BNB Smart Chain block times fall to 0.8 secs amid Maxwell upgrade

BNB Smart Chain’s Maxwell hard fork has three main proposals to boost scalability, validator sync and overall network efficiency.

BNB Smart Chain’s Maxwell upgrade has gone live, with average block times falling to 0.8 seconds, down from 1.5 on Monday.

The Maxwell hard fork aimed to cut block times in half, among other upgrades.  

BNB Chain said on Thursday that the Maxwell upgrade will make transactions faster for users, create more responsive decentralized applications (DApps) for developers, lower the latency for decentralized finance, boost scalability, validator sync and improve overall network efficiency.

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