Tim Garcia
@TimGarcia0
Validator Relations Lead @SolanaFndn
Congratulations to the @jump_firedancer team on their huge milestone! Firedancer v0 is ready for @solana mainnet-beta 🔥💃 I spoke with Michael from the Firedancer team about the Firedancer v0 architecture. Check it out 👇
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Validators! The request for 25% of stake to upgrade to 2.3.5 is out. If you haven't done so already, please upgrade
Are equities a suitable asset class to bring on-chain? Let’s hear what @calilyliu and @nickducoff think.
It's a good day for big blocks! SOL Strategies validator is now regularly building close to 60m CU blocks on Mainnet fd.solstrategies.io/?slot=355104748
Happy 60 Million CUs to those who celebrate! My Block Logic validator is looking strong. 🎉 #solana
Solana is about to gain 20% more capacity. Moving from 50m compute units per block to 60 million compute units per block. IBRL
Our new Solana mainnet validator Ghost is live. If you find our public data & research useful, please consider delegating to support our work. stakewiz.com/validator/HJmf…
We are constantly looking to strengthen the @solana ecosystem in South America in order to enable more financial freedom in LATAM, but running a Solana validator comes with a unique set of challenges, especially when it comes to how metrics are reported and interpreted. 🌐🧵
With the GENIUS Act, stablecoins are no longer “crypto.” They’re essential financial infrastructure. And Solana is becoming their default rails. Fiserv. Worldpay. Stripe. Visa. PayPal. Payment giants are choosing Solana, the natural Schelling point for onchain global finance…
1/7 Almost a month has passed since epoch 805. Sharing the latest sandwich <-> validator data for epoch 819 @MarinadeFinance removed the worst offenders from their stake pools, which has had a significant impact in reducing sandwich attacks on Solana
Solana's slow validator meta is a pretty interesting yarn. Here's what's happening, with exclusive details on how core Solana folks are attempting to fix things:
Join us this Thursday at 5pm ET on Spaces! "Tokenization: State of Play" together with @superstatefunds where we review the progress of Project Open, the vision of tokenized stocks and the unlocks, the roles of issuers and shareholders and the benefits and drawbacks of various…
You can simply skip sending @solana transactions to leaders you don’t trust. Learn how on the @triton_one blog blog.triton.one/introducing-ye…
I’ve been pretty quiet about this, but enough is enough. You should NOT be staking with any validator drastically delaying block production. It HURTS you. This isn’t just about Kiln. It’s others as well. If you are staking with one of these validators, you should move your…
🚨NEWS: @Kiln_finance Under Fire for Sabotaging Solana's Performance - Why Delay Block Times? ✍️ @solace_fm solanafloor.com/news/kiln-unde…
This might be controversial, but your transactions should be able to fight back against malicious sandwiching validators. I built a simple program to do exactly that. You can't know at runtime if slippage is natural market movement or a sandwich attack. But if your swap lands…
Solana ships features when they are ready. Since the beginning of 2025, Solana has activated 27 feature gates across 82 epochs 🧵
Yet another reason to ship alpenglow 🔜
Alpenglow fixes this with local timeouts and skip mechanisms. if the cluster agrees time is up for the last leader, the next leader can build blocks based on the last confirmed block bypassing the misbehaving leader