Some news from the official forum:

Pool01 is decomissioned (Source: https://talk.vanillacoin.net/topic/174/pool01-decommissioned)

Pool02 will still function for FPGA testing and GPU mining, also please note that faster FPGAs will be also able to function on suprnova's pools in the future.

ZeroTime testing still ongoing, seems John is running double-spend tests (Source: https://talk.vanillacoin.net/topic/173/zerotime/2)