Coinbase layer 2 network Base experienced a 33-minute network outage on Tuesday, caused by a failure during a sequencer failover process.

The primary sequencer responsible for ordering transactions began lagging, prompting the system called Conductor to switch to a backup sequencer.

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However, the backup sequencer was not properly configured or fully prepared to take over, resulting in the network halting block production and transaction processing during the outage.

“We quickly switched to a healthy mainnet sequencer and Base Chain resumed normal operation,” said the Base team in a statement.