BNB Smart Chain: Elevated Latency and Intermittent Errors on Archive Requests

What to do

• Check whether you use Alchemy BNB Smart Chain in eu. Check your stack

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• Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 6h 27m it lasted.

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Updates from Alchemy 3

1. investigatingOct 22, 2026, 9:57 AM UTC

   We are seeing elevated latency and a small percentage of intermittent 5xx errors on BNB Smart Chain, mainly for archive and trace requests served from our EU region. The issue began around 01:40 UTC on October 22 and has been intermittent since. We are investigating and working to restore normal performance. We will post another update shortly.

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2. monitoringOct 22, 2026, 4:09 PM UTC

   Latency and error rates for BNB Smart Chain have returned to normal since approximately 15:00 UTC. We are continuing to monitor and will resolve this incident once we are confident performance is stable.

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3. resolvedOct 22, 2026, 4:24 PM UTC

   This incident has been resolved. Latency and error rates for BNB Smart Chain have remained normal. We will continue to monitor.

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Corrections

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