Q1 2026 Mina Ecosystem Update

Mina in Q1 2026

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.

Zooming Out

In March, we celebrated five years of Mina mainnet — a network that has grown steadily, matured meaningfully, and built a solid foundation for what’s coming next. Thank you to everyone who has been part of that journey, whether you’ve been here since day one or just recently joined.

🔧 Mesa Update

Mesa is approaching code freeze and will move into its last round of testing before the mainnet upgrade scheduled for later this year.

Mesa brings several protocol-level improvements for zkApp developers:

• On-chain state per zkApp account increases from 8 to 32 field elements
• Events and actions expand to support up to 1024 field elements per transaction
• Account-update limits per transaction are raised
• Slot times are reduced from 180 to 90 seconds

Importantly, Mesa also introduces an automated hard fork mechanism, meaning future upgrades can happen easier and with less manual coordination overhead.

Under the Hood: The team just wrapped up the final planned optimization for the Mesa Upgrade build pipeline. Build time has dropped from ~55 minutes to ~27 minutes through caching and parallelized jobs, and the hard fork package itself is now ready in around 7 minutes. 

Developers can start experimenting with Mesa’s expanded limits on testnet now. You can keep up with weekly progress updates on Discord, X, or Telegram.

🌐 Ecosystem Highlights

Independent teams across the Mina ecosystem have been shipping and building. Here are some of the standout moments from the quarter:

💡 Lumina launches on mainnet Zeko released Lumina, an SDK for building DEXs on Mina. Solis is the first DEX to go live on mainnet using the Lumina framework, a meaningful milestone for the Mina ecosystem.

🌉 Nori: The Nori team is integrating the Aligned Layer bridge into their solution to enable two-way bridging with Ethereum. They are currently preparing for an audit, which will make the solution production-ready.

🎮 zkNoid: The Wizard Battle testnet ran for two weeks and saw 290 participants and 11,000+ battles played. The team is working towards bringing the game to Mina mainnet, with a marketplace and tournaments also on the roadmap.

👛 Auro Wallet: Auro recently released new versions of both their mobile wallet and browser extension, with a range of performance and quality-of-life improvements.

🔌 Clorio: Clorio is making progress on an update that would enable the Mina community to use it as a browser extension. A beta version is expected in the coming months.

🔐 FROST Multisig implementation: The Raspberry Devs team is wrapping up work to support the Mesa Upgrade and preparing for an audit.

🛠️ Shipping Consistently

Alongside the Mesa work, the team has continued shipping regular o1js releases. Here’s what’s landed recently:

• o1js 2.14.0
• o1js 2.13.1
• o1js 3.0 Mesa pre-release (Mesa compatible)
• o1js 2.0 Native Prover Prerelease
• o1js 3.0 Native Prover + Mesa Prerelease

🌍 Events

The o1Labs team has been active at events across the ecosystem this quarter, with more planned for Q2:

FOSSASIA: Florian Kluge from the o1Labs engineering team presented “o1js: A Developer-Friendly Path to Zero-Knowledge Applications,” making the case for why ZK shouldn’t require a cryptography PhD to build with.

EthCC: o1Labs Technical Architect, George Agapov, attended to network and explore collaboration opportunities on behalf of o1Labs.

ETHConf (8–10 June): Some of the o1Labs team will be on the ground in New York for ETHConf. If you’re attending, reach out to connect! 

zkSummit (7 May): Several of the o1Labs engineers will be in Rome for zkSummit, keeping close to the latest trends, research, and developments across the ZK space.

That’s the Q1 update. We’ll be back with more as Mesa moves through its final stages. Receive these updates straight to your email by registering for the newsletter here.