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May 22, 2025 10:45
BNB Chain’s Maxwell Hardfork introduces a significant upgrade to reduce the BSC block time to 0.75 seconds to improve transaction speed and network stability.
The latest upgrade of the BNB chain, known as Maxwell Hardfork, is set to greatly improve the speed and efficiency of the BNB smart chain (BSC). According to the BNB chain blog, this development shows a pivotal step of reducing the block time from 1.5 seconds to 0.75 seconds, which improves transaction speed and network response.
Main proposals and improvements
The maxwell upgrade is supported by three important suggestions: BEP-524, BEP-563 and BEP-564. Such proposals aim to improve the core aspects of the speed and reliability of the blockchain. This upgrade allows you to see improvements such as reducing block intervals, improving effective tests, and synchronization of acceleration blocks between nodes, and helps all network participants, including users, developers, validated inspector and node operators.
Historical context and achievements
Prior to MAXWELL, LORENTZ HARDFORK has already reduced the BSC block time from 3 seconds to 1.5 seconds, and has set a step for faster distributed financing (Defi) operation and more smooth user experience. Since LORENTZ, the BNB chain has maintained an average transaction fee of $ 0.04 and has achieved the highest ranking in the daily distributed exchange (DEX) volume as reported in Dune Analytics.
Technical details of BEP proposals
BEP-524: 0.75 seconds block interval
This proposal accelerates the transaction confirmation by introducing a reduced block interval of 0.75 seconds, improving the DAP (DECTRalized Application) response and facilitating soft interactions in the Defi and Gamefi sectors.
BEP-563: Enhanced validation checker network
With faster blocks, BEP-563 focuses on improving peer-to-peer messaging between validation testors, ensuring faster block proposals and reducing the risk of missing or missing votes.
BEP-564: Smart Block Fach
The BEP-564 introduces a new message type in the BSC/2 protocol to greatly improve the synchronization speed of the entire network, allowing more efficient block faches.
Impact on users and developers
For users, transactions are almost instantaneous, improving the overall experience of swap, mint and other DApp interactions. Developers may need to adjust time -based logic to avoid potential problems, but they can benefit from delayed time to open new possibilities of DApp design.
Implications for valid and MEV
Evalues and node operators can expect a slight increase in calculation demand. MAXWELL HARDFORK supports faster blocks, such as introducing consensus parameters to increase the length and rotation length and ultimately improving the final and confirmation time.
For maximum extractable values (MEV) search machines, more detailed block windows must be adapted to the reduced time to submit bidding, so some existing strategies must be changed.
Implementation timeline
Testnet Hardfork is scheduled to be scheduled for May 26, 2025, and Mainnet Hardfork, planned on June 30, 2025, should upgrade software, test DApp compatibility, and evaluate system performance to prepare these changes.
Maxwell Hardfork shows a significant leap of the BNB chain and promises to improve the speed, efficiency and user experience of the blockchain.
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