# Argument-0000: Retention at Rank 5 
| **Report Date**  | 2026/10/13 |
| ---------------- | ---------- |
| **Submitted by** | kianenigma |

## Member details
- Matrix username: @kianenigma
- Polkadot address: `1eTPAR2TuqLyidmPT9rMmuycHVm9s9czu78sePqg2KHMDrE`
- Current rank: 5
- Date of initial induction: seeding
- Date of last report: [2026/03/31](https://collectives.subsquare.io/fellowship/referenda/510)
- 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](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/metanode-early-thinking-on-consolidating-node-services/18689). 
* 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](https://collectives.subsquare.io/user/1eTPAR2TuqLyidmPT9rMmuycHVm9s9czu78sePqg2KHMDrE/fellowship), and has been consistently about 95% in previous reporting periods.