| Report Date | Date of submission 2025/02/03 |
| Submitted by | George Pisaltu |
@george.pisaltu:parity.io128pmEUBSGjGeXZXNaAmomAJgVn77L74YT7Zdjd3fP63HWNP12024/08/162024/11/14System Parachains, FRAMEDuring the previous reporting period, I was focused on delivering TransactionExtension to
polkadot-sdk. I continued to build on that effort this reporting period, starting with a forum
post which aimed to raise
awareness of this new feature and the new possibilities it enables. Afterwards, I started
integrating the changes into the Proof of Personhood pallets to enable truly free transactions for
proven people. After it is released on the Polkadot People chain, this will be the first use case of
the free transaction model in the Polkadot ecosystem, which should serve as a blueprint for others
to use TransactionExtensions for their own use cases.
Following up on the Proof of Personhood work, I continued my work developing the pallets which will support DIM1, as announced last year at the Web3 Summit, which will soon be ready for audit and then will become public and hopefully make their way into a Polkadot People chain runtime upgrade. I contributed to upgrading and stabilizing the Bulletin chain runtime in order to provide a stable test environment for the teams developing the Citizenship app.
My other main focus this reporting period has been the collator selection pallet. Notably, I addressed a loophole in the permissionless collator auction mechanism which allowed collators to outbid someone and replace them in the candidate list, and then they would immediately deregister and reregister back with a lower bond at the session boundary. Furthermore, to address the growing problem of invulnerable collator slots being more and more in demand, I proposed a two round election mechanism for invulnerables, implemented in the collator selection pallet, which would allow permissionless collators to periodically challenge existing invulnerables in a referendum. This proposal aims to break down some of the innate barriers to entering the invulnerable collator set, especially when the set is saturated.
| Ranks | Activity thresholds | Agreement thresholds | Member's voting activities | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | 90% | N/A | I have voted on 0 out of 0 referenda in which I was eligible to vote (i.e 0 % voting activity). | There were no referenda during the current period in which I was allowed to vote. I target to raise it to 90% at least for the next reporting period |
| II | 80% | N/A | ||
| III | 70% | 100% | ||
| IV | 60% | 90% | ||
| V | 50% | 80% | ||
| VI | 40% | 70% |
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