# @DegenerateNews: Base stopped producing blocks per Basescan data

Source: https://x.com/DegenerateNews/status/1952618232491205082
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/DegenerateNews-Base-stopped-producing-blocks-per-Basescan-data?index=0x6891b298517a7aad923bcf88d3a42980f609a758898b55e83e762d41603a8f87ca571ceb
Submitted by tim on 2025-08-05 UTC, 12 upvotes, 4 comments

NEW: BASE STOPPED PRODUCING BLOCKS - PER BASESCAN DATA

## Comments

**misha**: I try to use Base as little as possible, but of course just at the moment the chain was halted I had to swap some USDC to bid on a fc cast (which i now lost sadly) - anyway the swap is still stuck for (over 2h). only $25, but still did not improve my trust in Base lol. 

**@ichristwin.eth**: POV your are an L3 settling on base 🌝
https://tenor.com/bfRuS.gif

**freeatnet.eth**: But did it go down, or did Basescan fall behind the chain?

**misha**: They say Base halted block production bc of an issue called “unsafe head delay”. The outage was on Base network itself, not just Basescan falling behind. The network was down, stopped roughly for 30 - 45 min.

More also here:
https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Coinbases-Base-Network-Halts-Block-Production-for-Nearly-30-Minutes?index=0x6891bf05e1d423a6e91d73b4f1c218b2b684c4489c92aaebd13a63a3beb953b025f8f02e