Base Network Hits First Snag: 29-Minute Outage Marks Debut Downtime

Base Network—Coinbase's Ethereum L2 darling—just blinked. For 29 minutes, transactions ground to a halt in the chain's first operational stumble since launch.

When 'Uptime' Takes a Coffee Break

No sugarcoating it—Base joined the prestigious 'chain halts happen' club today. Validators froze like deer in headlights while traders scrambled. Cue the predictable chorus of 'But decentralized means...?' from bagholders.

The Silver Lining Playbook

Twenty-nine minutes barely registers in traditional finance outage timelines (looking at you, Wall Street legacy systems). Still, crypto doesn't do subtle—expect this blip to fuel both FUD and diamond-handed 'buy the dip' tweets within the same Discord channels.

Just another day in the relentless theater of 'web3 infrastructure maturity.' Next stop: The obligatory post-mortem thread promising 'learnings' while VC backers quietly check runway projections.