Base, Coinbase's Layer 2 network, stalled block production for a second time in less than 24 hours on Friday morning, resuming within about 14 minutes but leaving the incident officially unresolved as of the most recent status update.
The second halt began at 11:33 a.m. ET Friday, according to the network's status incident page. Base's team described it as exhibiting "similar symptoms" to Thursday's roughly two-hour outage. Block production resumed at 11:47 a.m. ET, but the incident remained in a monitoring state as of 3:44 p.m. ET Friday.
Thursday's first halt started at 12:03 p.m. ET when an invalid block entered the sequencer pipeline, stopping all block production at block 47,806,542. Base's team traced the root cause to a consensus fault: the sequencer accepted a malformed block, preventing any subsequent blocks from being built. Block production resumed roughly two hours later after the team restarted the sequencer. Node operators needed to manually restart their nodes to resume syncing.
A recovery note posted during Thursday's incident said the Beryl hardfork remained on track for its 2:00 p.m. ET activation. It activated as planned, with the scheduled maintenance marked complete by 3:22 p.m. ET Thursday.
