How to Connect Metamask Wallet to Binance Smart Chain Mainnet and Testnet

Metamask Wallet allows us to connect to different blockchains such as Ethereum, Polygon, Cronos or Binance Smart Chain to interact with web 3 and its technologies

You can download Metamask from here

Binance Smart Chain is a technology designed to improve transaction speed and reduce the high fees of Ethereum, apart from having a whole ecosystem to support new projects compatible with Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)

You can open a Binance account here

Now to connect our Metamask wallet we need the following information:

Binance Smart Chain Mainnet

Network name: Smart Chain
New RPC URL: https://bsc-dataseed.binance.org/
ChainID: 56
Symbol: BNB
Block Explorer URL: https://bscscan.com

Open Metamask and..

Binance Smart Chain Testnet

Network Name: Smart Chain — Testnet
New RPC URL: https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.binance.org:8545/
ChainID: 97
Symbol: BNB
Block Explorer URL: https://testnet.bscscan.com

Receive BNB faucet: https://testnet.binance.org/faucet-smart