The BSC Pasteur hard fork will go live on August 25, with TPS increased to a maximum of 2324.

TechFlow News, August 14, according to the official BNB Chain announcement, the BNB Smart Chain (BSC) Pasteur hard fork will be officially activated at 02:30 UTC on August 25, 2026. This upgrade includes three core proposals: BEP-682 fixes cross-chain bridge verification vulnerabilities to prevent duplicate validators from bypassing the signature threshold; BEP-695 improves the validator key rotation mechanism to ensure old key permissions are completely invalidated; BEP-675 optimizes the block building process, reducing validator critical path time from 125ms to 15ms, increasing testnet TPS from 1237 to 2324, and raising average block Gas usage from 46.35M to 84.15M.