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The validator community discusses a pending feature activation related to splitting stake accounts, a recent outage on Testnet, upcoming validator educational workshops and the timely vote credits (SIMD33) proposal for validator governance.
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IMPORTANT LINKS
Feature Gate Rent-Exempt Split Recipients: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/issues/33300
Feature Gate Schedule: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/wiki/Feature-Gate-Activation-Schedule#current-schedule
Fix for Testnet Outage: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/35283
Recent Educational Workshop - Failure Cases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XUXdxdHCK8&list=PLilwLeBwGuK6jKrmn7KOkxRxS9tvbRa5p&index=11
Eductaional Workshop Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLilwLeBwGuK6jKrmn7KOkxRxS9tvbRa5p
Timely Vote Credits SIMD 33: https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/blob/main/proposals/0033-timely-vote-credits.md
Zantetsu's Summary of Timely Vote Credits Tests: https://hackmd.io/@Zantetsu/rkHZeFq36
Timely Vote Credits Proposal in Solana Staking Alliance Discord: https://discord.com/channels/1030192322769596496/1032397883070238721/1212151490823848058

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
00:00 Intro and Agenda
00:44 Community Validator Discussion Schedule Change
05:29 Validator Updates Mainnet-Beta
06:43 Rent Exempt Split Recipients Feature Activation
08:27 Recap of Testnet Outage
18:05 Validator Educational Workshops
19:22 Documentation for a cold cloud backup
23:11 Timely Vote Credits Discussion

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Solana Community Validator Discussion - February 29 2024