🚨 The BNB Chain Maxwell upgrade is officially live, ushering in a new era of 0.75-second blocks and setting new chain speed rules.

According to the @BNBCHAIN announcement, the mainnet upgrade is set for today. BNB Chain is accelerating again, officially announcing the launch of the Maxwell hard fork upgrade. The BSC block time will be reduced from 1.5 seconds to 0.75 seconds, marking the chain's entry into the sub-second block production era.

The implementation of the Maxwell upgrade relies on three core proposals: BEP-524, BEP-563, and BEP-564.

1⃣ BEP-524 reduces the block interval to 0.75 seconds, building on the performance foundation established after the Lorentz hard fork to provide more responsive block confirmation speeds for DeFi applications.

2⃣ BEP-563 focuses on strengthening the consensus protocol and communication quality between validators, ensuring stable network synchronization and voting processes even with shorter block times.

3⃣ BEP-564 significantly improves block synchronization speed by introducing two new message types, solving the data latency problem between nodes during high-frequency operation.

With the launch of Maxwell, BSC officially enters the "sub-second" chain era. For the overall user experience, any on-chain interaction, from Swap to Mint, will happen almost instantly, and the trading experience will be smoother than ever. As for validators and node operators, although the computational load will increase slightly, overall stability will remain at a high level with the support of enhanced communication protocols and synchronization mechanisms.

This upgrade is a high-quality evolution for MEV. The compression of block time further shortens the time for submitting bids and executing contracts, compressing it from the original 1.5 seconds to less than 1 second, directly forcing many high-frequency arbitrage strategies to be redesigned or eliminated.