The Maxwell upgrade makes BNB Chain twice as fast to support the speed of crypto transactions, performance of the validator, and efficiency in dApp within the most important spheres of blockchain.

BNB Chain introduced its quickest upgrade to date, the Maxwell hardfork, whereby block times will be decreased by half, i.e., by one second (to 0.75) per block. The shift represents an important landmark in crypto infrastructure, which intends to increase throughput on transactions, validator coordination, and user experience.

Controlled by BEP-524, BEP-563, and BEP-564 upgrades, the upgrade improves the latency of decentralized applications and synchronizes the validators as well as clarifies the node communications. These reforms are set to give an advantage to the crypto environments such as DeFi, GameFi and NFT trading, where speed is crucial.

Maxwell is sequential to the Lorentz hard fork of April, and it introduces real-time responsiveness to blockchain. In the upgrade, the consensus rules are changed to increase epoch length to 2 and correct validator turns to achieve block finality with ease, as it takes a record below 2 seconds.

According to crypto analysts, the upgrade has the potential to transform MEV approaches, and arbitrageurs will have to (learn to) operate at the level of sub-second block cycles. As BNB is trading at $654 and the derivatives volume has increased by more than 57 percent within 24 hours, the market is becoming more confident in the future of the network.