BNB Chain Fermi hard fork scheduled for January activation

The mainnet rollout follows the Fermi testnet activation in November, further reducing block times on the layer-1 blockchain network.

The BNB Smart Chain’s Fermi hard fork has been scheduled for mainnet activation on Jan. 14, following about two months in the testnet phase.

Fermi will lower the block interval to 250 milliseconds from 750 milliseconds to support “time-sensitive” applications that require sub-second block times, according to the BNB community’s GitHub page.

The upgrade also introduces extended voting parameters to make up for the communication lag between nodes due to the shortened block times.

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