Coinbase's Base probes suspected invalid block behind two-hour outage
Coinbases layer-2 network Base experienced an outage lasting approximately two hours on Thursday after an invalid block caused a consensus failure that stopped all transactions on the chain in what seems to be its biggest outage in 90 days. The network was affected starting at 16:03 UTC when Base‘s status page indicated the mainnet’s block production as “unhealthy”. Minutes later, the Base team informed the public about the issue. “Base Mainnet is currently halted while the team works on an issue with block production,” the network said on X at about 12:20 p.m. ET. The network stated that “all funds are secure.” Base traces outage to consensus issue Base attributed the cause of the outage to a consensus failure that saw an invalid block get into the sequencing pipeline, preventing further block creation, according to the networks status page updates. The Base team reported having pinpointed the cause of the outage 50 minutes after it initially reported the issue, at 16:52 UTC. Two hours after the disruption, the Base network resumed operations. “We‘ve verified widespread recovery in the ecosystem. If there are any remaining nodes that are still stuck, they will recover after restarting and syncing,” Base’s team reported on X. Blocks are being produced