Base Network Suffers Temporary Outage
On Thursday, Coinbase's Ethereum layer-2 network, Base, faced a significant disruption that halted block production for over two hours. The outage occurred just before a scheduled upgrade, creating concerns among users and developers alike.
The issue was identified around 12:20 p.m. ET, prompting a notification via X that reassured users about the security of their funds while troubleshooting was underway. By 1:00 p.m. ET, operations began to resume as the problem was identified, with applications and infrastructure gradually coming back online as nodes were restarted.
"Blocks are being produced, and we’re observing applications and infrastructure coming back online as their Base nodes are restarted and synchronized. Thank you for your patience while we resolved this," said the Base Build team.
This incident marks the first production issue on the network within the last three months, though a prior incident in May had led to withdrawal delays of around 30 hours. Currently, Base is also working on its Beryl hardfork upgrade, which aims to enhance the handling of stablecoins and tokenized assets while reducing future withdrawal issues.
