Base suffers first major outage since launch

Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 community Base has endure its first major outage since its public launch on Aug. 9.

For about 45 minutes on Sept. 5, no new blocks had been produced on the Base chain. Its builders first recognized the “stalled” block manufacturing at 9:36 pm UTC, in response to the Base standing site.

“We recognized a delay in block manufacturing resulting from a part of our inner infrastructure requiring a refresh. We’ve applied a repair and are seeing widespread restoration,” Coinbase advised Cointelegraph in response to a question on the outage. 

Base claims the problem has since been recognized with the staff now deployed a repair which has seen a “widespread restoration” of block manufacturing. It is persevering with to watch the chain for additional points. 

Matt Willemsen, head of analysis at crypto schooling platform Collective Shift, highlighted the variations in utilizing Ethereum’s Layer 2 networks and claimed they don’t seem to be as “battle examined” as Ethereum’s mainnet.

Coinbase’s Base chain simply had its first major outage, lasting for 43 minutes. Blocks have simply began to be produced once more.

One other reminder that utilizing Ethereum L2s (e.g. Arbitrum One, OP Mainnet, zkSync Period, Base) is NOT the identical as utilizing Ethereum mainnet, which is extra… pic.twitter.com/JbUNQUGNwu

— Matt Willemsen (@matt_willemsen) September 5, 2023

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