Coinbase’s Base community went offline for over half an hour this morning. Block 33792346 was the final to supply transactions earlier than the outage, with subsequent blocks containing only a single transaction.
“Unsafe head delay” has been given as the rationale for the downtime, in line with the community’s standing web page, which reveals that “four components had a major outage” on Base mainnet right now.
Regardless of no official touch upon the outage, a put up noting “Base mainnet chain is currently stalled” was revealed eight minutes into the incident.
The standing web page’s preliminary incident report signifies that the outage was “identified and fixed” at 06:44 UTC. Blocks containing transactions resumed at peak 33793679 at 06.51 UTC, 44 minutes after the final legitimate block was produced.
Final yr, Coinbase Base battled to switch Solana because the non secular dwelling of crypto memecoining. Some have joked that right now’s outage took such efforts a step too far, in reference to the frequent downtime for which Solana was identified.
Solana’s final uptime incident was properly over a yr in the past, in February 2024.
Followers of SUI, one other high-throughput, low charge competitor chain, have used the outage to induce new customers emigrate “while you can.” However SUI’s report isn’t precisely clear, both.
Final week, Ethereum mainnet celebrated its 10-year anniversary with no downtime, regardless of pulling off a tough “merge” from proof of labor to proof of stake consensus mannequin in 2022.
