Is Base down?
Checked against the chain itself, not a third-party dashboard.
Base is up
The chain is producing blocks normally.
Latest block 51.6M was 2s old when we checked · target is one block every 2s, checked 15:21:28 UTC
Chain readings
- Latest block
- 51.6M
- Block age when checked
- 2s
- Gas price
- 0.00600 gwei
- Endpoint
- mainnet.base.org
block at 15:21:27 UTC
Base's official public RPC
Data: Base RPC · Updated
Check it yourself
One request, no account. If this returns a block number, the chain is answering.
curl -s https://mainnet.base.org \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"eth_blockNumber","params":[]}'If that answers but your wallet or a particular app does not, the problem is more likely that app, its own RPC provider, or an indexer behind it, than Base. Other endpoints worth trying are on the network details page — there are 4 public ones listed.
Official channels
Where an incident would actually be announced.
Incident reports in the news
Stories from our Base feed that mention an outage or degradation.
- crypto.newsMoonwell MAMO exploit drains $8.7M from Base lending market
- crypto.newsBase says same sequencer bug caused June 25 and 26 outages
- CointelegraphBase says sequencer bug caused back-to-back outages
- crypto.newsCoinbase-backed Base returns after 2-hour consensus halt
- CointelegraphCoinbase's Base resumes block production after 2-hour outage
This page reads one public endpoint and reports what it says. It is not an official status source, and it cannot see problems that do not show up in block production — a stuck bridge, a lagging indexer or a broken frontend can all break your transaction while the chain itself is fine. Last checked 2026-09-20T15:21:28.556Z.