Base blockchain suffered a second chain halt in 24 hours on Friday, with the incident occurring less than three hours before the B20 Activation Registry window and the incident still unresolved as of Friday afternoon.

Deposits and withdrawals have also been affected, while transactions are delayed or stalled, according to Base's status page.

Ethereum layer-2 network Base was down for more than two hours as it ran into an issue with block production ahead of a planned upgrade.