How to Add BNB Network in MetaMask?

Binance Smart Chain holds a few key advantages over the Ethereum main net, but it also comes with its own set of drawbacks. But more importantly, it is compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine, which means that you can use it in almost all applications built for the Ethereum Mainnet. Apps such as MetaMask. MetaMask is an amazing GUI tool that lets you interact with the blockchain network.

Previously, you needed to manually enter the network details in MetaMask, but the recent update of MetaMask gives you an option to interactively add a few networks(including BSC) in the application or the browser extension. Let’s find out the step-by-step process to add a BSC network in MetaMask.

Install MetaMask: As an obvious first step, ensure that you have the MetaMask desktop extension installed and set up in your browser. You can download and install it from the extension store for your browser and set it up. If you are unfamiliar with the process, just follow along with this simple guide on our website.

Once you have installed the MetaMask on your browser, locate it in the top-right corner, where you may see a fox logo or the jigsaw puzzle icon. Find MetaMask in there and click to open it. After opening the extension, find a circular profile-type icon in the top-right corner of the extension window and click on it.

On the profile menu, find the settings option and click on that to reveal the MetaMask settings. You’ll find a “Network” tab here. Select that to reveal the network settings.

In the “Networks” setting, you’ll find Ethereum Mainnet and a few test networks. Test networks are really interesting for development purposes. We have a separate blog on the uses of these networks. You can read more about those here(hyperlink). But for now, we will move the “Add Network” option to the bottom, and it will open a new window in your browser.

You should be inside the “Networks” tab of the new window. But in case you’re not, just navigate to the “Networks” section and select the “Add Network” option.

MetaMask supports a few networks by default. You can add any one of these to your MetaMask wallet from this screen. It also has the BNB smart chain option here. Which is what we want to add to our MetaMask wallet. Click on the add text next to it.

The popup on the next screen will ask you for your consent on adding this network to your MetaMask wallet. Approve this, and another popup will ask you if you want to switch it to your main network. Click on the BNB smart chain option so that the default MetaMask network will change from Ethereum to BNB smart chain. You can now start interacting with the network from the MetaMask extension.

Approve BNB network addition and switch to the network