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BNB began in 2017 as a Binance fee token, left Ethereum for Binance Chain in 2019 and became gas and stake on BSC in 2020. The 2022 Token Hub exploit and validator-coordinated halt exposed the human decisions behind its two-chain design; the 2024 Fusion and two burn mechanisms reshaped it again.

TRON began with a 2017 content-platform sale, became an independent DPoS chain in 2018 and found its largest observable use as a rail for USDT. TRX now links resource fees, staking, SR elections, issuance and burns.

OKB began with a one-billion-token design, shed 700 million unissued units, split chain duties with OKT, and later became X Layer's gas asset with a stated 21 million supply. The current implementation lacks mint and burn methods, but its Ethereum proxy remains upgradeable and OKX's fee-benefit descriptions vary by market and date.

Aster grew from the merger of Astherus's yield products and APX Finance's perpetual exchange. ASTER now supports staking and validator listing votes, while product access, fee policy and reserve execution remain governed by separate rules and operators.

MNT grew from BitDAO’s 2023 one-brand vote into the gas and governance asset of Mantle Network. The 1:1 conversion, treasury burn, ZK-rollup upgrades and mETH products are related chapters, but they confer different rights and depend on different administrators.

BGB began as Bitget's exchange token, absorbed wallet token BWB, and moved its roadmap to Morph Foundation. Morph still lists ETH as its native network currency, while its current AltFee documentation supports paying gas with BGB. This alternative payment route does not establish a complete native-currency migration or holder governance.

KCS is KuCoin's policy-driven exchange token and KCC's native gas asset. Its history includes a 2021 name and Ethereum-contract swap, changeable fee and staking programs, monthly revenue-based burns, administrator blacklist powers, and operator risk sharpened by KuCoin's 2025 U.S. guilty plea.

VeChainThor is a public smart-contract network whose 2018 VEN-to-VET migration created a fixed-supply staking asset beside the variable gas token VTHO. Hayabusa replaced its KYC Proof-of-Authority set with delegated staking in 2025, while proposal authorization, software execution and enterprise contracts remain separate from a holder's token rights.

Current SUN is the TRC-20 token at TSSMH…U3S, created when each SUNOLD became 1,000 SUN in 2021. SUN.io now spans AMMs and stablecoin pools; voting, fee sharing and boosts require locking SUN to obtain veSUN, while product burns and contract controls are separate.

CFX is the uncapped native coin shared by Conflux Core Space and its EVM-compatible eSpace. PoW Tree-Graph orders blocks, PoS adds finality, and CFX pays fees, storage, staking and governance—but grants no equity, partner claim or protected price.

MX is MEXC's Ethereum exchange token at 0x11eef04c884e24d9b7b4760e7476d06ddf797f36. Its contract now has 409,024,834 MX outstanding; MEXC reports 91,837,334 circulating, 317,187,500 locked and 590,975,166 burned, while current benefits are account-based programs rather than equity or a claim on exchange reserves.

NEO is the indivisible governance asset of Neo N3, not GAS and not a Neo X gas token. Its story runs from Antshares in 2014 through a renamed 2017 network and a mandatory 2021 chain migration to a two-chain system whose votes, rewards, bridge and upgrade powers do not amount to equity in the organizations that build it.

Qtum launched on 13 September 2017 with a difficult promise: keep Bitcoin’s UTXO ledger while running Ethereum-style contracts. Its Account Abstraction Layer made that combination work, but also committed the chain to maintaining two upstream traditions. Offline staking, FastLane and later Shanghai, Dencun and Pectra releases show how that original choice kept shaping QTUM.

Zilliqa began as a 2015 sharding experiment, launched its chain and Scilla separately in 2019, then removed the old shards, migrated to proof of stake, and was forced by a 2026 signing failure to retire its last legacy transaction path.

Nervos CKB turned blockchain state into a scarce capacity measured in CKBytes. Its Cell model, NC-MAX proof of work and Nervos DAO connect storage, miner pay and dilution—but a DAO deposit is compensation for secondary issuance, not staking or a protocol ballot.