Coinbase suspends ETH, ERC20 withdrawals
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The Coinbase public listing week is off to a rocky start. The company announced today it was temporarily disabling withdrawals for ETH-based tokens ERC20 and ETH today, less than 24 hours after Coinbase shares hit the market.
Due to an issue with the recent network upgrade, we’ve temporarily disabled ETH and ERC20 withdrawals from Coinbase and Coinbase Pro. Receives of these assets may also be delayed. We’re working on a fix, and we’ll send an update as soon as we have one. https://t.co/pWGFAd9Aqb
— Coinbase Support (@CoinbaseSupport) April 15, 2021
The decision appears to have been made following issues with ETH’s ‘Berlin’ network upgrade, which took place yesterday. According to Coinbase Support, the upgrade has caused enough issues for Coinbase to need to suspend withdrawals of ETH and ERC20 entirely.
The upgrade, named for the city in which ETH’s first DevCon was hosted, incorporates four proposals concerning the “gas” cost associated with certain transactions as well as enabling new transaction types. The upgrade was originally meant to take place mid-2020, but ironically the decision was made to postpone deployment over concerns over centralisation.
The timing is not great for either Coinbase digital currency exchange or ETH. Downtime of any kind for one of the more recognizable digital assets is a bad look for Coinbase so soon after going public, especially since shares ended their first day 14% lower than their opening price. For this to happen at the same time as excitement over the ETH upgrade has caused enjoying a sharp run-up in price over recent weeks is also unfortunate.
The issue was first announced 4:52 PDT, according to Coinbase’s support page and was still being worked on at the time of writing.
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