Coinbase layer-2 community Base suffers first main outage since launch
Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 community Base has suffered its first main outage since its public launch on Aug. 9.
For roughly 45 minutes on Sept. 5, no new blocks have been produced on the Base chain. Its builders first recognized the “stalled” block manufacturing at 9:36 pm UTC, according to the Base standing website. Block manufacturing has since resumed.
“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 instructed Cointelegraph in response to a question on the outage.
Base stated it’s persevering with to observe the chain for additional points.
Matt Willemsen, head of analysis at crypto training platform Collective Shift, highlighted the variations in utilizing Ethereum’s layer 2 networks and claimed they aren’t as “battle examined” as Ethereum’s mainnet.
Coinbase’s Base chain simply had its first main 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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