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  Block production on Base abruptly halted for 43 minutes as developers rushed to implement a fix. 
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 <p>Coinbase's Ethereum layer-2 network Base has <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="suffer" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/suffer.html">suffer</a> its first <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="major" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/major.html">major</a> <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="outage" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/outage.html">outage</a> since its public <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="launch" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/launch.html">launch</a> on Aug. 9. </p> 
 <p>For approximately 45 minutes on Sept. 5, no new blocks were produced on the Base chain. Its developers first identified the "stalled" block production at 9:36 pm UTC, according to the Base status site.</p> 
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  <figcaption style="text-align: center;"> <em>Block production on the Base network stalled at 9:36pm Sept. 5. Source: BaseScan</em> 
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 <p>“We identified a delay in block production due to part of our internal infrastructure requiring a refresh. We’ve implemented a fix and are seeing widespread recovery,” Coinbase told Cointelegraph in response to a query on the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="outage" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/outage.html">outage</a>.&nbsp;</p> 
 <p>Base claims the issue has since been identified with the team now deployed a fix which has seen a "widespread recovery" of block production. It's continuing to monitor the chain for further issues.&nbsp;</p> 
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  <figcaption style="text-align: center;"> <em>Base developers said the cause of the outage has been identified and fixed. Source: Base</em> 
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 <p>Matt Willemsen, head of research at crypto education platform Collective Shift, highlighted the differences in using Ethereum's Layer 2 networks and claimed they aren't as "battle tested" as Ethereum's mainnet.</p> 
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  <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Coinbase's Base chain just had its first <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="major" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/major.html">major</a> <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="outage" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/outage.html">outage</a>, lasting for 43 minutes. Blocks have just started to be produced again.<br><br>Another reminder that using Ethereum L2s (e.g. Arbitrum One, OP Mainnet, zkSync Era, Base) is NOT the same as using Ethereum mainnet, which is more… pic.twitter.com/JbUNQUGNwu</p>— Matt Willemsen (@matt_willemsen) September 5, 2023 
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<p>Source: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://thebittimes.com/base-suffers-first-major-outage-since-launch-tbt61664.html">https://thebittimes.com/base-suffers-first-major-outage-since-launch-tbt61664.html</a></p>

Base suffers first major outage since launch

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