Coinbase-incubated Base blockchain suffers 'Unsafe Head Stall' interrupting block production

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Base mainnet has suffered a "major outage," according to the <a href="https://status.base.org/incidents/5c4gm1wzbjs4">blockchain’s status page</a>. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"We have identified the issue with a problematic block interfering with subsequent block building," Base posted at 16:52 UTC on Thursday.

"The team is working on several threads to remediate and we will continue to post updates as soon as we have them."</span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to the status page, Base’s block production became "unhealthy" around 16:03 UTC after a problematic block interrupted subsequent block building, described as "Unsafe Head Stall." New blocks are now not being produced reliably, though the chain may not be entirely paused.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deposits and withdrawals have also been affected while transactions are delayed or stalled, according to the page. </span></p>