Argument-0000: Retention at Rank 5

Member details

• Matrix username: @kianenigma
• Polkadot address: 1eTPAR2TuqLyidmPT9rMmuycHVm9s9czu78sePqg2KHMDrE
• Current rank: 5
• Date of initial induction: seeding
• Date of last report: 2025/10/27
• Area(s) of Expertise/Interest:
  • FRAME
  • Staking / NPoS
  • JAM

Reporting period

• Start date: 2025/10/27
• End date: 2026/03/29

Argument

Since the last reporting period, having successfully completed the daunting Asset-Hub Migration and, I have geared myself towards research and implementation of multiple initiatives in the new age of Polkadot:

• Staking and the Dynamic Allocation Pool
• Polkadot native stable-coin, and its oracle system

Most of these initiatives are in the research and prototyping stage, therefore there is little public work about them that I can share at this point. Similar to previous reporting periods, I am acting in a support/leadership role in many of these initiatives, and am benefiting from having great fellows/colleagues, the list of whim would be too long to name here.

Outside of core Polkadot engineering work:

• I will be teaching for ~3 days in the upcoming Polkadot Blockchain Academy in Lisbon
• I have finally finished and published my free online book about blockchain and Web3, perfectly matching the manifesto's requirement of:

at least one published long-form article about technology relevant to but not specifically concerning Polkadot.

Voting record

My voting participation rate can be seen in this page, and has been consistently about 95% in the last year.