The Maxwell upgrade of BNB Smart Chain appears to be online, with the average block time falling to 0.8 seconds, down from 1.5 on Monday.
Maxwell Hard fork Cut it in half among other upgrades.
BNB Chain explain On Thursday, Maxwell upgrades will enable users to trade faster, creating faster response Distributed application (DAPPS) For developers, it reduces latency for decentralized financing, improves scalability, validator synchronization and overall network efficiency.
“This is not just another upgrade, it’s a technological leap in faster obstacles, better validator coordination and smoother network performance,” said the BNB chain team.
Maxwell Hard Fork time is scheduled to be available on UTC at 2:30 am on June 30 according to After launching the testnet on May 26, the GitHub proposal was submitted.
Hard forks hope to make messaging faster and more efficient
Maxwell Hard Fork has three main recommendations BEP-524, BEP-563 and BEP-564, designed to “improve the core aspects of the speed and reliability of the chain”, according to To the BNB chain.
Proposal BEP-563 aims to Improve peer-to-peer messaging Between validators, faster block proposal communication is allowed, a more stable network of validators is created, and the risk of missed votes or synchronization delays is reduced.
“This reduces the risk of missing votes or postponing proposals, which is key to reaching the goal of 0.75,” the BNB chain said.
BEP-564 should introduce two new message types into the protocol: getBlocksbyrangemsg, which can request multiple closest blocks in a single call, while rangeblocksmsg will return all requested blocks in one response.
The BNB chain team said, “This greatly improves the synchronization speed of the entire network.”
BEP-524 reduces block time, afterward Lorentz upgrades in Aprilreduce the time from three seconds to 1.5 seconds.
Developers and validators should be prepared
The BNB chain team said before the upgrade that developers need to test their DAPP under tighter block timing, refactor anything that relies on 1.5s intervals, and review time-based logic.
“If anything breaks, it could be your code, not your chain,” the team added.
Verifiers must ensure that their systems are benchmarked for 0.75 seconds and expect higher message throughput and faster consensus cycles.
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BNB price trading before upgrading
BNB chain’s local token BNB (BNB), nail In Maxwell’s upgraded leadership. Over the past seven days, BNB has surged 6.5%, drifting between the lows of $617 and the highs of $655.
Coingecko Data shows that the transaction price has risen 1.2% in the past 24 hours at $655.70 and is moving between $647 and $656. However, the token is still 17% away from the historical height of $788, and the high price reached on December 4.
