### Promotion Request to rank I following the New Candidate Process explained [HERE](https://kusama.subsquare.io/post/6)

Including application below: 

Hi, I'm Sam Elamin. I have been working on substrate-based chains for close to 2 years now.

I am currently leading Imbue Network whose code is all open source.

Additionally, I founded the [Substrate Devs channel](https://t.me/substratedevs) on Telegram which is a great resource for educating new developers and getting them up to speed. This channel is bridged to Matrix and has many subject matter experts from Parity

I am a very passionate and keen advocate of interoperability and I feel I can add value in guiding that vision to fruition.

My **Contributions** to the core ecosystem are mostly around warp-syncing parachains:

- [paritytech/cumulus#1909](https://github.com/paritytech/cumulus/pull/1909)
- [paritytech/polkadot#6334](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/pull/6334)
- [paritytech/substrate#12761](https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/12761)
- [paritytech/zombienet#723](https://github.com/paritytech/zombienet/pull/723)
- [paritytech/zombienet#673](https://github.com/paritytech/zombienet/pull/673)

In **addition**, here is how I am contributing to the wider ecosystem:

- Education around substrate throughout the ecosystem
- Discussions on Forum
- Polkadot and substrate advocate who is very active in the community
- Runtime development for parachains

**Educational content**:

Activity on StackExchange answering and asking questions: [https://substrate.stackexchange.com/users/18/sam-elamin](https://substrate.stackexchange.com/users/18/sam-elamin)

I want to apply for rank 1. 

Address: `FXkcePu7sUd8TbfSasW4MTs5grMptqupFFGpkBKT7veoePm`


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