Base’s 33-Minute Outage Highlights Centralization Risks and Future Improvements in Ethereum Layer-2 Blockchain

Key Points

1. The outage lasted 33 minutes, starting at 6:07 am UTC, and was resolved by 6:40 am UTC.

2. The issue was triggered by a switch to an unprepared backup sequencer when the active sequencer fell behind in block production.

3. Base's head of engineering acknowledged the incident and stated the team identified ways to improve system resilience.

4. Some crypto commentators viewed the outage as a sign of Base's popularity, comparing it to Solana's past issues.

5. This was Base's second major outage, following a 43-minute halt shortly after its public launch in September 2023.