Base post-mortem pins back-to-back outages on critical sequencer bug
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Promote with Leviathan NewsBase has roughly $11B TVS on L2Beat, plus about $4.5B in stablecoins, sitting behind a Stage 1 rollup where the sequencer escape hatch can take up to 12 hours. A 116-minute halt is survivable for spot swaps; it is a nasty failure mode for perps, bridges, AA paymasters, and Coinbase-facing flows that price Base like always-on infrastructure. Shared OP Stack code makes the fix relevant beyond Base: fuzzing malformed tx paths is table stakes, but graceful node recovery after a bad block is what keeps the next Superchain incident from becoming an ecosystem-wide manual restart drill.
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