{"id":22276,"date":"2025-03-20T18:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bnb-chain-team-deploys-pascal-update-on-mainnet\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T18:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:02:20","slug":"bnb-chain-team-deploys-pascal-update-on-mainnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bnb-chain-team-deploys-pascal-update-on-mainnet\/","title":{"rendered":"BNB Chain Team Deploys Pascal Update on Mainnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developers of BNB Chain have activated the Pascal hard fork on the main network. The upgrade included the implementation of <span data-descr=\"Ethereum Improvement Proposal \u2014 a proposal to improve Ethereum\" class=\"old_tooltip\">EIP<\/span>-7702 from the upcoming Pectra update of the Ethereum blockchain.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pascal hardfork is now complete and we&#8217;re already planning future hardforks:<\/p>\n<p>? Lorentz (April 2025): Faster block times (1.5s)<br \/>? Maxwell (June 2025): Even faster (0.75s)<\/p>\n<p>Want to shape the next upgrade? Join the discussion:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4uV2v508oN\">https:\/\/t.co\/4uV2v508oN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SFi9WFUGHV\">pic.twitter.com\/SFi9WFUGHV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BNB Chain Developers (@BNBChainDevs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BNBChainDevs\/status\/1902646373121704397?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The hard fork of the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-team-launches-hoodi-testnet\">expected<\/a> no earlier than the end of April. <\/p>\n<p>The main feature of EIP-7702 is the implementation of a capability for wallets to temporarily function as smart contracts. This allows for gasless transactions through payments and batch approval of operations with a single click, simplifying user interaction with the interface.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the Pascal update focuses on enhancing the EVM compatibility of BNB Chain and expanding opportunities for application developers.<\/p>\n<p>The team also plans to conduct hard forks in April (Lorentz) and June (Maxwell). These updates aim to gradually reduce the inter-block interval to 1.5 and 0.75 seconds, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2024, the DeFi ecosystem of BNB Chain <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bnb-chains-defi-ecosystem-expands-by-58-in-2024\">grew by 58%<\/a>, with the volume of funds locked in smart contracts reaching $5.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the project <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bnb-recovers-february-losses-following-2025-roadmap-release\">published<\/a> a technical roadmap for 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developers of BNB Chain have activated the Pascal hard fork on the main network. The upgrade included the implementation of EIP-7702 from the upcoming Pectra update of the Ethereum blockchain. Pascal hardfork is now complete and we&#8217;re already planning future hardforks: ? Lorentz (April 2025): Faster block times (1.5s)? Maxwell (June 2025): Even faster (0.75s) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1307,433,1134],"class_list":["post-22276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bnb-chain","tag-evm","tag-technical-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"42","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}