From Mesa Trail to ecosystem milestones and new developer tooling, here’s where things stand across the Mina community in Q2 2026.
🔧 Mesa Upgrade: From Development to Validation
The Mesa Upgrade continues to be the primary focus for the Mina ecosystem.
This quarter marked a major milestone with the launch of Mesa Trail, the first public test network designed to simulate the complete upgrade process from Berkeley to Mesa.
Together with 29 community node operators, multiple upgrade scenarios were successfully tested, including Berkeley-to-Mesa upgrades, emergency hard forks, Mesa-to-Mesa upgrades, archive node compatibility, Rosetta integration, load testing, and zkApp validation.
The Mesa Trail network remains live as testing continues with ecosystem partners, exchanges, and staking pool operators ahead of the upcoming Devnet and Mainnet upgrades.
You can keep up with weekly progress updates on Discord, X, or Telegram.
🛠️ Engineering Milestones
Protokit is now live on Devnet: Enabling developers to begin building and testing more complex shared-state, privacy-enabled applications on Mina. This represents another important step toward expanding what’s possible on the network.
Native Prover reached production readiness: o1js 2.15.0 shipped with the Native Prover, which is now stable and production-ready. Developers can benefit from faster proof generation, support for larger circuits, and improved performance without requiring changes to existing circuit code.
🌐 Ecosystem Highlights
Independent teams across the Mina ecosystem have been shipping and building. Here are some of the standout moments from the quarter:
💡 Zeko: Zeko has officially launched on mainnet! Alongside the launch, the team is also developing Santa Clawz, an AI coordination framework designed to enable autonomous agents to operate in real-world environments.
🌉 Nori: Nori has launched the first phase of its Mina-to-Ethereum bridge testnet. The initial release supports one-way bridging, with two-way functionality planned in a future phase.
🎮 zkNoid: Built by zkNoid, Wizard Battle is now live as the first fully verifiable PvP game on Mina’s mainnet, demonstrating how zero knowledge proofs can power competitive gaming.
Ledger: Ledger users can now securely sign zkApp transactions directly from their hardware wallet, bringing another important security milestone to the Mina ecosystem.
🔌 Clorio: WeStake.Club launched Clorio Connect, offering the Mina ecosystem a second browser wallet. Note: Clorio Connect is currently in beta and has not yet undergone a security audit.
🔐 FROST Multisig implementation: The FROST threshold signature wallet implementation is now undergoing audit with Veridise, bringing the project another step closer to production readiness.
📝 From the blog
This quarter, o1Labs published several deep dives covering protocol upgrades, developer tooling, and where we see zero knowledge technology heading.
Introducing a New Standard for Mina Protocol Upgrades: How Mesa’s automated hard forks simplify future network upgrades.
Introducing Protokit: Privacy-Enabled Applications on Mina: An introduction to the protocol development framework for building privacy-enabled applications.
o1js 2.15.0: The One with the Native Prover: A closer look at the Native Prover and the performance improvements now available to developers.
What We Learned at ETHConf: How the conversation around zero knowledge is expanding beyond privacy and scaling into security, verifiability, and AI.
🌍 ETHConf
In June, the o1Labs team sponsored and attended ETHConf in New York, meeting with builders, investors, institutions, and potential partners while exploring emerging applications for verifiable, auditable, and trust-minimized systems.
Deepthi, o1Labs Co-CEO, also spoke about how zero knowledge technology is evolving beyond privacy and scaling toward powering real-world systems that require accountability and verifiability. These conversations continue to shape our thinking as we explore new opportunities for Mina and ZK technology more broadly. You can find the full talk here.
☕ Coffee & Commits
This quarter also saw the launch of Coffee & Commits, a recurring livestream with the o1Labs team where we share the latest on protocol upgrades, engineering work, ecosystem progress, and what’s shipping next.
You can now catch up on Episode 1 and Episode 2 on YouTube.
We look forward to sharing more progress with you!
About Mina Protocol
Mina is the world’s lightest blockchain, powered by participants. Rather than apply brute computing force, Mina uses advanced cryptography and recursive zk-SNARKs to design an entire blockchain that is about 22kb, the size of a couple of tweets. It is the first layer-1 to enable efficient implementation and easy programmability of zero knowledge smart contracts (zkApps). With its unique privacy features and ability to connect to any website, Mina is building a private gateway between the real world and crypto—and the secure, democratic future we all deserve.
