BNB Chain Successfully Activates Fermi Hard Fork for Sub-Second Blocks

• BNB Chain has successfully activated its Fermi hard fork on the BNB Smart Chain (BSC) mainnet, which reduces block times from 0.75 seconds to about 0.45 seconds.
• Last year, BSC processed 4.15 billion transactions.
• Main technical improvements include shorter block production time, more reliable confirmations, and better performance for real-time apps.

BNB Chain has successfully activated its Fermi hard fork on the BNB Smart Chain (BSC) mainnet, a big upgrade that reduces block times from 0.75 seconds to about 0.45 seconds and brings some of the network’s fastest speeds yet.

Nina Rong, Executive Director of Growth at BNB Chain, shared some stats on X, saying that last year BSC processed 4.15 billion transactions. If the same number of transactions happens this year, with the reduced block times, Fermi would save over 1.24 billion seconds in total block time, roughl…

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