# Argument-0004: Retention at Rank I

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| **Report Date**  | 2025/04/29                 |
| **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](https://collectives.subsquare.io/fellowship/referenda/38)
- **Date of Last Report**: [2025/02/01](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/Evaluations/blob/main/evidence/pandres95/00003-2025-01-retain-rank-1.md)
- **Areas of Expertise**: Assets, Governance, Collectives, FRAME
- **Areas of Interest**: XCM, Bridges, Consensus

## Reporting Period

- **Start Date**: 2025/02/01
- **End Date**: 2025/04/28

## Argument for Retention

Consistent with the evaluative standards defined for Rank I in the [Fellowship Manifesto](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/manifesto/blob/0c3df46d76625980b8b48742cb86f4d8fa6dda8d/manifesto.pdf), this Argument synthesizes my technical contributions over the reporting period, structured around core areas of protocol-level expertise and ecosystem-level stewardship.

This quarter, I continued development of [`pallet-assets-vesting`](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/7404), a fungibles-compatible module for linear, time-based asset vesting. I progressed the implementation to the in-review phase and began addressing feedback to make it production-ready for system chains.

I also resolved a critical issue in the Iterable Tracks governance feature ([PSDK #7671](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/7671)), which affected how constant values were exposed to client applications like Polkadot.js and Nova Wallet. This fix restored expected behavior across tooling layers and ensured governance elements rendered correctly.

Finally, I authored and coordinated the inclusion of [`stable2412-4`](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/pull/606), a runtime upgrade aligned with the 1.5.0 Release. This required coordination with the proposer of the release and ensured timely integration through Fellowship governance.

## Reflection and Forward Trajectory

This submission concludes my first year within the Fellowship. Over the course of the past twelve months, I have methodically deepened my involvement across the runtime, governance, and protocol lifecycle domains. My work has advanced from feature authoring to systematic maintenance, and from localized improvements to ecosystem-aware coordination.

This maturation has sharpened my alignment with the Fellowship's mission to uphold and advance protocol expertise critical to Polkadot’s technical continuity. In future quarters, I intend to expand into lower layers of the protocol, particularly consensus protocol development and FRAME-level ergonomics, while continuing to support cross-domain primitives such as XCM and system collectives.

## Voting Record

| Ranks | Activity thresholds | Agreement thresholds | Member's voting activities | Comments                                                 |
| ----- | ------------------- | -------------------- | -------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| I     | 90%                 | N/A                  | N/A                        | No open votes on the `Members` track during this period. |
| II    | 80%                 | N/A                  |                            |                                                          |
| III   | 70%                 | 100%                 |                            |                                                          |
| IV    | 60%                 | 90%                  |                            |                                                          |
| V     | 50%                 | 80%                  |                            |                                                          |
| VI    | 40%                 | 70%                  |                            |                                                          |