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2024-09-17 Technical Fellowship OpenDev Call

Previous: https://forum.polkadot.network/t/2024-07-16-technical-fellowship-opendev-call/9512 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAMo6wMOuak

Fellowship​

New Fellowship Dashboard - New URL - https://polkadot-fellows.xyz/

New Fellowship Statistics Page by SubSquare

Members​

List

  • Approved
    • Promote Rank 1: Andrei Eres, Alexandru Gheorghe, George,
    • Retain Rank 1: Alin Dima, emalkaleci, Liam, s0me0ne-unk0wn, clangenb, timwu20, serban300, dharjeezy, bkontur, Cisco, Pablo Dorado, gupnik
    • Retain Rank 2: sandreim, Adrian Catangiu., muharem, davxy, skundert
    • Retain Rank 3: Alex
    • Retain Rank 4: Andre
  • Retain Rank 5: André Silva
  • Ongoing
    • Retain Rank 1: tdimitrov
    • Retain Rank 2: Joe
    • Retain Rank 6: bkchr
  • Rejected
  • New Evaluations repo + manual
    • Oliver: previously it was just a list of links. Now we have a more human-focused evaluation. No big change, just better to understand.
  • FYI: Gavin’s evidence criteria - https://hackmd.io/@polkadot/guidelines

Whitelistings​

Approved

Fellowship Treasury​

RFCs​

Other Fellowship Issues​

Roadmap​

New Runtime Release Guidelines​

What’s next for Polkadot Runtime?​

  • Tommi: 1.4?
  • Oliver: upgrade to stable2409, probably to stable2407 first
  • Shawn: Merklized Distribution of Assets
    • rather than minting for every individual user, submit a Merkle root that is generated offline
    • e.g. for airdrops, DED airdrop had to distribute ED to every individual account
    • with merklized distribution, every user would have to claim individually
  • Kian:
    • PR to make Inflation arguments parameterizable merged soon hopefully
  • Adrian: Bridge
    • Polkadot-Kusama
      • transfer any asset
      • exposure to Snowbridge assets on Kusama
    • Snowbridge:
      • “exporting” Polkadot-native assets to Ethereum
        • already built, still to be integrated into the runtime
      • then: XCMv5
      • Snowbridge V2 (needs XCMv5)
        • lower fees
        • allow unordered messages
        • improve UX: 1 click end-to-end, pay with ETH everywhere
  • Seyed
    • writing an RFC to make validators sign BLS (?) for BEEFY to make the bridge more efficient.

Coretime​

  • Bulk Coretime
    • Robert K: Auto-Renew is an upcoming feature to place DOT in an account and renew bulk coretime
    • Donal: There is a market for secondary markets
  • On-Demand
    • Robert K:
      • about to launch on Polkadot
      • we de-prioritized super-easy integration for teams. The basic offer is there, but on-demand is so cheap that there won’t be a big demand for on-demand atm
      • basic functionality available
    • Donal: But no cores made available yet

Elastic Scaling​

  • Robert K: MVP live on Testnets, not yet on Kusama

Plaza (Joe)​

  • Joe
    • 3 projects
      • EVM compatibility
      • moving staking, governance, and balances to AssetHub
      • changing the APIs, view functions
    • will report more in the coming weeks
  • Shawn: what can be done to add more ppl to the project?
  • Joe: refactor assets, block number / time relationships, implementing view functions, high level APIs so more devs can use it
  • Bast: putting abstractions in the runtime might not be a good idea
  • Joe: The 3 projects don’t depend on each other, people work on those are quite different, so no need to prioritize one over the other
  • Shawn: how many L3 and L4 can we add to the project? form open chat groups?
  • Joe: quite a few
  • Robert K: would be great to have wrapping library
  • Joe: yes, imagine you have the same asset on multiple chains. Would be good to query the balance of those. Kian and James on this.
  • Kian: tldr on view function - it nicely complements Plaza. We started talking about it a year ago. We would like to have a high-level spec of engaging with Polkaot and not this chain or that chain. Or at least give the consumer view functions.

Stabilizing Polkadot (Oliver)​

Total Issuance Fix (Oliver)​

Writeup

total balance shown on the RPC was different from the real issuance

KSM is off by 56

DOT is off by 21.6k

JAM​

  • some important changes to the GrayPaper → on the website
  • Final piece of functionality: audit accumulation
  • Getting work packages that want to use the data of previous work packages in a low latency fashion
  • Get Parachains in all situations, including async backing