BNB Chain Activates Pasteur — Throughput Jump, No BNB Trade

BNB Smart Chain activated the Pasteur hard fork on Tuesday, closing bridge verification gaps, tightening validator controls, and introducing a new block-building route that roughly doubled throughput in testing. The upgrade combines three proposals: BEP-682 prevents validators from being counted twice in cross-chain bridge approvals, BEP-695 removes authority from rotated validator keys and blocks restricted addresses from governance votes, and BEP-675 allows block builders to submit already-exe