BNB Chain schedules security-focused Pasteur hard fork for Aug. 25

BNB Chain has scheduled its Pasteur hard fork for Aug. 25, introducing three changes intended to strengthen cross-chain transfers, tighten validator controls, and raise tested transaction capacity from 1,237 to 2,324 transactions per second. Summary Pasteur will activate on BNB Smart Chain at 2:30 a.m. UTC on Aug. 25. Node operators must install BSC software version v1.7.7 before the upgrade. Two changes address cross-chain security, validator permissions, and governance voting. Internal tests raised transaction capacity from 1,237 to 2,324 TPS. BNB Chain said in an Aug. 14 announcement that Pasteur will go live on BNB Smart Chain at 2:30 a.m. UTC on Aug. 25 after running on its test network since July 21. Node operators must install BSC software version v1.7.7 before the activation time. The network also instructed operators to remove an outdated setting called EnableBAL from their configuration files because the updated software will not start if it remains in place. Pasteur includes three proposals: BEP-682, BEP-695, and BEP-675. The first two address security and validator permissions, while the third changes how transactions are processed when new blocks are prepared. Pasteur ...