Argument-0000: Retention at Rank 5

Report Date	(2025/10/27)
Submitted by	1eTPAR2TuqLyidmPT9rMmuycHVm9s9czu78sePqg2KHMDrE

Member details

• Matrix username: @kianenigma
• Polkadot address: 1eTPAR2TuqLyidmPT9rMmuycHVm9s9czu78sePqg2KHMDrE
• Current rank: 5
• Date of initial induction: seeding
• Date of last report: 10/05/2025
• Area(s) of Expertise/Interest:
  • FRAME
  • Staking / NPoS
  • JAM
• Status: Active

Reporting period

• Start date: 2025/05/10
• End date: 2025/11/31

Argument

My work on Polkadot has continued since promotion to Rank V primarily around the Hub migration and related changes to the staking system. Through this project, I am taking a leading role again in the staking system and ensuring the system works flawlessly in AssetHubs, and addressing issues that are raised by validators and nominators in support chats.

Engineering Efforts

More specifically, since the last reporting period, I have:

• Most importantly, make Polkadot's future staking system bullet-proof by:
  • implementing a more resilient VMP messaging scheme
  • Moving all operations outside of on_initialize to on_poll
  • Provided and signed-off on the final configurations of the staking system in Kusama and Polkadot
  • Thanks to reports from validators, identified and hot-fixed to (so far) only bug that was introduced as a part of Kusama AHM
• Secondly, on the overall testing of AHM, I have contributed by providing a clear goal and mentoring others towards it, making AHM Dryruns reproducible and debug-able, consequently enabling other fellowship members to verify the process.
• Last but not least, I am actively reviewing and planning around making sure the following community approved initiatives are on the right track to be enacted right after AHM:
  • New issuance model
  • New flexible unbonding queue

Education and Publication

While my side-activities has been on the decline due to the intense workload of AHM, some work is being done there as usual.

• Participated as a JAM lecturer in PBA6 Bali
• A number of new talks given and blog post published, all visible and dated in my website
• I am in the process of distilling all of my knowledge about the Web3 technologies as a whole (and not just Polkadot) in a long format blog post, which I expect to finish by end of the year.

Voting record

Provide your voting record in relation to required thresholds for your rank.

Ranks	Activity thresholds	Agreement thresholds	Member's voting activities	Comments
V	50%	80%	90%+ Activity with 100% agreement	My participation rate has been more than 90% in the last reporting period