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Base Chain Outage Exposes Growing Pains as Real Users Flood the Network
Base Chain Outage Exposes Growing Pains as Real Users Flood the Network
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Base just face-planted—hard. The Ethereum L2's latest outage reveals the brutal reality of scaling a chain when actual humans start using it.
Infrastructure or illusion?
When the 'next-gen' blockchain grinds to a halt during peak traffic, traders get a stark reminder: decentralized doesn't mean dependable. Meanwhile, Coinbase execs are probably recalculating their bonus projections.
Chaos breeds opportunity.
Arbitrum and Optimism just got free marketing as frustrated devs hedge their Layer-2 bets. The race for reliable throughput just got hotter—and Base's tech stack is sweating.
Wake-up call or death knell? For a chain banking on mainstream adoption, going offline is worse than bad PR—it's an existential threat wrapped in a gas fee spike.
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