange ecosystem, which still shapes how it trades: most volume clears on centralized venues, while the on-chain market grew up inside the chain's own economy rather than being exported to others. That self-containment shapes everything below.
A coin's home market concentrates where its applications run. The feed does not fight that; it reads the venues that actually hold size, wherever they sit, with the current spread recorded by the data layer rather than promised in prose. What a home-heavy book gives back is coherence, the asset priced where its economy actually runs.
For a major asset that is unusual. Ether spreads across a dozen chains, bitcoin roams in wrappers; BNB's economy has always kept closer to home. The page reports the market that exists, at the size it exists.
USDT returns the favor
Readers of this catalog's USDT page have seen half of this map before. There, BNB Chain figures as one of the tether dollar's busiest homes; here the favor returns, with tether venues entering BNB's own book wherever they hold real size.
Two pages agreeing from opposite directions is worth pausing on. One composition is computed from USDT's pools, the other from BNB's, yet where they overlap they describe the same economy: an exchange-flavored ecosystem that settles heavily in dollar tokens. When independent compositions confirm each other, both numbers gain credibility.
That cross-confirmation is a catalog property rather than a page property. The more pairs this catalog covers, the more of these mutual checks exist between pages, quietly, for free.
There is a practical corollary for anyone consuming both rates. A desk pricing USDT exposure on BNB Chain plus BNB exposure itself may be reading two numbers that lean on overlapping pools from opposite ends; knowing that overlap can exist is part of understanding either number. The catalog makes overlap visible instead of hiding it inside a methodology document.
Majors triangulating
The quote list has read like a majors desk: bitcoin through its pegged wrapper, Ether, both big dollars, each reading BNB from its own side. Even the past leaves traces: dollars that once ruled the chain have lingered at the edge of the book, composition as history lesson.
Legs that differ in nature check one another. A move confirmed across the dollar, bitcoin plus Ether legs at once is a move in BNB itself, not an artifact of one pool's flow; that is as much triangulation as a feed can ask for.
What a home-grown book cannot provide is an outside reading; this page says so plainly. If BNB's on-chain market spreads further afield, the composition will record it the week it happens.
A high-frequency book
The volume stands out even in this catalog: hundreds of millions of dollars clear through these pools in a typical week, against a few million in resting depth. This is a book fed by constant small flow, the signature of a retail-heavy ecosystem in continuous motion.
For a feed, frequency is nourishment. A rate recomputed against pools trading around the clock gets re-tested continuously; the quiet stretches where a price could quietly go stale do not occur here. On this book the interval between meaningful trades is measured in seconds.
Depth stays modest relative to that flow, which fits how the asset is used: high-frequency settlement rather than parked positions. The rate serves the traffic that is actually there, in the shape it actually has.
Who runs on this rate
Builders on BNB Chain
Integrations settling in BNB need its dollar rate computed from live venues rather than assumed; this feed publishes one with depth stated beside it.
Perpetuals plus margin desks
BNB-margined books mark against a computed rate tested by one of the busiest books in this catalog.
Treasuries with BNB positions
Positions on the exchange chain get reported in dollars; the composition behind this rate is public plus reproducible.
Where the BNB market lives
Active BNB/USD pools per chain, as observed by the feed on 2026-10-27.
BNB in the catalog
7 pairs, each computed from its own pools with the same methodology:
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