Minor incident

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

Affected: BNB Smart Chain

Current status of Alchemy: Operational — live Alchemy status

Timeline

1. Oct 22, 2026, 09:57 UTC
   investigating
   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.
2. Oct 22, 2026, 16:09 UTC
   monitoring
   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.
3. Oct 22, 2026, 16:24 UTC
   resolved
   This incident has been resolved. Latency and error rates for BNB Smart Chain have remained normal. We will continue to monitor.

Updates as published by Alchemy (original).