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Origin commanded by any members of the Polkadot Fellowship (no Dan grade needed)

Origin commanded by rank 1 of the Polkadot Fellowship and with a success of 1

Origin commanded by rank 2 of the Polkadot Fellowship and with a success of 2

Origin commanded by Polkadot Fellows (3rd Dan fellows or greater)

Origin commanded by rank 4 of the Polkadot Fellowship and with a success of 4

Origin commanded by Polkadot Experts (5th Dan fellows or greater)

Origin commanded by rank 6 of the Polkadot Fellowship and with a success of 6

Origin commanded by Polkadot Masters (7th Dan fellows of greater)

Origin commanded by rank 8 of the Polkadot Fellowship and with a success of 8

Origin commanded by rank 9 of the Polkadot Fellowship and with a success of 9

**Andrei's Contributions to Polkadot**

- **Scalability/Performance**: Worked on plans to scale Polkadot to support more parachains and paravalidators.
- **Observability**: Started the Polkadot Introspector project to improve monitoring and debugging tools.
- **Integration Testing**: Contributed to Zombienet, a tool for testing Polkadot's integration and disputes.
- **Node Resilience**: Improved the handling of finality stalls and other issues to make nodes more stable.
- **Postmortem**: Investigated and wrote about a network issue that affected Polkadot, helping to fix it.
- **Community Impact**: Developed tools used by the community to monitor node status and performance.
- **Future Potential**: Recognized as a strong candidate for becoming a fellow in the future.

[5] Origin: FellowshipExperts