Coinbase Base network halts for 44 minutes due to 'unsafe head delay'
Coinbase’s Base network went offline for over half an hour this morning. Block 33792346 was the last to produce transactions before the outage, with subsequent blocks containing just a single transaction. “Unsafe head delay” has been given as the reason for the downtime, according to the network’s status page, which shows that “four components had a major outage” on Base mainnet today. Despite no official comment on the outage, a post noting “Base mainnet chain is currently stalled” was published eight minutes into the incident. @base is experiencing a chain halt, all other services remain operational. Last block 33792346 pic.twitter.com/vW0dCQzQQP — Pangea (@in_pangea) August 5, 2025 Read more: Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base are fighting over $52 billion DeFi pie The status page’s preliminary incident report indicates that the outage was “identified and fixed” at 06:44 UTC. Blocks containing transactions resumed at height 33793679 at 06.51 UTC, 44 minut...