Pause Activity - Base Documentation

If something goes wrong, halt activity fast. B20 pausing is granular: stop transfers, mints, or burns independently. PAUSE_ROLE and UNPAUSE_ROLE are separate, so the ability to stop the token can be held more widely than the ability to resume it.

Demo

Pause and resume

Terminal

# Halt transfers only; minting and burning keep working.
base-cast send $TOKEN_ADDRESS "pause(uint8)" $(base-cast keccak "TRANSFER") \
  --rpc-url $RPC_URL --private-key $PAUSER_KEY

# Resume when the incident is resolved.
base-cast send $TOKEN_ADDRESS "unpause(uint8)" $(base-cast keccak "TRANSFER") \
  --rpc-url $RPC_URL --private-key $UNPAUSER_KEY

See also

Block an account
Pause in the B20 standard