Evidence-0002: Retention at Rank I

Member details

• Matrix username: @ankan:parity.io
• Polkadot address: 16aQgRVKfD22NehdzZD2VPoenP2hvx8RS2gUirfk6abiCies
• Current rank: 1
• Date of initial induction: 2023/11/11
• Date of last report: 2024/06/28
• Area(s) of Expertise/Interest: Staking

Reporting period

• Start date: 2024/06/28
• End date: 2024/09/30

Evidence

Continuing from my previous evidence, my primary focus has been to enable nomination pool members to participate in OpenGov. While this is already live on westend, it was pending audits before it can be enabled in production. Since then, I have addressed various improvements and fixes raised during the audit process. These changes are included in the polkadot-sdk/stable2409 release and once Polkadot's runtime is upgraded to this version, over 24M DOTs owned by members of the pool will be eligible to participate in voting.

PR list: #4822, #4804, #4981, #4998, #4999.

However, these changes have the unintended consequence that a direct staker will not be able to participate in the pool anymore. The root cause is that pallet-staking uses locks (similar to freeze in the deprecated Currency trait) instead of holds. This is largely due to legacy code, and pallet-staking should ideally use holds. I also have a working PR to address this issue, which is currently awaiting review and audit.

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