BNB Chain's evolution in 2025 marks a pivotal shift—moving beyond its identity as an economical alternative L1 to establish itself as a genuine high-performance infrastructure. The Lorentz upgrade (April) followed by Maxwell (June) are architecting what's being called the Fermi era, introducing game-changing innovations like Parallel Execution via BEP-7928 and Super Instructions that fundamentally reshape how the chain handles demanding workloads. These aren't just incremental improvements; they're designed to turbocharge both DeFi protocols and AI-native applications, directly addressing the performance bottlenecks that have limited blockchain adoption in compute-heavy scenarios.