1. BNB Chain Key Data Highlight

2. Major Announcements
- A comprehensive response on the events in the past week and the decisive actions of our broader community.
- BNB Smart Chain node client with urgent fixes has been finalized, v1.1.16 is here
- BNB Chain's Web3 European Innovation Incubator is live with $50k Prize, complementary Auditing, expert tokenomics consultations, gas fee incentives and access to accelerators .
3. Ecosystem Highlights
- BNB Chain Ecosystem Explorer campaign held alongside Helio Money
- BNB Chain is teaming up with P12 and Quest3 to bring you a Web3 gaming carnival - P12 Arcana this October
- Indian Community Diwali Fest campaign with a chance of winning up to $500 worth of rewards and SWAG
- XDAO city quest begins
- Monstera's roadmap updated
- Stader Labs BNB staking results
Monthly Star Progress
We have our 8 project stars this month, they are: Stella Fantasy, p12, DracooWorld, Wombex, Quest3, XDAO, Boba Network, Pyth Network.

4. Events
This week we had a side event in the Future Blockchain Summit as well as a few school tours in Imperial College London, Oxford University, Dartmouth College, Cornell University and Duke University. Our team is at EthLatam this week as well! Online, we have a bunch of innovation talks with XDAO, DracooWorld, Corite, Stella Fantasy, Alpaca Finance, WomWars, Horizon Protocol, Galaxy, Rareboard, Venus, Diario Cripto and Element. Quite a lot!
For the upcoming week we will have:
- HackTX, Oct.15-16, Austin
- Innovation Meetup Bogota, Oct.15, Bogota
- Rice University School Tour, Oct.17, Huston
- Innovation Meetup Medellin, Oct.20, Medellin
- Vietnam Blockchain Summit, Oct.19-20, Hanoi