Coinbase-backed Base returns after 2-hour consensus halt
SummaryBase halted block production after an invalid block disrupted consensus and stopped new block creation.The outage came hours before Beryl, a network upgrade aimed at faster withdrawals.Jesse Pollak said user funds stayed safe, while calling the network halt unacceptable for Base. The Ethereum layer-2 network said blocks were again being produced normally after engineers worked through the incident. Base first reported unhealthy block production on its official status page at 4:03 p.m. UTC. The team later said it had isolated a consensus problem that caused an invalid block to be sequenced. That event stopped new blocks from being created after block 47,806,542. You might also like: ZachXBT warns AscendEX may face liquidity issues as withdrawals stall In a later X update, Base said, “blocks are being produced normally” and that it had verified broad recovery across the ecosystem. The team added that it would continue to investigate the root cause and share a full post-mortem. Blocks are being produced normally, and we have verified widespread recovery in the ecosystem. Any remaining stuck Base nodes will recover upon restart and syncing. The team has found the root cause for this halt and well share a full post mortem based on our learnings and… — Base Build (@buildonbase) June 25, 2026 The