BNB Smart Chain’s Jenner Upgrade Reserves 5% of Gas for Payments

BNB Chain has scheduled Jenner’s testnet rollout for Chapel on Oct. 28, adding a payment feature that reserves 5% of block gas by default for eligible payments. The hard fork is set for 10:30 p.m. ET Wednesday (02:30 UTC Oct. 29). The feature, called Payment Lane, gives qualifying payments a reserved share of a block’s gas capacity under the default setting. Preparation guidance covers validators, node operators, block builders and application developers. Jenner’s deployment to Chapel will not activate token creation under CAS20, BNB Chain’s proposed standard for stablecoins and tokenized assets.