Tim Garcia

Solana Foundation

@TimGarcia0

Validator Relations Lead @SolanaFndn | 2c9a263f8805cfa3d74c02a4b6c3a6a2df6dc579dce40d2966af5fe12beb3111

Oakland, CA Joined September 2011

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Tim Garcia @TimGarcia0 Oct 20

Huge day tomorrow !

Anza @anza_xyz Oct 20

Alpenglow is pending activation on mainnet-beta.

Alpenglow goes live tomorrow, Wednesday, Oct 21 at ~14:00 UTC. One slot, and TowerBFT retires.

Migration boundary: slot 459,653,000.

24-hour countdown starts soon. Turn on notifications. 🔔

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Tim Garcia @TimGarcia0 3d

🚨 Operators! Make sure you're ready for epoch 1079 in approximately 18 hours. Upgrade now!

Solana Status @SolanaStatus 3d

All Solana mainnet staked and unstaked validators must upgrade to Agave v4.4.1 or Firedancer v26.10.6 before epoch 1079 begins (estimated Nov 6 at 13:30 UTC).

Feature gate 8whkDenELnfwYLirBc4Wb4H2Z1z5K7tiykpdxJS7cWg1 is planned to be activated at that epoch boundary.
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Tim Garcia @TimGarcia0 6d

Validators! CVE-2026-98432 is patched in the linux kernel but not yet patched on ubuntu. Here's what you need to do if you're running ubuntu:

Tim Garcia @TimGarcia0 Oct 21

It's live! Congrats to everyone that helped get this done: core devs, the research team, validators, marketing, comms and a special shout out to the 🐐 @Ashwinningg

Anza @anza_xyz Oct 21

Alpenglow is live on mainnet-beta ⛰️ 🎉

Solana’s new consensus protocol: finality reduced from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds, built by Anza.

Why this is important 🧵

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Tim Garcia @TimGarcia0 Oct 21

Less than 5000 slots to go 🚀

solana.com/upgrades/alpen…

solana.com Alpenglow Alpenglow is live on mainnet. Its first phase, Votor, replaced TowerBFT at epoch 1064, targeting roughly 150ms finality with direct validator votes and…