Hello Bifrost Fellowship!
I’d like to apply to membership of the Fellowship. I can give input to the Technical and Infrastructure Sub-Fellowships, but my passion projects currently align best with the Strategy Sub-Fellowship because I want to further develop Bifrost products and integrate them into Polkadot DeFi applications.
I have 19 years experience in electrical engineering and embedded software, designing products in the medical and power electronics industries. Although I started with C++, for the past decade I’ve had a passion for DevOps, using Python to automate the automated build, verification, and documentation for our embedded devices. I manage a team of 20 and teach people how to use Jira, git, and Jenkins.
I first discovered Bitcoin in 2013 while living abroad and loved that you could use cryptography to prove asset ownership and reduce costs for international transfers. I've been involved in the Polkadot ecosystem since 2021. As a member of ChaosDAO, I organized investment opportunities such as a MOVR collator and a GLMR collator. I became a DAOist and shaped our ChaosDAO policy to have more democratic voting internally as well as creating a public voting proxy account to represent our collective voice on-chain which people now delegate to. I also contributed to the Python-based subscrape tool, which can extract substrate and EVM-based chain transactions for an account of given filter criteria.
I learned from the pros how to run servers and now run Interlay vaults and collators on Mangata, Basilisk, HydraDX.
Occasionally I'm called on to help lead initiatives and this spring the Interlay team reached out to get community help creating governance proposals. I've now created about 20 governance discussions/proposals on Interlay, Bifrost, Astar, Centrifuge, HydraDX, Phala, and Polkadot. I've learned how to craft XCM calls to help parachain governance control their funds on other chains and how to use Chopsticks to test each proposal to ensure successful execution. My recent DeFi passions have been opening up money markets on Interlay and encouraging parachains to use some of their treasury funds as "Protocol Owned Liquidity" in the HydraDX Omnipool.
batch any transactions or else it would fail. With this proposal I’m pushing the limits showing that as long as you have DOT in your child acct you can mass open channels within a single referendum, to accelerate how quickly we can integrate chains and cross-register assets.As a heavy user of Chopsticks, I'm contributing fixes such as separate Bifrost Kusama vs Polkadot chain configs: https://github.com/AcalaNetwork/chopsticks/pull/792
I'm a big believer in VDOT and Bifrost’s LST solutions. I think the Bifrost stats page using Grafana is pretty cool. My current goals for Bifrost are to get more of Bifrost's vTokens listed on Hydration and Interlay's money markets. I could also see Bifrost's Loop Stake being expanded to encompass non-VToken money markets as another Polkadot generic lending platform. Bifrost should update runtime to 1.25.0 and integrate the new CheckMetadataHash extension to support the Ledger Generic App, and perhaps integrate Hyperbridge's pallet-ismp and pallet-hyperbridge in order to utilize another bridge to other ecosystems. Beyond that, I’m sure that we’ll come up with further projects to develop Bifrost and integrate its products into the overall crypto ecosystem.
Hydration: https://hydration.subscan.io/account/7K3iNyXPEC1Er9dahpaxNMH84YpqQ6rDb8eK4zaZ9MzsCvYp
Interlay: https://interlay.subscan.io/account/wd8x3ESVHmYM42D1PWo9bwacVvLEgZZdcvRQrZoqPH88HFBr3
email: spazcoin@gmail.com
X/Twitter: https://x.com/spazvt
Discord: spazcoin (preferred)
Telegram: spazco1n
GitHub: https://github.com/spazcoin
Bifrost Fellowship is a group of people who work together to develop Bifrost products and integrate them into Polkadot DeFi applications. A person named spazcoin wants to join the Fellowship and work with the Strategy Sub-Fellowship. They have 19 years of experience in electrical engineering and embedded software. They have experience in running servers and creating governance proposals. They have contributed to the Python-based tool called subscrape. They have created many governance proposals related to Bifrost, Interlay, Astar, Centrifuge, HydraDX, Phala, and Polkadot. They have a vision for Bifrost to get more of Bifrost's vTokens listed on Hydration and Interlay's money markets. They also want to expand Bifrost's Loop Stake to encompass non-VToken money markets.