BNB Smart Chain RPC Nodes & Endpoints

Layer 1 (EVM)Gas: BNBChain ID 56

BNB Smart Chain (BSC) is a high-throughput, EVM-compatible Layer 1 with fast blocks, low fees, and some of the deepest DEX liquidity in the market. Its constant trading and bot activity make unthrottled, low-latency RPC a competitive requirement.

Coming soon: BNB Smart Chain node hosting is on our roadmap; Ethereum mainnet is the chain we run in production today. The endpoints below are third-party public RPCs you can use right now.

56
Chain ID
~0.75s
Block Time
BNB
Gas Token
PoSA
Consensus

BNB Smart Chain RPC URLs you can use right now

Third-party endpoints, free and shared. BSC's public RPCs are among the most heavily botted anywhere, so throttling on them tends to be a function of who else found the same URL rather than of your own volume.

BNB Chain (official)
https://bsc-dataseed.bnbchain.org
PublicNode
https://bsc-rpc.publicnode.com
LlamaRPC
https://binance.llamarpc.com

Connect with ethers.js

import { JsonRpcProvider } from "ethers";

const provider = new JsonRpcProvider("https://bsc-dataseed.bnbchain.org");
const blockNumber = await provider.getBlockNumber();
console.log("BNB Smart Chain block:", blockNumber);

Why BSC bots outgrow shared endpoints quickly

BSC's public dataseed endpoints are among the most heavily shared infrastructure in the EVM world, serving wallets, snipers, and dashboards for one of the highest-volume chains anywhere. Under load they throttle, lag behind the chain head, or quietly return stale state, and with blocks arriving every 750 milliseconds, being even two blocks behind means acting on a market that no longer exists. Token launches and DEX volatility make that load spiky in the worst possible way.

A dedicated BNB Smart Chain RPC node keeps you at the head of the chain with your own mempool view, which is where BSC's sniping and market-making edge actually lives. No shared quota decides whether your eth_getLogs range completes. On BLAZED.sh the container model applies here too: your bot runs on the node host and reads over a local socket rather than racing the public internet.

On three-second blocks, the round trip is a large fraction of the block

At 750 millisecond blocks, a public-internet round trip of tens to low hundreds of milliseconds consumes a large fraction of every block window before your logic even runs. The fix is architectural: put the code next to the node. On our live Ethereum product, co-located containers complete RPC calls in under 10 milliseconds, and dedicated BSC nodes will use the same design, with a local socket, no gateway queue, and a mempool subscription served by the very node your code sits on.

Fast blocks, short finality, and the reorgs your indexer has to survive

BNB Smart Chain produces a block every few seconds with a compact validator set, which is what makes it feel responsive and what makes naive indexing fragile. Short block times and rapid validator rotation mean the chain head is genuinely provisional for longer, in block terms, than it is on Ethereum, and BSC has historically seen reorganisations deep enough to invalidate work an indexer had already committed. A pipeline that writes a block's events to a database the moment it sees them will eventually persist a version of history that the chain later discards.

The defence is not a faster endpoint, it is treating recent blocks as revocable. That means tracking block hashes rather than heights alone, holding a rollback window of recent blocks you can unwind, and reconciling against the chain rather than assuming your database is authoritative. Where RPC access does matter is in the cost of that reconciliation: re-walking log ranges and re-reading state after a reorg is exactly the burst of heavy queries a shared endpoint is least willing to serve, which is why the reorg is often when a public-endpoint indexer falls behind and stays behind.

What dedicated BNB Chain node hosting will cost

BLAZED.sh prices node access in per-request credits granted monthly by your subscription, with a deliberately narrow weight spread: most RPC methods cost a single credit, and only a handful of heavy operations cost more. Dedicated BNB Smart Chain nodes will launch on the same credit model, with the waitlist deciding rollout priority.

Bot loops on BSC are overwhelmingly single-credit reads, with txpool_content at a fixed 4 credits, so a strategy's monthly cost is a multiplication you can do before deploying it.

See the full credit price list and plans

Perfect for

DEX trading
Token launches
Bots & MEV
Analytics

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What is BNB Smart Chain?

BNB Smart Chain runs a proof-of-staked-authority consensus with a compact validator set, which delivers short block times and cheap gas paid in BNB. It is fully EVM-compatible under chain ID 56, so Solidity contracts and Ethereum libraries deploy with only an RPC change. BSC sees enormous volumes of DEX swaps, token launches, and MEV activity, and public endpoints frequently rate-limit or lag under that load. Sniping bots, market makers, and analytics platforms on BSC are especially latency-sensitive, so a dedicated node with direct mempool access and no compute-unit metering is often the deciding factor between landing a transaction and missing it.

BNB Chain RPC: frequently asked questions

What is the BNB Smart Chain RPC URL and chain ID?

BSC mainnet uses chain ID 56. An official public RPC is https://bsc-dataseed.bnbchain.org; https://bsc-rpc.publicnode.com is a common alternative.

Is BNB Smart Chain the same as BNB Beacon Chain?

No. BNB Smart Chain (chain ID 56) is the EVM-compatible execution chain you send transactions to. The former Beacon Chain was a separate staking/governance chain and has been sunset.

What is a dedicated BNB Smart Chain RPC node?

A BSC node that serves only your traffic instead of a shared public dataseed URL. Dedicated BNB nodes stay at the chain head under load, expose a full mempool view, and do not apply shared rate limits during token launches. On BLAZED.sh your code will run co-located on the node host for local-socket reads.

Does BLAZED.sh host BNB Chain nodes?

Ethereum mainnet is live now; BNB Chain is planned. Join the waitlist on this page to be notified and to weigh in on prioritisation.

Trading on Ethereum today?

Mainnet is live on BLAZED.sh now: your bot runs on the node host, reads the txpool from the source, and completes calls in under 10 milliseconds.