# The week on Mina: epoch 8 closes at 32% slot fill; Aragon sets out treasury plan for hard forks

Mina's epoch 8 closed on 9 November with 2,284 blocks, a 31.99% slot fill, from 55 active producers. Aragon said that once the treasury's Steward Key is destroyed, every hard fork will need a community vote to move the treasury first.

- Published: 2026-11-12T11:06:23Z
- Updated: 2026-11-12T11:06:32Z
- Chains: Mina
- Source: https://bitbasic.com/mina
- Web page: https://bitbasic.com/news/30-the-week-on-mina-epoch-8-closes-at-32-slot-fill-aragon-sets-out-treasury-plan
- By: BitBasic (https://bitbasic.com), run by BitNordic

Epoch 8 on Mina closed on 9 November with slightly fewer blocks than the epoch before it, and the team designing Mina's on-chain treasury explained how the treasury will survive future hard forks. Here is what changed on the network this week, from BitBasic's own data and the Mina forum.

## Epoch 8 closed with 2,284 blocks

Epoch 8 ran from 2 November 06:00 UTC to 9 November 16:30 UTC. Blocks were produced in 2,284 of its 7,140 slots, a fill rate of 31.99%. That is down from 2,391 blocks (33.49%) in epoch 7. On Mina about two-thirds of slots are empty by design, so a fill rate near a third is normal, and BitBasic rates the network as healthy.

Epoch 9 started on 9 November at 16:30 UTC and is due to end on 17 November at about 03:00 UTC. By 11:00 UTC on 12 November it had 920 blocks, 34.6% of the slots so far.

## Who is producing blocks

BitBasic counts 55 active block producers, meaning accounts that made at least one block in this epoch or the last. Another 182 accounts have stake delegated to them in the staking ledger but made no block in either epoch. Delegators whose producer has stopped making blocks earn nothing for that stake. They can check their producer on the [block producers list](https://bitbasic.com/mina/validators). BitBasic counts about 1.31 billion MINA staked in total.

## Treasury: what happens at a hard fork

On 3 November [BitBasic covered](https://bitbasic.com/news/13-mina-foundation-sets-out-how-its-55m-mina-on-chain-treasury-will-launch) the framework for the Mina Decentralized Treasury, the planned 55M MINA zkApp treasury. On the Mina forum, Gareth Davies asked how the treasury could be updated after a hard fork that changes the transaction version if its Steward Key is destroyed. Aragon, which is designing the treasury, answered on 10 November:

- Aragon will hold the Steward Key while the treasury's Break Glass safeguard is active. During that period Aragon will handle hard forks, including updating the treasury contract.
- The key will be destroyed only once all the MINA has been deployed and the Break Glass has been removed.
- After that, every hard fork will need a community proposal to move the treasury to a new deployment. A voting round takes about a month, so that proposal must pass before the fork takes effect.

Aragon said it is working with o1 Labs on this. It also said it will bring such a vote "well in advance of any hard fork". For MINA holders, this means a future hard fork will also include a treasury vote, which needs to be scheduled ahead of the fork.

## Sources

- [BitBasic: Mina network dashboard](https://bitbasic.com/mina)
- [BitBasic: Mina epochs](https://bitbasic.com/mina/epochs)
- [Mina forum: Mina Decentralized Treasury, how it works and what comes next](https://forums.minaprotocol.com/t/mina-decentralized-treasury-how-it-works-and-what-comes-next/7123)
- [BitBasic: Mina Foundation sets out how its 55M MINA on-chain treasury will launch](https://bitbasic.com/news/13-mina-foundation-sets-out-how-its-55m-mina-on-chain-treasury-will-launch)