# Degen Chain Stops Producing Blocks

Source: https://www.bankless.com/degen-chain-stops

## Summary

Degen Chain, an L3 network on Base developed by Syndicate for the DEGEN memecoin, has stopped producing blocks for over 19 hours as of 4:15 p.m. ET the previous day. The chain stopped validating new transactions, which affects all of its services, including Relay Bridge, DegenSwap, Mint Club, and Frogswap. The Degen Chain team is working with Conduit, the rollup infrastructure provider, to restore functionality. DEGEN continues to trade on Base, though it was down about 8% over the prior 24 hours.

## Article

The L3 Base network hasn't produced a block in nearly 20 hours.

Degen Chain, an L3 network on Base developed by

Syndicate* for the

DEGEN memecoin, has stopped producing blocks for over 19 hours as of 4:15 p.m. ET yesterday.

What's the scoop?

Unexpected Downtime: Yesterday afternoon, the L3 stopped validating new transactions, affecting all of its services.

Inoperative Services: Top platforms on the chain, like Relay Bridge, DegenSwap, Mint Club, and Frogswap cannot process transactions.

Working on a Fix: The Degen Chain team is working with Conduit, the rollup infrastructure platform powering Degen chain, to restore functionality.

Despite the halt in block production on Degen Chain, DEGEN the token continues to work on Base, though it's down ~8% over the past 24 hours. DEGEN is also used for gas on the L3.

Bankless Take:

Degen Chain's struggle with downtime demonstrates the newness of technologies like L3s and the costs of sacrificing decentralization for scalability. That said, a fresh L3 chain going down is not quite the same headline as a chain like

Solana facing similar problems. It may just be a sign of growing pains, especially given the chain’s popularity — having recently beat out chains like

Base and

Arbitrum by processing more transactions on certain days. For a chain less than two months old, that’s pretty impressive.

* Bankless team holds crypto assets and advise crypto projects. Syndicate and Conduit are included in our disclosures. See our complete investment disclosures here

David Christopher

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David is a writer/analyst at Bankless. Prior to joining Bankless, he worked for a series of early-stage crypto startups and on grants from the Ethereum, Solana, and Urbit Foundations. He graduated from Skidmore College in New York. He currently lives in the Midwest and enjoys NFTs, but no longer participates in them.

## Comments

**timdaub.eth**: Lol that definitely sounds like news that would mandate more than just a meagre 8% dump. The tech team of the „memecoin turned utility coin“ cannot keep the product up and running?