Leading American crypto exchange Coinbase is having issues again Wednesday—but while other recent instances were blamed on a surge in crypto trading activity amid Bitcoin’s rise to a new all-time high price, this wave of problems is being blamed on Base, the Ethereum scaling network that Coinbase itself incubated.
“Due to network congestion on the Base network, transactions on Coinbase Wallet and Coinbase.com may experience intermittent failures,” Coinbase’s status page reads. “If your transaction is not confirmed by the network, please wait or submit your transaction again on Coinbase.com. We advise that Coinbase Wallet customers wait for congestion to resolve before submitting transactions on the Base network.”
Decrypt reached out to Coinbase representatives for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.
Editor’s note: This story is developing and will be updated with additional details.
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Source: https://decrypt.co/222614/coinbase-transactions-are-failing-due-to-congestion-on-ethereum-scaler-base
