Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 community Base has undergo its first main outage since its public launch on Aug. 9.
For roughly 45 minutes on Sept. 5, no new blocks had been produced on the Base chain. Its builders first recognized the “stalled” block manufacturing at 9:36 pm UTC, based on the Base standing website.
“We recognized a delay in block manufacturing on account of a part of our inner infrastructure requiring a refresh. We’ve applied a repair and are seeing widespread restoration,” Coinbase informed Cointelegraph in response to a question on the outage.
Base claims the difficulty has since been recognized with the crew now deployed a repair which has seen a “widespread restoration” of block manufacturing. It is 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 don’t seem to be 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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