Crypto: BNB Smart Chain aims for ultra-speed with its Fermi hard fork

Binance had promised that 2026 would mark a turning point for its ecosystem, and the crypto giant seems determined to keep its word. This year, the BNB Smart Chain is deploying Fermi, a major update designed to transform how transactions are executed on the blockchain. Binance is not about to disappoint its community: the mantra is clear — speed, stability, efficiency. The numbers will come later, but the ambition is already evident.

Fermi, Binance’s Secret Weapon to Accelerate the Blockchain

The Fermi hard fork is not just a technical adjustment: it is a true overhaul of the blockchain’s heartbeat. By reducing block time from 0.75 to 0.45 seconds, the BSC now approaches a finality of about one second. In other words, each transaction is confirmed almost instantly, a feat in the crypto world.

Nina Rong, growth director at BNB Chain, aptly described the goal: to make the network faster without ever sacrificing reliability.

The challenge goes beyond mere speed. Binance wants to ensure that its network remains stable even during congestion periods. Validators are now better synchronized, and fast-finality rules have been strengthened to prevent confirmation delays. 

This responsiveness gain is especially aimed at sectors where every millisecond counts: real-time trading, instant DeFi, or on-chain interactive games. 

With Fermi, Binance Smart Chain moves closer to Solana’s rank while keeping EVM compatibility — a rare balance between performance and accessibility.

When Binance Industrializes Crypto to Keep Pace

In 2025, BNB Chain had already proven its robustness: nearly 3.9 billion transactions, zero downtime, and a 95% reduction in fees thanks to better contract execution. The Fermi hard fork continues this path.

Binance’s engineers no longer aim to break records, but to build a machine capable of absorbing real-world load. A quote from BNB Chain’s official blog sums up this philosophy:

Fermi aims to make BSC faster while remaining predictable and reliable as network usage grows. The upgrade reduces block times, strengthens finality at higher throughput, and ensures the chain continues operating consistently under real-world production conditions. 

Behind this optimization lies a digital factory logic: Geth for stability, Reth for performance. This dual architecture, mentioned in the 2026 tech roadmap, transforms the network into an industrial-scale platform able to handle massive usage loads.

This approach is reminiscent of a digital factory: a fluid structure capable of maintaining pace without overheating. Innovations like EVM Super Instructions (BEP-610) reduce calculation complexity, increasing execution speed by 10%.

For the crypto community, Fermi symbolizes a promise kept: that of a network where performance and reliability no longer exclude each other.

2026, the Year Crypto Goes Sub-Second

Binance Smart Chain’s 2026 roadmap does not stop at Fermi. The network is preparing a spectacular scaling: 20,000 transactions per second, a new Scalable DB database, and parallel processing to absorb growing DApps growth.

But that’s not all. BSC is looking to the future by integrating AI Agents, configurable privacy systems, and a hybrid architecture combining off-chain computing and on-chain proofs.

These advances place Binance at the forefront of a new generation of blockchain infrastructures, built for massive use cases: payments, decentralized finance, tokenization of real-world assets (RWA).

The bet is simple: to make BSC the Web3 trading chain, a playground where speed and stability come together.

Key Figures to Remember

• Block: 0.45 s, finality: ~1 s;
• 31 million daily transactions at 2025 peak;
• TVL: +40.5% for the year;
• Fees cut by 20;
• BNB price: 921 dollars.

At the start of the year, as the Fermi upgrade settles in, Binance Smart Chain already establishes itself as the most active blockchain in the ecosystem. A strong sign: Binance’s strategy pays off. And in a fast-moving crypto industry, it proves it is still possible to combine speed, rigor, and ambition without ever losing control.