Base Says Sequencer Failure Caused Block Production Halt of 33 Minutes

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Block production on Coinbase’s (COIN) Base network halted for 33 minutes early Tuesday following a sequencer failover that didn’t recover as expected, developers said in a post-mortem report Wednesday. The outage began at 06:07 UTC on Aug. 5, when the active sequencer fell behind due to congestion from on-chain activity. While Base’s Conductor module — a core component of the OP Stack designed to maintain uptime — correctly attempted to shift leadership to a standby sequencer, the new instance h...