BNB Chain released the mainnet v1.2.9 version, which introduced the Plato and Hertz hard forks, which have been fully tested on the testnet and are ready to be deployed on the mainnet. Plato is expected to be deployed on August 10, and Hertz is expected to be deployed on August 30. BNB Chain stated that all validator nodes and full node operators of the mainnet must switch their software version to v1.2.9 before August 10, 2023.