# 2025-08-19 Technical Fellowship OpenDev Call

**URL:** <https://forum.polkadot.network/t/2025-08-19-technical-fellowship-opendev-call/15024>\
**Category:** Tech Talk\
**Tags:** fellowship\
**Created:** [September 22, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/2025-08-19-technical-fellowship-opendev-call/15024 "2025-09-22T16:01:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![alice\_und\_bob](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.polkadot.network/alice_und_bob/32/10098_2.png) [@alice\_und\_bob](https://forum.polkadot.network/u/alice_und_bob)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/2025-08-19-technical-fellowship-opendev-call/15024/1 "2025-09-22T16:01:13Z")

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Previous: [Link](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/2025-07-15-technical-fellowship-opendev-call/14027)

[Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1FZl_Z0V-E)

# Kian (Rank 5)

- AH Migration:

- engaged with Blockdeep RFC 97 (flexible unbonding) impl. Their contract is coming to an end. Me and Ankan have reviewed their work high level. Bulk of the work is done. Plan to deliver as soon as migration is complete. Towards end of the year

# Oliver (Rank 3)

- working on Paseo. AH migration. finalizing runtime.

- working on JAM node: at 0.6.7 now

# Adrian (Rank 3)

- working on AH migration, on the Fellowship repo, upgrading dependencies to 2506, benchmarking for weights

- Snowbridge V2

# Andrei (Rank 3)

- Elastic Scaling

- Block Confidence

# Dom (Rank 1)

- backstory: engineer by trade, game dev for a while, discovered Polkadot 2 years ago

- working on: crowdsourcing contributions to decision deposits RFC 151

- next: voting while delegating

# Seyed (Rank 1)

- working on Proof of Posession

had to change Bastis code

# Daniel Shiposha (Rank 1)

working on XCM NFT PR.

- new nft traits for pallet nfts. we already had them for pallet uniques.

- also preparing NFT derivatives

- when NFT derivatives in AH Westend, XCM NFTs will be ready to go forward

# Cisco (Rank 1)

- XCM in smart contracts. Precompile.

- there is an issue with transfer assets extrinsic: tries to find out who is the reserve for DOT. but the reserve will change with the migration. we made it throw an error if you try to use it with DOT as an reserve transfer.

- rank 2 promotion is up

- first batch of new XCM docs is live - [https://docs.polkadot.com/develop/interoperability/intro-to-xcm/](https://docs.polkadot.com/develop/interoperability/intro-to-xcm/)

- will be instructor at next PBA campus and preparing content

# Clara (Rank 1)

- Snowbridge v2 → merged and be ready for 1.7

- besides that been working on off-chain infra (pools?), updating relayers and UI, hope to have SDKs ready by the time we go live

- SnowbridgeV2 is on Westend, not on Paseo yet, need to add pallets this week

- AH upgrade from XCM v4 to v5

- next up: EVM L2s

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**Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/2025-08-19-technical-fellowship-opendev-call/15024/2 "2026-03-16T23:19:49Z")

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The Kusamarian has removed the video.

A mirrored version can be found on the official Polkadot account here:

[![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/polkadot2/original/2X/f/fd3ab421f97094c62995a4ec3e729c19e86e1c49.jpeg "OpenDev Core Polkadot Call - August 2025") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdZZoZFXTWg)