2024-09-17 Technical Fellowship OpenDev Call

Previous: 2024-07-16 Technical Fellowship OpenDev Call
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: AndrĂ© 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 - Fellowship Evidence Guidelines. - HackMD

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
4 Likes