# Argument-0000: Retention at Rank 5 
| **Report Date**  | 2026/03/29 |
| ---------------- | ---------- |
| **Submitted by** | kianenigma |

## Member details
- Matrix username: @kianenigma
- Polkadot address: `1eTPAR2TuqLyidmPT9rMmuycHVm9s9czu78sePqg2KHMDrE`
- Current rank: 5
- Date of initial induction: seeding
- Date of last report: [2025/10/27](https://collectives.subsquare.io/fellowship/referenda/424?tab=metadata)
- 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](https://x.com/paritytech/status/2008880798968246421?s=20) 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](https://collectives.subsquare.io/user/1eTPAR2TuqLyidmPT9rMmuycHVm9s9czu78sePqg2KHMDrE/fellowship), and has been consistently about 95% in the last year.