- Base has said that it would keep an eye out for any additional problems in the chain.
- Nonetheless, there were still mainnet RPC bugs that needed fixing.
Since its public release on August 9, Ethereum layer-2 network Base by Coinbase has experienced its first significant outage. No new blocks were created on the Base chain for around 45 minutes on September 5. The “stalled” block production was initially noticed by its developers at 9:36 pm UTC.
However, production of blocks has started back up again. It found the problem within around 20 minutes and began implementing a repair. At 22:09 UTC, the team announced that the problem had been resolved.
Not Battle Tested
Base has said that it would keep an eye out for any additional problems in the chain. Collective Shift’s director of research Matt Willemsen raised some valid worries about utilizing Ethereum layer 2 networks and cautioned that they haven’t been as “battle tested” as Ethereum’s mainnet.
Nonetheless, there were still mainnet RPC bugs that needed fixing. Approximately one and a half hours after the outage began, at 23:06 UTC, the team said, “We have verified recovery of network health and RPC APIs.”
The crew finally reported the situation some hours later, placing blame on internal infrastructure. It went on to say that the problem had been found and fixed, so that no funds were in jeopardy.
Since the launch of Base Mainnet in mid-July, this is the first significant disruption to occur. Base, like Solana, was marketed as an alternative to Ethereum. Despite this slight setback, Base’s expansion since its introduction has been remarkable.
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