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Is Ethereum Down Right Now?

Ethereum is the largest layer-1 smart-contract blockchain, producing a block roughly every 12 seconds. This page reads Ethereum's latest block from a public RPC to tell you whether the network is producing blocks — or whether it's your wallet or a single node that's failing.

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Producing blocksEthereum mainnet

Ethereum is producing blocks normally — the latest block was 5s ago (based on a public RPC, ethereum-rpc.publicnode.com).

Latest block
#25,397,222
Last block
5s ago
RPC latency
38ms
RPC node
ethereum-rpc.publicnode.com
Reads the latest block from a public RPC. One node's view — not a multi-node consensus.

What “Ethereum is down” actually means

Ethereum mainnet has never fully halted block production — its thousands of independent validators make a total stop extremely unlikely. So when people search 'is Ethereum down', the real issue is almost always something else: a public RPC provider (Infura, Alchemy, your wallet's default node) is failing, gas fees have spiked so high that transactions look stuck, or finality is briefly delayed. This page reads Ethereum's latest block over a public RPC; a still-advancing block number means the chain is fine and the fault is in the infrastructure around it.

If Ethereum seems down

1
Confirm the latest block is advancing on etherscan.io — if it is, Ethereum is fine and your RPC/wallet is the problem.
2
Switch your wallet's RPC endpoint to a different provider (PublicNode, Cloudflare, LlamaRPC) before assuming an outage.
3
A 'stuck' transaction is usually an underpriced one during a gas spike — check current gas on etherscan.io/gastracker and speed it up.
4
Major RPC providers post at status.infura.io / status.alchemy.com — an outage there breaks dapps without the chain being down.
5
Delayed finality (no finalized epoch) is reported by client teams on consensus dashboards, not by a halt of block production.

Frequently asked questions

Is Ethereum down right now?
This page reads Ethereum's latest block from a public RPC. If the block height shown above is advancing, Ethereum is producing blocks and is not down. A frozen, non-advancing height means the chain may be halted; an "RPC unreachable" result means we couldn't reach a node — which can be that node rather than the chain itself.
How does WebsiteDown check if Ethereum is down?
We send a JSON-RPC request to a public Ethereum endpoint and read the latest block and its timestamp. If it hasn't advanced past a Ethereum-specific staleness threshold, we flag it as halted. We don't run a validator, so this is one node's view — confirm with the official status page during an incident.
Is the chain halted, or is it just my wallet or RPC?
Most "is Ethereum down" moments are a wallet or a single RPC failing, not the chain. If the block height here is climbing, the network is live — switch your wallet's RPC endpoint. Only a frozen, non-advancing block height points to an actual Ethereum halt.
What should I do if Ethereum is halted?
There is no user-side fix for a true halt — your funds stay safe on-chain and transactions resume when the network restarts. Follow the official status channels linked above for restart timing instead of repeatedly resubmitting transactions.

Get told when Ethereum halts

WebsiteDown can watch Ethereum's block height on a schedule and email you if it stops advancing — no need to keep refreshing this page.

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