BNB Chain promotes Red Alarm and urges BSC-Reth hotfix

Red Alarm lists decentralized applications and smart contracts flagged for potentially risky conditions. Through DappBay, users can browse entries by category, blockchain, risk driver and listing date, or scan a contract or wallet address before interacting with it. Warnings include inaccessible project websites, suspected Ponzi-style arrangements and contract features that could expose users to losses.

BNB Chain introduced the service in July 2022. An August update said it had scanned more than 3,300 contracts in its first weeks, with more than 50 projects flagged. DappBay says its assessments draw on automated scans, models and available contract information; the ratings are not endorsements or a guarantee that unlisted applications are safe. “Keeping users safe takes ongoing work across crypto,” BNB Chain said in its November 7 reminder.

The separate November 6 notice concerns BSC-Reth execution-client software. A GitHub release recommends that mainnet and testnet operators install v0.1.4-hotfix as soon as possible and restart their nodes. The guidance applies to validators, block builders involved in maximal extractable value activities, full-node operators and sentry operators—not ordinary wallet users.

The release says the fix corrects an error that could produce an incorrect state root under specific conditions. State roots represent account balances, contract storage and other blockchain state, which nodes use to check that they agree on valid data. The patch incorporates a correction from the upstream Reth project for a legacy calculation path. BNB Chain said installation requires neither a database migration nor a separate hard fork.

BNB Chain described BSC-Reth’s exposure as limited and said opBNB does not use op-reth. The hotfix follows a November 3 announcement scheduling the Jenner hard fork for December 8, 2026, at 02:30 UTC. That upgrade is separate and includes a Payment Lane proposal reserving a default 5% of each block’s gas capacity for eligible payments.