# BNB Smart Chain Testnet RPC and network details

Source: https://www.alchemy.com/rpc/bnb-testnet

The BNB Smart Chain testnet offers a low-cost environment for deploying and testing EVM-compatible smart contracts. It mirrors BSC mainnet and supports full Binance ecosystem tooling.

## Network details

- Network: Testnet
- Chain ID: 97
- Environment: Testnet
- Category: L1
- Native token: BNB
- Gas token: BNB
- Block time: 3s

## Endpoints

- Alchemy RPC: https://bnb-testnet.g.alchemy.com/v2/API_KEY
- Alchemy WebSocket: wss://bnb-testnet.g.alchemy.com/v2/API_KEY

Replace API_KEY with a key from https://dashboard.alchemy.com/signup.

## Alchemy product support

Supported on BNB Smart Chain Testnet: RPC API, Bundler API, Token API, Websockets, Gas Manager, Webhooks, Transfers API.

Not currently supported: Transaction receipts API, Block Timestamp API, User OP Simulation API, Prices API, Debug API, Trace API, NFT API, gRPC.

## Build on Alchemy

Alchemy provides BNB Smart Chain testnet RPC endpoints and a suite of data APIs, so you can seamlessly connect with BNB Smart Chain's test environment, thoroughly test your code, and then confidently ship to mainnet.

## Available networks

- BNB Smart Chain Mainnet: https://www.alchemy.com/rpc/bnb

## Links

- Alchemy docs: https://www.alchemy.com/docs/reference/bnb-smart-chain-api-quickstart
- Official docs: https://docs.bnbchain.org/bnb-smart-chain/
- Website: https://bnbchain.org/
- GitHub: https://github.com/bnb-chain
- Block explorer: https://testnet.bscscan.com/
- Bridge: https://www.bnbchain.org/en/bnb-chain-bridge