Odaily Planet Daily News BNB Chain has successfully completed the Pascal hard fork. This upgrade introduced the EIP-7702 smart contract wallet, which aims to improve EVM compatibility and developer support, as well as optimizations involving fuel fee abstraction, smart payment interface and batch transactions. The official roadmap for future improvements was announced: the Lorentz upgrade scheduled for April 2025 aims to reduce the block time to 1.5 seconds, improve transaction speed and network efficiency. After that, the Maxwell upgrade in June 2025 is planned to further speed up the block time to 0.75 seconds.