Argument-0005: Promotion to Rank 2

Report Date	2025/06/02
Submitted by	Pablo Andrés Dorado Suárez

Member Details

• Matrix Username: @pandres95:bloque.team
• Polkadot Address: 12gMhxHw8QjEwLQvnqsmMVY1z5gFa54vND74aMUbhhwN6mJR
• Current Rank: 1
• Date of Initial Induction: 2023/11/12
• Date of Last Report: 2025/04/29
• Areas of Expertise: Assets, Governance, Collectives, FRAME
• Areas of Interest: XCM, Bridges, Consensus

Reporting Period

• Start Date: 2024/05/19
• End Date: 2025/05/20

Argument

Since joining the Fellowship I have worked to make Polkadot easier to use and safer to upgrade. Below I explain the main things I built or helped ship over the past year and why they matter. All work lines up with the goals for Rank II in Fellowship Manifesto § 6.3.1.

Assets Tooling

I contributed to push the boundaries of Assets, onto a full set of pallets that let parachains lock, hold and slowly release any non-native asset without writing custom code:

• pallet-assets-freezer freezes balances on assets accounts. Enables support for assets vesting.
• pallet-assets-holder adds an on-chain escrow. It powers staking rewards and pay-as-you-go services.
• pallet-assets-vesting (in review) provides a linear staking mechanism for assets accounts. Especially good for teams, grants and crowd-loans.

Governance and Collective Tools

I co-authored (alongside @olanod) the Iterable Tracks, completing the proof-of-concept PSDK #2072, adjusting minor changes in the representing types, and later fixed a metadata bug PSDK #7671 so dApps show tracks correctly.

I also co-authored (with @xlc) RFC 117 – Unbrick Collective. This new collective would let the network restart a parachain that stops producing blocks. Discussion is paused hold until some conversations about changes derived from JAM are resolved, as well as the support for XCM cross-chain origins are ready.

Runtime Upgrades

I helped ship three Fellowship runtime bumps:

• stable2409-2
• stable2409-4
• stable2412-4

These upgrades moved chains to the SDK version stable2412. I also implemented a WFC that requested moving control of the Kusama Treasury “burn” to OpenGov runtimes #511.

Knowledge Sharing

I wrote “How to upgrade your runtime to the latest Polkadot-SDK (and not die trying)”. The guide walks parachain devs through common upgrade traps and fixes. I also review pull requests and discuss RFCs in Matrix frequently.

Reflection

This year I moved from single-issue fixes to owning larger parts of the code that many chains rely on. I work independently, ship code that passes expert review and share what I learn. Moving to Rank II will let me take on bigger tasks—especially in consensus research and FRAME dev-experience—while staying accountable to the Fellowship.

Voting Record

Ranks	Activity	Agreement	My voting record	Notes
I	90 %	N/A	N/A	No Rank-I votes this year; counts as 100 % activity.
II	80 %	N/A	—	—
III	70 %	100 %	—	—
IV	60 %	90 %	—	—
V	50 %	80 %	—	—
VI	40 %	70 %	—	—