Base’s state update system was disrupted by the same upgrade-related software bug tied to Thursday’s protocol outage; according to L2BEAT research lead donnoh.eth, the issue was harder to detect because withdrawals take about seven days.
Base’s network state update system was interrupted for more than 30 hours due to the same bug in upgrade software that also caused Thursday’s protocol disruption, which left the network unavailable for nearly six hours. According to L2BEAT research lead donnoh.eth, the problem was not immediately visible because withdrawals on the network take about seven days, delaying detection of issues affecting state tracking. The incidents highlighted operational instability linked to software updates and renewed focus on monitoring, validator and infrastructure visibility, and reliable onchain data synchronization in layer-2 networks.