Base Network Resumes Operations After 2-Hour Outage

Odaily Odaily reports that the Ethereum Layer 2 network Base mainnet experienced a "major failure," leading to unstable production of new blocks. According to the Base status page, the issue began around 16:03 UTC.

Base resumed operations after approximately two hours of downtime. This failure previously halted block production and transaction processing.

The Base team stated that an invalid block triggered the related issue. They are currently investigating the root cause and recommend that node operators restart their nodes. This incident marks another network interruption for Base following its previous downtime in August 2025.