Coinbase layer-2 network Base suffers first major outage since launch

Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 web Base has suffered its archetypal large outage since its nationalist motorboat connected Aug. 9.

For astir 45 minutes connected Sept. 5, nary caller blocks were produced connected the Base chain. Its developers archetypal identified the “stalled” artifact accumulation astatine 9:36 p.m. UTC, according to the Base presumption site. Block accumulation has since resumed. 

Block accumulation connected the Base web stalled astatine 9:36pm Sept. 5. Source: BaseScan

“We identified a hold successful artifact accumulation owed to portion of our interior infrastructure requiring a refresh. We’ve implemented a hole and are seeing wide recovery,” Coinbase told Cointelegraph successful effect to a query connected the outage. 

Base said it is continuing to show the concatenation for further issues. 

Base developers said the origin of the outage has been identified and fixed. Source: Base

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