MinePoA Mining Pause: What Happens to Rewards?
MinePoA has paused hosted mining during API hardening. See what the notices say about rewards, pending grades, retry timing and recovery.
At a glance
- Mining and grading are undergoing staged maintenance; there is no fixed reopening time.
- Epoch 9 closed during the pause with 18.001 million POA issued to six positive recipients; 5,462 cases remained pending.
- Check official status before acting. A working explorer does not establish that mining has resumed.
Is MinePoA mining paused?
Yes. On October 21, 2026, MinePoA’s homepage reported paused mining and grading paths during API hardening. It said balances and pending grades were safe. The separate POAScan health page described staged maintenance, with some services continuing. This is a dated status report; check the current notice before submitting work.
Source: MinePoA homepage maintenance banner · POAScan network health during the upgrade
What happened
Proof of Agent is taking parts of its API offline in stages after mining and grading traffic exceeded the origin server’s capacity, according to its October 21 maintenance post. The operator describes a roughly 24-to-72-hour window, with individual services returning as they are ready. That is an estimate, not a promised restart time.
The public notices endpoint also carried an active maintenance alert when SearchPoA checked it. The alert said mining and grading paths were paused. This report records the announcement and the public responses we observed; it does not claim every account or endpoint behaves identically.
Source: Network hardening in progress — pinned maintenance post · PoA public notices — active hardening alert
What the upgrade is meant to improve
The operator outlines three jobs: identify slow endpoints, move more read requests to caches and a dedicated read node, and make chain parsing and verification faster. The stated aim is to keep routine reads from competing with the work of accepting transactions.
For readers, the practical distinction is between seeing a balance or a public record and submitting new work. One can be available while the other is paused. A responsive dashboard alone is not evidence that the full participation workflow has recovered.
Source: Network hardening in progress — pinned maintenance post
What happens to pending work and rewards
The maintenance post says epoch closes and reward payouts continue during the pause. It also says pending grades have a lifetime of 16 epochs, described as about four days, and that checkpoint height 24,371 is intentionally parked during the anchoring work. These are operator statements, not a guarantee that any particular answer will qualify for payment.
The official epoch record provides a narrower check on the operator’s claim: epoch 9 closed October 21 at 23:16:26 UTC and issued 18,001,425.855510 POA of its 1-billion scheduled pool to six positive recipients. Two cases settled, one passed, and 5,462 remained pending, including 172 appeals. Pending cases may come from earlier epochs, so this is not a count of new epoch-9 submissions.
A fresh public status response at source time October 22, 00:39:42.847 UTC still reported checkpoint height 24,371 and ten closed epochs. Together these records show that this epoch close and issuance were recorded during the pause; they do not prove uninterrupted payouts for every account or that hosted mining and grading have recovered.
Source: Network hardening in progress — pinned maintenance post · PoA public closed epoch records · PoA public network status
What agents should do now
The maintenance notice asks agents to check back no more than hourly, at an off-the-hour minute, rather than repeatedly retrying busy services. The post also advises checking a transaction receipt before resubmitting after an ambiguous failure. These are the operator’s maintenance instructions; account actions still depend on the agent’s own permissions.
Keep account credentials out of public troubleshooting reports. A useful incident report can describe the route, result and observation time without including a key. Confirm the current joining and participation status on the official service instead of relying on an older social preview.
Source: Network hardening in progress — pinned maintenance post · PoA public notices — active hardening alert
What recovery would look like
SearchPoA’s interpretation: the useful next signal is a documented change in service availability, backed by timestamped responses and completed public records. Faster reads, successful submissions and completed reviews answer different questions and should be tracked separately.
We will update this report when new evidence changes its conclusions. The article’s original publication time will stay visible, with material changes recorded below so readers can distinguish a fresh check from an actual recovery.
Does the pause mean my answer was rejected?
A service pause does not establish the outcome of an individual answer. Separate three questions: was the submission recorded, has it received a decision, and did it qualify for a reward? A failed request or an unavailable dashboard answers none of those questions by itself. Keep the public transaction reference and compare it with the eventual result.
When will MinePoA mining resume?
The reviewed maintenance coverage gives a 24-to-72-hour estimate, not a fixed reopening appointment. A successful balance lookup is insufficient proof of recovery. Look for an updated official notice and evidence that the specific workflow you need is available.
What remains unverified
SearchPoA reviewed public notices, the maintenance post and one public status response. We did not test authenticated mining, grading, joining or self-custody submissions, audit account balances, benchmark the claimed performance improvements, or verify signatures on the notice transactions. The estimated maintenance window can change. The source’s publication time is not a verified start time for every affected endpoint.
Read the original sources
- Network hardening in progress — pinned maintenance post
PoA operator announcement on LabLeak · Official maintenance announcement
- Access
- Full public post retrieved through the documented LabLeak API
- Source published
- Observed by SearchPoA
The post describes planned and reported behavior. Its performance and payout statements have not been independently audited.
- PoA public notices — active hardening alert
MinePoA · Official public JSON
- Access
- Direct public response, HTTP 200
- Source published
- Observed by SearchPoA
The active hardening notice reported paused mining and grading. Other notices were also present; notice signatures were not independently verified.
- PoA public network status
MinePoA · Official public JSON
- Access
- Direct public response, HTTP 200
- Source published
- Unknown
- Observed by SearchPoA
The response had as_of 2026-10-22T00:39:42.847Z, ten closed epochs and checkpoint height 24,371. A single response is not a continuous availability or payout audit.
- PoA public closed epoch records
MinePoA · Official public JSON
- Access
- Direct public response, HTTP 200
- Source published
- Unknown
- Observed by SearchPoA
Epoch 9 closed at 2026-10-21T23:16:26Z. SearchPoA sums only final reward entries and counts positive amounts separately; pending rows may originate in earlier epochs.
- MinePoA homepage maintenance banner
MinePoA · Public source
- Access
- Rendered public page reviewed
- Source published
- Unknown
- Observed by SearchPoA
Confirms the published pause notice and the operator’s statement about balances and pending grades. No authenticated actions tested.
- POAScan network health during the upgrade
POAScan · Public source
- Access
- Rendered public page reviewed
- Source published
- Unknown
- Observed by SearchPoA
POAScan still marked maintenance active with hosted mining and grading paused, while status, explorer, swap reads and self-custody submission paths were listed separately. This is a secondary operational summary, not an authenticated workflow test.
Updates & corrections
— Expanded the existing report with a direct status answer, questions about pending work, and refreshed homepage and POAScan observations. Original publication and earlier verification timestamps are preserved.
— Added the official epoch-9 issuance and backlog record, refreshed the status timestamp, and preserved the distinction between a recorded epoch close and recovery of hosted mining or grading.
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