mrshiposha: promotion to Rank 1

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+# Evidence-0001: Promotion to Rank 1
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+| **Report Date** | 2024/12/23                                                                                  |
+| **Submitted by**| Daniel Shiposha                                                                             |
+
+
+## Member details
+
+- Matrix username: `@mrshiposha:matrix.org`
+- Polkadot address: `14aC2hfNZTX4sMHPh47MjGB4Vr4rVYHZgBid54vRKrZVBZQY`
+- Current rank: Candidate
+- Date of initial induction: 2024/12/11
+- Date of last report: N/A
+- Area(s) of Expertise/Interest: XCM, NFT
+
+
+## Reporting period
+
+- Start date: N/A
+- End date: N/A
+
+## Evidence
+
+I was made a Fellowship Candidate recently, thanks to Bryan Chen.
+
+I'm seeking to become a Rank I member. According to the Manifesto, I must provide evidence of a modest but substantial contribution to protocol development.
+I have been working in the Ecosystem since February 2022 as a Unique Network parachain team member and have made several contributions to Substrate and Polkadot.
+
+Here are the Substrate PRs:
+* https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/12594
+* https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/12222
+* https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/13410
+* https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/13349
+
+Since early 2023, my main focus of activity has been XCM. My task is to facilitate cross-chain NFT interoperability (where the term "non-fungible token" is understood in a broad sense as any "unique on-chain object").
+
+I authored an accepted XCM RFC about custom asset claimers (https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/xcm-format/blob/master/proposals/0037-custom-asset-claimer.md),
+proposed another one about XCM Asset Metadata (https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/RFCs/pull/125) which is currently in the review process,
+reported XCM-related issues (https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/5878, https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/4073, https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/4841, https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/xcm-format/pull/55#discussion_r1617630672), participated in XCM-related discussions (primarily concerning fee estimation, see the on-going one an example: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/6126).
+
+Also, I'm trying to introduce general and granular interfaces for NFT solutions (whatever the definition of a "unique object" is used within it) so they can be used across different runtime modules, including facilitating the creation of XCM NFT asset transactors. See the motivation of this PR: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/5620 and its supposed-to-be-follow-up: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/4300.
+
+Besides the code, I was a speaker on Sub0 2023 in Lisbon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DAHuWUvbwI) and Sub0 Asia 2024 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmLWjiujNAg) discussing possible NFT interactions between chains via XCM.
+
+## Voting record
+
+None, since I am a candidate.
+