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The Mesa Upgrade is Mina's next major hard fork, bringing five significant improvements to the protocol – each designed to unlock greater developer capability, improve network performance, and streamline how future upgrades are carried out.
From Mesa Trail to ecosystem milestones and new developer tooling, here's where things stand across the Mina community in Q2 2026.
Trailblazers successfully concluded after three weeks of testing, bringing together 39 participants from 19 countries to validate Mina's upcoming Mesa upgrade.
The Mina ecosystem now has a second browser wallet! Developed by the team at WeStake.Club, Clorio Connect is live on the Chrome Web Store.
As validation continues ahead of Mina's Mainnet Mesa Upgrade, the Trailblazers Program will run an additional hard fork this weekend (Friday 19th to Sunday 21st of June) to finalize outstanding fixes and validate Automode functionality.
The primary goal for Archive Node Operators in the Trailblazers program (Mesa Upgrade Testnet) is to validate the upgrade path for existing Berkeley-era Rosetta deployments, ensuring they function correctly under the new Mesa protocol rules.
This program aims to validate the upgrade mechanism and toolset through an end-to-end dry run, testing both the Pre-Upgrade build and Mesa Release Candidate ahead of Mina’s upcoming Mainnet Upgrade.
The primary goal of the Emergency Hard Fork drill is to validate the unplanned upgrade path for Mesa-era operators when the network has not been gracefully halted via a stop-slot release.
Built by ZkNoid, Wizard Battle is the first fully verifiable player-versus-player game on Mina.
Protokit is a protocol development framework for building privacy-enabled applications on Mina.
From Mesa's steady progress to ecosystem milestones and events across the world — here's where things stand across the Mina ecosystem in Q1 2026.
Over the last month, the o1Labs engineering team has run structured testing across Mesa's core features, generating real data and iterating quickly on the findings.
Mina uses advanced cryptography and recursive zk-SNARKs to deliver true decentralization at scale.
Getting started with ZK on Mina is simple.
