QuickNode incident

Base Sepolia - Degraded Performance

QuickNode is currently experiencing a minor incident affecting Sepolia - JSON-RPC API and Sepolia - WebSocket API and 1 more component, which began 3d ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 18, 2026, 01:42 AM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 2d 12h
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 18, 2026, 01:42 AM UTC

Affected components

Sepolia - JSON-RPC APISepolia - WebSocket APISepolia —WebhooksSepolia — Streams

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 18, 2026, 01:42 AM UTC

    The Quicknode team is investigating degraded performance of Base Sepolia in FRA region. We will follow up once we have more updates.

  2. monitoring Aug 18, 2026, 01:45 AM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. investigating Aug 18, 2026, 06:08 PM UTC

    The Quicknode team is investigating degraded performance of Base Sepolia. Users may observe 503 responses from their requests. We will follow up once we have more updates.

  4. identified Aug 19, 2026, 06:32 AM UTC

    Customers may experience higher error rates, including 503 responses. We are in active communication with the Foundation and waiting for a new release to mitigate this. Further updates will be provided as the situation develops.

  5. investigating Aug 19, 2026, 09:52 AM UTC

    The Quicknode team is investigating the degraded performance of Base Sepolia - we will update this page as we acquire new information.