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In brief A major outage at Amazon Web Services continued to disrupt key crypto platforms on Monday afternoon, including Coinbase, Base, and OpenSea, with issues hitting East Coast users especially hard. The downtime even impacted decentralized apps like MetaMask, which use third-party, AWS-dependent services to fetch blockchain data for users. While the disruptions highlighted crypto’s reliance on centralized infrastructure, they also drove Ethereum gas fees below 0.1 gwei—a rare, ultra-low level. As the rest of the internet began to recover Monday afternoon from a seismic Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, key crypto sites and service providers continued to struggle from the setback. Apps like Coinbase and OpenSea have remained partially or entirely down for many users, particularly those on the East Coast.  Meanwhile, even decentralized crypto wallets like MetaMask have been showing some panicked users zero balances, due to outages at a service provider the wallet depends on to fetch user data from numerous blockchains. Infura, which connects internet applications to blockchain data, continues to experience outages across the crypto ecosystem. The AWS outage continues to impact its ability to fetch data from blockchains including Ethereum, Base, Polygon, Optimism, Arbitrum, Linea, and Scroll. (Disclaimer: MetaMask and Infura are products of Consensys, one of 22 investors in an editorially independent Decrypt.) Base itself—the popular Ethereum layer-2 network incubated by Coinbase—has also continued to suffer limited network capacity, several hours after the AWS outages were first reported Monday.  After reporting that AWS-related issues on the network had been resolved on Monday afternoon, the network’s status page then returned to an error signal shortly thereafter, citing transaction-related latencies and inconsistencies in block production times.  Coinbase has also continued to struggle to regain full functionality for all customers, even as other crypto trading platforms impacted by the AWS outage, including Robinhood, have managed to…

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Filed under: News - @ October 21, 2025 6:27 am