Svmuu News: The Base Layer 2 network on the Ethereum mainnet experienced a “major outage,” preventing the stable production of new blocks. According to the Base status page, the issue occurred around 16:03 UTC.
Base resumed operations after approximately two hours of downtime; the outage had caused block production and transaction processing to pause.
The Base team stated that an invalid block triggered the issue; they are currently investigating the root cause and have advised node operators to restart their nodes. This incident marks another network outage for Base following the one in August 2025.