By Isaac • June 26, 2026 5:12 pm •
Base, the Coinbase-incubated Ethereum layer-2, stalled twice in two days this week. Both times the chain recovered.
Both times the team said all funds were secure.
That part matters. No one lost money, and final settlement held.
The repeat is the story. A second stall in 48 hours turns a one-off technical hiccup into a reliability question for one of the most important rollups in crypto.
Here is what happened.
Base Mainnet is currently halted while the team works on an issue with block production. All funds are secure, and we’ll update below once resolved.
Appreciate the patience while we get it fixed.
— Base Build (@buildonbase) June 25, 2026
CoinDesk reported the first outage
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