BNB Chain says BEP-590 helped push finality below one second
BNB Chain says its latest consensus-related upgrades have brought the network to sub-second finality, with the project pointing to BEP-590 and BEP-648 as key steps in the process. In an official blog post, the network said production finality has reached about 0.65 seconds after a sequence of upgrades.
The company described BEP-590 as an update that extended voting to recent ancestor blocks, a change it said was meant to absorb network jitter and improve finality speed. It said that approach brought average finality down to roughly 0.9 seconds.
BNB Chain 🤝 Sub-second finality
Apps, bridges, exchanges, and users now get settlement certainty in ~0.65 seconds, enabling faster deposits, cross-chain transfers, and near-instant confirmations.
Nearly 70x faster with zero EVM migration.
Here’s how BSC got there 🧵👇 pic.twitter.com/9D7plnCeQg
— BNB Chain (@BNBCHAIN) July 30, 2026
BNB Chain then pointed to BEP-648, which it said added an in-memory vote pool that aggregates votes in real time. According to the network, finality is confirmed at about 0.65 seconds once a two-thirds quorum is reached.
A sequence of upgrades, not a single switch
The blog framed the improvement as the result of a series of BEP upgrades rather than one isolated change. BNB Chain said the move from a 45-second finality model to around 0.65 seconds came through sequential updates, with BEP-590 and BEP-648 among the most recent steps highlighted publicly.
The sub-second result was presented as the outcome of layered consensus changes, not a standalone upgrade with an immediate effect on its own.
BNB Chain’s public thread also linked to the blog for further detail, but the core claim remains the same: the network says it has crossed into sub-second finality on production systems.
