BNB Chain will carry out the Osaka/Mendel hard fork upgrade on April 28

Foresight News reports that BNB Chain has announced it will implement the Osaka/Mendel hard fork upgrade on April 28, 2026, at 10:30 (UTC+8). This upgrade includes 9 BEPs, adopts 6 Ethereum EIPs, and introduces 2 BNB Chain-specific optimizations. The focus of the upgrade is to achieve better execution, more stable performance, and faster final confirmation to address practical usage scenarios, including limiting the maximum block size, optimizing the gas fee mechanism, improving the memory voting pool for fast finality, and adding the CLZ opcode and eth_config JSON-RPC method.