Base Says Users Unaffected as Reth and Base Ship Fixes for State Root Bug
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Base and Reth shipped fixes for a state root bug, with Reth’s maintainers marking the release high priority and Base directing node operators to upgrade to v1.5.3. Base said it recomputed its state root and confirmed it was correct, and that users were unaffected by the issue. The coordinated patch matters because state root errors can signal divergence in chain state across nodes, a risk for consensus and data integrity on the OP Stack-based network. What to watch next is node upgrade adoption to v1.5.3 and whether any further state root discrepancies surface.
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