Overview

• Block production froze at height 33,792,704 for 29 minutes on August 5, temporarily halting deposits, withdrawals and Flashblocks operations.
• Base’s Conductor module attempted to hand off to a standby sequencer that was not fully provisioned, causing an “unsafe head delay” fault.
• No user funds were lost, but pending transactions clogged the network and degraded DeFi dApp performance.
• The Base team has announced sequencer provisioning fixes, upgraded monitoring, and broader infrastructure improvements to shore up failover resilience.
• This marks Base’s second major outage since its 2023 launch and has sparked renewed calls for decentralized failover mechanisms in Layer-2 networks.