BNBChain Bi-Weekly Development Updates
Date: August 1, 2024
Subject: BNB Chain Bi-Weekly Development Updates
Introduction
Welcome to our bi-weekly update from BNB Chain! We’re thrilled to share the latest developments and exciting features the community is working on behind the scenes to enhance our BNB Chain network.
Governance Upgrade
As BC fusion streamlined the governance of Beacon Chain and BNB Smart Chain, BNB Chain governance process is also revisited and optimized. For details, please refer to new BNB Chain Governance landing page.
Latest Release and Upgrade
Completed Hardfork
Second Sunset hardfork of Beacon chain happened on July 14th, 2024, which triggered the auto-refund for BNB Beacon Chain delegations. It is a milestone for the BC Fusion initiative. If you have not migrated your delegations from BNB Beacon Chan to the BNB Smart Chain, please follow the steps here to migrate ASAP.
Final Sunset Hardfork on Testnet happened on August 1st, and we are working on the mainnet hardfork. After Sunset Fork, the validators in the Beacon Chain community will gradually shut down, and the entire chain will no longer accept new transactions or propose new blocks. You can refer to the FAQ of BC Fusion for more information.
Upcoming Hardforks
opBNB will have the gasless solution hardfork on testnet on August 15, which enables the opBNB testnet to accept the gasless transactions through EOA wallet, and anyone who wants to sponsor their users can set up the paymaster.
BNB Greenfield will have the Mongolian hardfork on August 8th to support the cross chain message of policy creation.
All hardfork details you can find in our doc site announcement section.
BEP Under Discussion:
BNB Smart Chain
The community also proposed two new BEPs, which keeps improving the BSC block production and validation.
- BEP-402 - Complete missing fields in Block Header to generate signature
- BEP-404 - Clear Miner History when Switching Validators Set
- BEP-410 - Add Agent for Validator
As these two BEPs does not introduce token economy or consensus mechanisms changes, after discussed with proposers of these two BEP, they will be included in the upcoming BSC hardforks of Bohr
For the BEP 341 and BEP396, the community has received some feedback, and also the discussion has been summarized as FAQs. And we had community call discussed these two BEPs with validators and BNB holders.
- BEP 341 - Validators can produce consecutive blocks
A temperature check voting has been conducted on Snapshot, and we got a positive result by BNB Holder voting. And we will start the on-chain governance process very soon.
- BEP-396 - Accelerate Block Execution by TxDAG
BEP396 has some concern from the community, but this BEP just enables the governance capability, and the number of consecutive blocks will be kept to 1 unless we reach a consensus to adjust it.
Current Development Progress:
BNB Smart Chain
In the past weeks, there have been some changes on the BNB Chain website.
- New Developer Portal Preview [Link]
It is a developer one-stop page where developers can find the most relevant information, including chain data analytics, infrastructure, and also BNB Chain ecosystem dApps.
- BNB Chain liquid staking landing page [Link].
BNB holders can find the liquidity staking information on this page.
opBNB
opBNB keeps improving the user experience by exploring the possibilities of fault proof, which aims to optimize opBNB securely. A ZK based fault proof POC has been developed and tested, and also shared to Optimism OP Stack for community discussions.
- Optimism Forum thread: Zk fault proof for OP Stack - Technical Proposals 📃 - Optimism Collective
- BNB Chain Forum thread: Zk fault proof for opBNB
BNB Greenfield
With the following new services, Greenfieldis working on setting a new standard for blockchain data reliability and security.
- Block Archiver: It is a specialized service designed to facilitate the efficient storage and retrieval of historical block data on the Ethereum compatible chains(BSC for now). This solution caters to various users who require comprehensive and reliable blockchain records for their operations.
- Greenfield Peer: With the launch of the block-archiver, BSC historical block data is now accessible on Greenfield. For those operating BSC nodes in fullsync mode, connecting to the Greenfield peer is a beneficial choice. The Greenfield peer fetches block data from Greenfield and supplies it to BSC nodes via the P2P network.
BNB Chain Community