BNB Chain Releases BSC-Reth Hotfix, Tells Operators to Restart Nodes

BNB Chain’s BSC-Reth maintainers have issued v0.1.4-hotfix and urged operators to install it and restart their nodes to address a bug that could produce an incorrect state root under specific conditions.

The issue involved a legacy calculation path and could arise under specific trie conditions. The update applies to BNB Smart Chain mainnet and testnet, covering validators, MEV builders, full-node operators and sentry operators. Installing the fix requires a node restart; it does not require a database migration or hard fork.

The release was published Nov. 5 at 9:53 p.m. ET (Nov. 6 at 02:53 UTC) and recommends upgrading as soon as possible. BNB Chain described the effect on BSC-Reth as limited.

Separately, in a Nov. 7 post, BNB Chain directed users to DappBay’s existing Red Alarm tool, which lists potentially high-risk projects and scans smart contracts. The tool addresses application risk, separate from the node-software update. The list is not exhaustive, and a project’s absence from it does not mean it has been vetted or endorsed.