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: 2026/03/31
• Area(s) of Expertise/Interest:
  • FRAME
  • Staking / NPoS / PoP
  • JAM

Reporting period

• Start date: 2026/03/29
• End date: 2026/09/29

Argument

Q2 and Q3 and 2026 mostly revolved around 3 groups of work for me:

• Continued work around areas of expertise that are close to me: Review of any DAP/Staking related work.
• A temporary venture in Proof of Personhood, through which I led the team working on related technologies and guided them towards the first integration of PoP pallets in the Polkadot runtime, including multiple follow-up works.
• JAM examination interviews.

For the future, I plan to work closely with other colleagues for a number of outcomes:

• Further improving Polkadot economics, by reducing the ongoing cost of the protocol, through DAP mechanisms and adjustments to the validator set, and the coretime market, and metanode.
• Supervising the completion of the price oracle of the newly launched dotUSD
• Given my familiarity with PoP, ensuring the infrastructure of this system is safely and correctly deployed on Polkadot and usably by the Polkadot App, or other alternatives.

Salary

In-line with the new directive of the fellowship, I have stopped collecting my fellowship salary and continue to do so unless if a change of rules happens, as I am employed full time by Parity Technologies.

Voting record

My voting participation rate can be seen in this page, and has been consistently about 95% in previous reporting periods.