The Coinbase Coinbase Ethereum network, Base, has just experienced its first breakdown since its launch in 2023. The brief disturbance interrupted block production and temporarily interrupted all transactions, which has an impact on decentralized applications and users.
What’s wrong, and how did he rebound? Here is the story.
The basic network stores temporarily
On August 5, 2025, at 6:15 am UTC, the basic team confirmed that his Mainnet had blocked. This affected deposits, withdrawals, production of blocks and flash blocks. The Blockchain Blockchain Explorers and Oklink reported the problem earlier, noting that the production of blocks had stopped at the 33,792 704 block.
Although no immediate reason has been given, the basic team solved the problem within 30 minutes. The operations have been restored and the network is now under active surveillance to ensure stability.
Although the breakdown was brief, it recalled the importance of availability, especially for DEFI users who count on quick and uninterrupted access. Even these short disruptions can shake up user confidence, an impact on liquidity and dropout activity.
The base exceeds Solana in tokens launches
The main Mainnet recently saw a peak of activity. Base has exceeded Solana in launches of daily tokens on July 24 and held the head since, according to Dune Analytics. On July 27, Base recorded more than 54,000 new tokens, more than 25,460 from Solana.
This point is largely motivated by the renamed basic application, which now includes Zora and Farcaster. Just on August 2, Zora represented 64.6% of all the new tokens on the two networks, with 39,778 launched in a single day.
The new basic application combines social media with the creation of tokens, allowing users to hit tokens directly from their messages. This function has aroused significant interest in the Zora token, which works on the basic network.
Base is preparing for major improvements
Base is now preparing for a series of technical upgrades aimed at making the network faster, cheaper and more decentralized.
The key objectives include the reduction of confirmation times to only 200 milliseconds, the maintenance of costs less than $ 0.01 and the scaling of more than 200 transactions per second, ultimately targeting 1 million TP.
The network also plans to extend the gas flow of 25 million to 250 million gases per second by the end of the year and to pass the logic of the basic protocol to Ethereum Layer 1, allowing a wider participation in network governance.
With these upgrades and their growing momentum, the base is positioned as a high -level rival of Solana et suis. It is unlikely that the stop time affects the status of its market for the moment!
