Base Suffers Second Mainnet Stall in Two Days
Base, the Coinbase-incubated blockchain, faced block production issues for the second time in just two days.
Friday’s Brief Outage
On Friday, Base experienced another chain halt. The issue was first detected at 15:33 UTC. Block production resumed quickly by 16:11 UTC.
The Base team confirmed that node operators need to restart their Base Mainnet nodes to resume syncing. The outage was short and no user funds were reported at risk.
Thursday’s Longer Disruption
A similar problem occurred on Thursday, stalling the network for nearly two hours. The halt happened after an invalid block disrupted the sequencer following block 47806542.
Although user funds remained safe, the issue temporarily interrupted withdrawals. Block production returned to normal after the restart of nodes.
Beryl Hardfork Context
Thursday’s incident took place just before the planned Beryl upgrade. The upgrade went live successfully at 20:00 UTC and introduced important changes, including the new B20 token standard and finality improvements.
This marks the second chain halt in two days for Base, raising questions about network stability ahead of further growth.
The Block has reached out to Base’s team for additional comments.
