Odaily News BNB Chain will conduct a mainnet Pascal hard fork on March 20, 2025, improve EVM compatibility, and become one of the first public chains to adopt EIP-7702. This upgrade will introduce features such as Gas abstraction, EOA wallet smart contract, and batch transactions, providing users with a smoother experience and bringing greater flexibility to developers.
Through the EIP-7702 proposal, BNB Chain will allow externally owned accounts (EOA) to temporarily have smart contract functions during transactions while maintaining account security. This upgrade will significantly lower the threshold for users to enter Web3. For example, the gas fee abstraction allows users to complete on-chain interactions without holding native tokens for gas fees in their accounts; at the same time, dApps are allowed to sponsor gas fees for users, batch transactions and other functions to enhance the user on-chain experience.
Previously, the Pascal hard fork has been completed on the testnet. For the upcoming mainnet upgrade, node operators and validators need to update to v1.5.7 (BSC) or v0.5.2/v0.5.6 (opBNB) before March 20; exchanges and infrastructure providers need to ensure compatibility before the hard fork, and developers need to test and update dApps to support new transaction types.
According to BNB Chain's 2025 technical roadmap, the community plans to conduct a Lorentz hard fork in April and implement a Maxwell hard fork upgrade in June to increase the block generation speed to 0.75 seconds. Currently, the proposal is open for community comments.