[BSC] - Fermi Hard Fork

Incident Report for Blockdaemon

Investigating

BSC's Fermi Hard Fork will take place on 1/14/2026 @ 02:00 UTC, and brings a number of improvements to the protocol. You can find the list of changes here:
https://www.bnbchain.org/en/blog/fermi-hard-fork-accelerates-bsc-to-0-45-second-block-times

The Fermi hard fork includes the following BEPs:

BEP-590: Extended Voting Rules for Fast Finality Stability
BEP-619: Short Block Interval Phase Three (0.45 seconds)
BEP-592: Non-Consensus Based Block-Level Access List
BEP-593: Incremental Snapshot
BEP-610: Implement EVM Super Instruction

We do not expect any downtime as a result of the hard fork. If you have any questions, please contact your CSM (Customer Success Manager).

Posted Jan 12, 2026 - 07:18 UTC

This incident affects: Protocols (Dedicated Nodes) (BNB).