Tim Garcia

@TimGarcia0

Validator Relations Lead @SolanaFndn

Oakland, CA

Joined September 2011

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Tim Garcia
@TimGarcia0
Aug 27
There are 2 ways to vote on SGPs: 1. Connect your validator identity or stake account withdraw authority to governance.solana.com to vote via the UI. 2. Use the svmgov command line tool: crates.io/crates/svmgov to vote with your validator identity or your stake account
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Tim Garcia
@TimGarcia0
Sep 22
This also marks the end of an era. Once Alpenglow is activated on Testnet, operators will no longer be able to run Frankendancer on Testnet. Kudos to @jump_firedancer for the milestone. Frankendancer has had a big impact on the ecosystem 🔥
Anza
@anza_xyz
Sep 22
Alpenglow is coming to testnet this week. 🧵 Testnet exercises the exact migration devnet and mainnet-beta will run. The Alpenglow community cluster rehearsed the migration numerous times and has been running Alpenglow for over 4 months. Now Alpenglow moves to the formal
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Tim Garcia
@TimGarcia0
Sep 16
iBRLMc81UjRa8fn8A6eE8bJTnRbgQoPTynM51akENCV - Reduce slot time to 250ms has been activated. It will take effect at the start of epoch 1037, about 36 hours from now.
200ms — Live Slot-Time Monitoring
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Tim Garcia
@TimGarcia0
Sep 16
Validators! We need more stake on v4.3.0-rc.1. Please upgrade today. We're hoping to have 25% adoption going into the weekend.
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Tim Garcia
@TimGarcia0
Sep 2
Rent is getting cheaper on Solana starting tomorrow
Solana Developers
@solana_devs
Jul 31
Agave 4.2 is almost here. The Agave 4.2 release brings three major feature-gated upgrades: - 90% rent reduction - 3.3x larger transaction size - 200ms slot times Plus, the complete code for Alpenglow, the largest protocol change in Solana's history, which is coming in Agave
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