[BNB Chain Activates Pasteur Hard Fork to Enhance BSC Cross-Chain Bridge Security and Block Transaction Capacity] Odaily Planet Daily reports that the blockchain network BNB Chain has activated the Pasteur hard fork on the BNB Smart Chain (BSC) mainnet. The upgrade involves enhancements to cross-chain bridge verification, validator authorization, staking, and governance security, while increasing block capacity without altering the 450-millisecond block time. This upgrade includes BEP-682, BEP-695, and BEP-675, which address duplicate validator entries, validator key rotation and penalty governance, and block submission processes, respectively. In the internal testing environment QANet, the new process increased throughput from 1,237 transactions per second to 2,324 transactions per second. However, this data comes from controlled testing and does not reflect mainnet measurements. (Cointelegraph)