BNB Chain activates Pasteur hard fork to strengthen bridge security
BNB Smart Chain (BSC) activated its Pasteur hard fork on Tuesday, closing bridge verification and validator authorization gaps while introducing a new route intended to fit more transactions into each block. In a Tuesday post, BNB Chain confirmed that Pasteur was live on the BSC mainnet.
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Key Facts
- Fact 1: The team said the upgrade strengthens the network’s bridge, staking and governance security while giving blocks more capacity without changing its 450-millisecond block time.
- Fact 2: BEP-682 rejects duplicate validator entries during cross-chain light-block verification, while BEP-695 tightens controls involving validator key rotation, slashing and governance voting.
- Fact 3: Furthermore, BEP-675 changes how specialist builders submit blocks to validators.
- Fact 4: BNB Chain said the repeated work took time away from builders operating within the network’s 450-millisecond block window, sometimes leaving blocks underfilled.
BNB Smart Chain (BSC) activated its Pasteur hard fork on Tuesday, closing bridge verification and validator authorization gaps while introducing a new route intended to fit more transactions into each block. In a Tuesday post, BNB Chain confirmed that Pasteur was live on the BSC mainnet.
The team said the upgrade strengthens the network’s bridge, staking and governance security while giving blocks more capacity without changing its 450-millisecond block time. The upgrade combines three BNB Evolution Proposals. BEP-682 rejects duplicate validator entries during cross-chain light-block verification, while BEP-695 tightens controls involving validator key rotation, slashing and governance voting.
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Original source: Cointelegraph
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