The BNB has grown substantially this year and it has reached its ATH of $638 today.This price level have been achieved within 3 years of its launch in 2017.The intial use of BNB was to pay transaction fees on Binance and it's value was around $0.15 in the initial time.The users earned rewards with holding tokens and with increase in Binance customer base the demand also increased making BNB coin third largest cryptocurrency just behind ETH and Bitcoin only.BNB was deployed on eth blockchain as ERC-20 token but with Binance announcing Binance Smart chain it shifted to its local blockchain.There are certain reasons for the rise of BNB which are as follows:
1) The Binance smart chain and Defi ecosystem is new home for different project and they all are powered by BNB as gas or we can say it is used to pay transaction fees
2)You can get crypto loans against BNB as collateral on Binance
3)You get discounts on Binance DEX if you are trader by paying transaction fees in BNB and save your money.
4)The increasing customer base of crypto market has increased the trading volumes of Binance making it one of the largest crypto exchange in the world which further powers the growth of BNB coin.
See the the supply chart for BNB:
So we can say that with future developments we can see BNB performing really well and crossing maybe $1k soon this year end.So if you can invest in it now grab the opportunity.
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The growth of BNB