BNB Chain becomes an Ethereum competition after a 50% increase in efficiency thanks to Maxwell upgrade
- BNB Chain halves the block time with the Maxwell upgrade. In this way, the project with Ethereum and Solana can draw the same way in terms of process pace and scalability.
- Maxwell enables high-frequency daps and faster synchronization and drives BNB chain towards real-time performance without the decentralization suffering.
BNB Chain has activated the Maxwell Hardfork in its test network, an important upgrade that aims to reduce the performance gap to top blockchains such as Ethereum and Solana. The Hard Fork introduces important changes to the consensus and network infrastructure of BNB Chain and halves the block time from 1.5 to 0.75 seconds. The changes are expected to reduce the transaction duration to less than two seconds and enable faster communication between the validators and improved synchronization. The start of the Mainnet is planned for June 30th.
In addition, the Maxwell upgrade introduces structural changes that are intended to receive the network’s resilience and at the same time increase the speed. A remarkable change is the expansion of the epoch length from 500 to 1,000 blocks. The validators now produce 16 blocks per round to ensure that the fluctuation of the applicants remains compensated for despite the faster block intervals.
In order to solve problems that result from too much network traffic and memory requirement, the gas limit per block was increased from 70 million to 35 million. The new setting is in line with the aim of running the network smoothly and managing the increasing transaction volume.
The spreading speed in the network layer has been improved, so that blocks can reach the validers in a time frame of 400 milliseconds. An efficient catch -up hunting nodes is made possible by adequate area synchronization, so that the risks in block processing are lower.
According to the developers of the BNB-Chain, all the changes should create a balance between speed and reliability-CNF reported-so that the network can be scaled without affecting the decentralization or the performance of the validers.
Maxwell HardFork Successfully Activated on BNB Chain Testnet
The Maxwell upgrade is now live on BNB Chain testnet, activated at block 5,255,2978.
Key Technical Specifications:
Block time: 0.75 seconds
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Developer tools and potential for application development
Developers who develop latent -sensitive applications are expected to benefit from faster block times and a final validity of less than two seconds. With the Maxwell upgrade, application cases such as real-time games, forecast markets and decentralized financial platforms can run natively on BNB chain without additional layer 2 solutions or execution environments outside the chain.
This gives developers more flexibility to develop ultra-high-frequency applications on the Ethereum Layer 1 chain, which are nevertheless compatible with the EVM. The new upgrade enables quick feedback in applications that use blockchain or include real-time gameplay.
For normal people, better performance leads to faster transaction confirmations if they use tokens or shape NFTs. The improved responsiveness eliminates hurdles in decentralized applications and brings BNB Chain closer to the desired communication speed for web2 users.
Market metrics and comparative performance
Current data from ChainSpect show a 37%increase in the transaction throughput per second after the Testnet introduction. BNB Chain now processes about 12 times more transactions than Ethereum. Despite this activity increase are the metrics for Block time and finality Still 87.5 and 99.21 percent behind those of Ethereum.
BNB-Chain has the highest sales among the decentralized stock exchanges. Defillama shows that the daily Dex activity on Ethereum is almost six times higher than that of Solana and achieved $ 13 billion in the last 24 hours.
The Maxwell Hard Fork, named after physicist of the same name, is the second major update for BNB Chain. It follows the Lorentz Hard Fork, with which the gas fees lowered and the number of transactions that can be processed were increased.
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