BNB moves over BNB Smart Chain, known by its token standard BEP20, and the chain's main selling point for a casino player is cost: fees are typically a fraction of a cent and confirmations land in a few seconds, well below what Ethereum charges for a comparable transfer.
Because BEP20 is also used to move wrapped versions of other assets — wrapped ETH, various stablecoins — a casino that supports BNB deposits is very often the same casino offering a BEP20 option for those other coins too. That is convenient, but it also means the network-mismatch risk that applies to any multi-chain token applies here as well: a BEP20 address is not interchangeable with an ERC20 or native-chain address for the same asset, and sending to the wrong one does not convert, it fails or is lost.
BNB Smart Chain is generally reliable and rarely congested compared with Ethereum mainnet, which is part of why it has become a common secondary network for casinos wanting to offer a cheap option alongside a coin's native chain. It is not the only such network — Polygon and Tron serve a similar role for some tokens on this list — so where multiple cheap options exist, the practical choice usually comes down to which one your sending wallet or exchange also supports.
BNB itself started life as Binance's exchange token, originally used to discount trading fees on the Binance platform before the chain that now carries its name existed. That history matters for one practical reason: BNB's value and liquidity remain closely tied to Binance specifically, the exchange most people use to acquire it, and Binance's own regulatory record is not spotless — the exchange and its former CEO reached a multi-billion-dollar settlement with US authorities in 2023 over anti-money-laundering and sanctions failures. None of that is a statement about the BNB Smart Chain network's technical reliability, which is unrelated and has an independent track record of its own, but it's worth knowing where the token's roots sit if you're holding it rather than just passing it through a casino deposit.