Argument-0008: Retention at Rank 2

Member details

• Matrix username: @george.pisaltu:parity.io
• Polkadot address: 128pmEUBSGjGeXZXNaAmomAJgVn77L74YT7Zdjd3fP63HWNP
• Current rank: 2
• Date of initial induction: 2024/08/16
• Date of last report: 2025/10/16
• Area(s) of Expertise/Interest: Proof of Personhood, System Parachains, FRAME

Reporting period

• Start date: 2025/10/16
• End date: 2026/01/23

Argument

This reporting period I have continued leading the Proof of Personhood effort as we work towards the release planned for May this year. I created the roadmap for this release and have been actively contributing to the design of all items on it.

The big ticket items, all currently under development, in our roadmap for our upcoming release includes a privacy preserving payment system, personal alias authentication for people and lite-people on AssetHub, and abstracting the ring management logic in the people pallet to a generic members pallet. I am actively implementing this last item, the member set as a service, which will provide reusable ring-based anonymous membership functionality. The pallet manages multiple ring collections for different owners, each with its own configuration in terms of onboarding size, membership suspension and manual ring deletion while maintaining the automated maintenance performed by the people pallet in hooks like on_idle and on_poll.

I created the resources pallet, which is responsible for managing the free allowance of resources awarded to people and lite-people. This includes allocations for statement store usage and bulletin storage. The pallet provides the infrastructure for recognized individuals to benefit from their personhood status through tangible resource allowances. The people-lite pallet and the resources pallet were deployed to Paseo on a custom "Paseo People Lite" chain. This deployment enabled the live demo of the Polkadot app chat and free transfers at sub0 in November 2025.

The theme of the Proof of Personhood project not being public continues until we launch. However, we are about to open source more material with a restricted feature set release on Paseo again, this time to give people building products a chance to interact with the new primitives.

I hope this argument demonstrates my continued contributions to the Polkadot ecosystem and justifies my retention at rank 2 in the Fellowship.

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