BNB Smart Chain is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 secured by Proof of Staked Authority, with a set of 45 validators. The Fermi hard fork on January 14, 2026 cut block time from 0.75 to 0.45 seconds, and fast finality now arrives in about 650 ms. Average throughput sits around 250 TPS, while BNB Chain’s June 2026 benchmark reached roughly 5,200 TPS, and the H2 2026 roadmap targets another twofold gain. Most blocks are assembled by builders under proposer-builder separation, and fees are paid in BNB.
At 0.45-second blocks, every 10 ms of RPC latency is more than 2% of the block interval. GetBlock runs BSC full and archive nodes in Frankfurt, New York and Singapore, serving JSON-RPC, WebSocket and GraphQL. Shared endpoints include MEV protection at no extra cost. Dedicated Nodes run Geth, Reth or Erigon and can add bloXroute’s BDN for faster transaction propagation. In October 2026, OpenChainBench ranked GetBlock first among paid BSC providers on cold-start latency, the delay a wallet or bot sees on a fresh connection.