Base halted block production for 33 minutes

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Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer-2 blockchain, experienced a 33-minute outage on Tuesday after a faulty system switch disrupted block production. The issue arose at 6:07 a.m. UTC when the network’s main sequencer—responsible for ordering transactions—began to lag. To prevent downtime, the network relies on a management tool called Conductor, designed to automatically reroute operations to a backup sequencer. However, in this instance, the conductor mistakenly redirected the load to a mainnet sequ...