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Base stalled block production for a second time in less than 24 hours on Friday morning, describing the incident as showing 'similar symptoms' to Thursday's roughly two-hour outage, with the event arriving less than three hours before the B20 Activation Registry was anticipated to go live.
Read full articleFrequent outages on Base highlight the risks of centralized sequencers, potentially undermining trust in its network reliability and future upgrades. The post Base halts block production for second time in 24 hours before B20 Registry launch appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Sophon is decommissioning its zkSync-based Layer 2 chain and pivoting to Soph+, a consumer product studio building exclusively on Base. The shutdown caps a chain that raised $60 million through node sales but attracted fewer than 200 daily users and generated roughly $30 in daily fees.
Coinbase-incubated Layer 2 Base stalled block production for about two hours Thursday after an invalid block triggered a consensus fault, before the network recovered. The outage renewed scrutiny of single-sequencer risk on major rollups.
Base has delayed its Beryl mainnet upgrade by one day to ensure the B20 Activation Registry is fully operational before the hard fork goes live. Base announced that Beryl will now activate on mainnet on June 26 at 18:00 UTC…
A consensus failure triggered by one invalid block caused two hours of Base downtime, raising serious questions about L2 reliability and centralized sequencer design. The post Is Coinbase Cooked? Single Invalid Block Froze Base for Two Hours appeared first on 99Bitcoins.
Coinbase's expansion into local currency stablecoins could enhance global financial inclusion and reduce reliance on the US dollar. The post Base supports over 25 local currency stablecoins as Coinbase pushes beyond the dollar appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Base returned online after a two-hour outage caused by a consensus issue, with Coinbase’s layer-2 network promising a full post-mortem.
Coinbase's blockchain Base says a consensus problem knocked its network offline for around two hours on Thursday before it returned online.
