24 April 2025 Thursday, 24 April 2025 at 19:00 UTC Meeting link https://meet.google.com/oxt-avji-yvz 1 - Administrative These community validator calls are held on the 4th Thursday of each month Contact Max Sherwood if you'd like a meeting invite Not recorded Open to the public

Purpose This will be the second annual community-run validator conference. It's held directly before Breakpoint, this year in Singapore. The goal is for the validator community to discuss the evolution of the network and reinforce the social layer. Date September 18, 2024 0930 - 1730 AM GMT+8

Provided by Chainflow Summary of Validator Discussions (June 18-20, 2024) Network Upgrades and Node Performance Deployment and Performance: Validators discussed the deployment and performance of Solana's version 1.18, noting significant improvements in transaction handling and node performance. They observed a shift in transaction patterns, with blocks consistently handling more transactions than before. Criticism of Poor Management: Validators expressed frustration at operators who failed to manage their nodes properly, even when mainnet operations are highly profitable. Specific Validators: Figment was mentioned as a validator with poor testnet performance but high mainnet performance, illustrating discrepancies between testnet and mainnet operations. Validator Management and Technical Issues

2 May 2024 When running this sequence /deps.sh nuke ./deps.sh cd firedancer git pull

Background There is a general agreement among key stakeholders that timely vote credits should be activated on mainnet. There's also support to hold a community signaling vote prior to activation. See the Appendix for additional timely vote credits details. Voting process A signaling vote will be conducted. It will use the same process used to hold the first governance signaling vote. [Is a quorum needed? - TBD] Timeline (need dates) Activate timely vote credits on testnet

Stakenet? Stakenet is a self-sustaining protocol designed for Solana LSTs, comprising on-chain programs including the steward program, on-chain history program, and keeper bots. Operating on the Solana mainnet, Stakenet aims to assume complete management of Jito Sol. The steward program acts as the stakepool manager, determining the scoring of validators and facilitating dynamic stake management, including the movement of deposits and the handling of undelegating from underperforming validators each new epoch. The validator history program serves as an oracle or database, capable of storing three years of mainnet validators' data, encompassing historical performance, commission rates, IPs, and client types. Executing instructions permissionlessly, the keeper bots, open to anyone, perform essential operations every epoch to sustain the system, requiring only a small amount of SOL for maintenance. What is stakenet and its components? Stakenet, driven by the inspiration to enhance existing stakepool practices, aims to improve upon the centralized keypair structure prevalent in current staking models. The motivation stems from the recognition that stakeholders harbor substantial trust in the teams overseeing stake pools. To address this, Stakenet seeks to reconstruct the architecture, introducing full transparency from end to end. By doing so, the reliance on trusting core teams to manage stake pools is diminished, fostering increased trust in the stakepool itself. The project emphasizes improvements in security concerning stakepool operations, striving to minimize trust in how these pools are administered. This is achieved by putting governance on-chain and reducing the necessity for extensive human coordination. Stakenet's approach makes managing pools more accessible and inclusive. How should one use stakenet?

"StakeNet: A self-sustaining protocol for intelligent Solana LSTs" Intros Chris / Chainflow Evan / Jito Lucas / Jito Conversation 1 Please provide a brief introduction to StakeNet 1.1 On-chain validator performance history

There will be a community-run validator conference directly before Breakpoint in Amsterdam. The goal is for the validator community to discuss the evolution of the network and reinforce the social layer. Date October 30, 2023 This is also registration day for Breakpoint 2023. Block 0 will start in the morning. Breakpoint registration begins at 1500 local time. Register for free here. Venue

What stakeholders vote?Tokenholders Validators How is voting power determined? Stake weight Other options? What is voted on? Treasury managementGrants

1 - DDoS mitigation Zanetsu | Shinobi Systems, Knoxtrades, 7Layer | Overclock Possibly include server providers? 2 - Minimum commission 7Layer | Overclock 3 - Increasing the Nakamoto Coefficient Chris | Chainflow, 7Layer | Overclock 4 - Forum discussion instead of Discord? VCTR | Melea, Max | H2O Nodes

Log Analysis Validator Educational Workshop hosted by Tim and Presented by Steve from the Solana Foundation Recording Notes Vote Account Management Vote Account Management Program (VAMP) Existing Solana Validator Monitoring and Related Tools

Solana cluster metrics here Validator Mission Control by Chainflow here and metrics definition here Solana monitoring best practices hereNon-user friendly list of watchtower alerts here Connect watchtower to PagerDuty instructions here Stakeconomy monitoring dashboard here

1 - Purpose Gather validators involved in restarting the network after the Feb 25, 2023 network restart and discuss root cause analysis, process improvements and suggested next steps, specific to the v1.14 upgrade and beyond. Further improve decentralization of decison making process by reducing dependence on core dev team and foundation, in both root cause analysis (yes/no?) and decision making (governance). 2 - Root Cause Analysis Official Solana release (WIP) Note: Pre-discussions indicate this section may be skipped in favor of relying on the "official" RCA. Additional Solana internal discussion Handling Common Solana Outages

Background Solana validators met to discuss ways to improve the network restart process, after the February 25, 2023 restart. This was a validator community organized discussion. Agenda and notes, including more details on the to-do's are here. This document captures To-Do's from that call. The intention is to execute actionable follow-up's to implement the suggestions that came out of the call. Follow-up, i.e. keeping things moving Community led validator calls will be held monthly to follow-up on these items and discuss other topics. Call agendas are available here. To-Do's To-do's fall into four sections

Adapted from Slot 179526403 restart instructions organized by Solana Compass. Step 1: Create a snapshot at slot 179526403 You need to stop your validator process if it is still running before creating your snapshot. Use the ledger tool to create a new snapshot at slot 179526403, replacing the two instances of <ledger path> to your actual ledger path: $ solana-ledger-tool --ledger <ledger path> create-snapshot 179526408 <ledger path> --hard-fork 179526408 NOTE: Add --snapshot-archive-path <PATH_TO_SNAPSHOTS> before “create-snapshot” if you have a separate snapshot dir, and --accounts <PATH_TO_ACCOUNTS> before –hard-fork if you have a separate accounts dir

February 25, 2023 Restart Background 1 - Post-mortem agenda 2 - Post-mortem notes 3 - Post-mortem consolidated To-Do's To-Do Output (WIP) A - Restart doc template (SolBlaze working on this)

Example Systemd File Notes: Replace [YOUR_Path] as appropriate. This assumes you've generated or otherwise have the appropriate snapshot in your ledger directory [Unit] Description=Solana Validator - For Sept 30 2022 Restart After=network.target StartLimitIntervalSec=0

1 - Network stalls at slot height 153139188 at approximately 21:42 UTC 2 - Network progresses slightly until slot height 153139220 at approximately 0032 UTC then stalls 3 - Network starts progressing again at approximately 0650 UTC Additional Detail