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BNB Chain’s 2025 Annual Awards celebrate its 5th anniversary by honoring the most innovative and impactful projects in Web3. Voting is now open through Sept 3 on DappBay.
Author: Sahil Thakur
BNB Chain has officially launched the 2025 edition of its Annual Awards, a major community-led initiative to recognize standout projects and contributors in the Web3 ecosystem. The awards coincide with the chain’s fifth anniversary on September 1, marking a critical milestone in its evolution as a high-performance, decentralized platform.
Voting is now open and will remain active until September 3, with winners to be announced on September 5.
This year’s awards go beyond on-chain metrics. They emphasize long-term ecosystem impact, real-world adoption, and innovation in areas like AI, DeFi, RWAs, and stablecoins. Winners receive global recognition across BNB Chain’s multilingual platforms, along with access to growth programs such as MVB and Launch-as-a-Service (LaaS).
The campaign is part of broader BNB Day celebrations, which include community events in cities like Mumbai, Tokyo, New York, São Paulo, and Hong Kong, as well as online campaigns distributing $480,000+ in tokens, NFTs, and merchandise.
The process is fully community-driven and split into three phases:
This model reflects BNB Chain’s broader commitment to decentralization, transparency, and open governance.
There are five award categories, each spotlighting a key vertical in the Web3 ecosystem:
Recognizes post-2024 projects with strong momentum and growth potential.
Finalists include:
Highlights projects pushing the frontier of AI-Web3 integration.
Finalists include:
Focuses on protocols driving consistent trading activity and liquidity.
Finalists include:
Rewards innovation in RWAs, stablecoins, and emerging verticals like DePIN.
Finalists include:
Recognizes outstanding UX, design, and community interaction.
Finalists include:
Voting activity has been robust across social platforms, particularly X (formerly Twitter), where the finalists announcement generated over 350,000 views. Multiple finalists have launched campaigns and quests to engage their user bases:
This dynamic engagement highlights the awards’ role in amplifying visibility for both established protocols and emerging teams.
Award recipients gain more than visibility. They receive:
For BNB Chain, the awards reinforce its position as a top-tier EVM-compatible L1 and L2 ecosystem. As of August 2025, the chain records:
Initiatives like the Maxwell upgrade and Greenfield decentralized storage further expand BNB Chain’s infrastructure capabilities.
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