- Sctp and Dtls client done: https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/5
- Adds a lot of comments some refactoring to improve (I hope) the readability https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/6
- Closing the streams/connections: starts to test and think about it to make it bulletproof
-`nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance`
- Investigating issues related to https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/1032
### vac:tke:
-`nomos:tdc-objectives`
- expanded the objectives & requirements part of the TDC (@Frederico)
-`codex:cdx`
- incorporated into Codex Litepaper all material about Codex on GitHub (@Frederico)
- reviewed the causal loop diagragam for Codex (@Frederico)
- reviewed the stock and flow diagram for Codex (@Frederico)
-`waku:rln-membership:`
- Prepare a summary of the RLN membership model including user journey mapping (@Martin)
- Review the pricing of Farcaster, etc. (@Martin)
-`waku:general-incentives`
- Follow up with general research into Waku strategy based on the IFT strategy call. (@Martin)
-`status:SNT-staking`
- Continue the review of the staking contract (@Martin)
- Understand the severity of precision loss (due to Solidity constraints) and resulting discrepancy between the contract logic and radCad simulations (@Martin)
- Assist the SC team in further checks and definition of testing scenarios (@Martin)
### vac:dst:
-`eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test`
- Work on plotting module in the Kubernetes framework
- Modified main yaml to add plotting options
- Created plotter class to group there all functionalities
- Structured plotter to be able to group several experiments in same plot in an automatic manner
- Lots of calls with Wings to test the lab, launch simulations, discuss about problems and so on.
- Deployed iBGP for Calico
- Which got the IP addresses wrong at first, fixed by editing Node annotations
- Later removed BGP due to numerous issues with it
- Numerous, numerous Kubernetes tests and improvements
- Tried Cilium briefly
- Switched from Cilium to Calico
- Reinstalled entire cluster as Calico transition broke things (due to CNI switch without reinstall being a bad idea)
- Scale testing revealed that Linux has limits per node that prevent us from scaling beyond about ~1400 waku nodes per physical host when running on bare metal
- Created a new architecture for running tests
- Hybrid between bare metal and virtualised Kubernetes
- Rook-Ceph (Storage) and Prometheus-Thanos (Metrics) stacks run on bare metal, as does all management
- The rest runs in a KubeVirt based deployment system.
- We deploy what we're calling "opal fragments" (fractions of the Opal Kubernetes cluster) - Kubernetes workers dedicated solely to running nwaku deployments.
- Can deploy 5000 nodes in <8minutes,withstablemeshformingaround25minutesintodeployment
- Experimented with various opal fragment deployments - 56x nodes seems to be the most stable configuration
- Much higher than this (especially with poor allocation of cores) causes instability in the CNI (Calico)
- Which causes monitoring issues as nodes drop out of Prometheus monitoring
- And can mess with the mesh
- Instability is lower with lower # of connections
- Debugging CoreDNS issues - believe we've found a bug in CoreDNS and its interactions with HeadlessServices, returning NXDOMAIN even for valid hostnames about 1 in 5.5 to 6 queries.
- Ran repeated simulations to get a stable simulation for testing.
- Built a new "accelerated bootstrap" mode for simulations
- Implement tests and simplify and [reduce code](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2487)
- Peer & Communication Management(@Alex)
### vac:acz:
-`rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-v2`
- improved testing for rln-v2 onchain mode: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2482
- improved testing for rln-v2 static/offchain mode: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2484 (pending review)
-`secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat`
- Finish the presentation for the Logos Research Call.
- Improve the research paper.
- Considering replacing MLS with another protocol.
- Add an overview on anonymity and SIWE integration in [notion.](https://www.notion.so/Overview-of-the-ERC-5564-Stealth-Addresses-ca3c16fbd9344d32933bf09791180f17?pvs=4)
- Study on hierarchical deterministic wallets for anonymous login.
- Study the openmls [crate](https://crates.io/crates/openmls) for demo implementation.
-`zerokit:vac:maintenance`
- taken a look on this issue https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/issues/47
-`admin/misc`
- assist with waku research paper
- stealth commitment protocol over waku PoC: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/24
- worked rfc process - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/8
- worked on pull request for rfc-index - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pulls
### vac:dr:
-`valpriv:vac:val-priv-net`
- Refined and working on https://docs.google.com/document/d/15X4vJTK_Hr3g3K01XF77R3KCqLI8LIm3/edit
-`valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc`
- Successfully merged , built the torpush while rebasing from stable nimbus.
-`valpriv:vac:tor-push-paper`
- Improved and revised the draft. like citing tor related attacks with relevance for tor push while making many other minor points and clarification https://www.overleaf.com/project/6499e467346d9f56b2971caa
- Created a notion page on findings on large message handling: https://www.notion.so/Performance-Evaluation-of-Different-Pull-Requests-for-Large-Message-Handling-4d47672820114732b9f248f6bf18946e
- Merged [PR-1027](https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/1027), [PR-1028](https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/1028) and used TxTime sorting on SendPeerList. Additionally used semaphors to limit simultaneous transmissions. Improves results in some cases and shows large fluctuations in other messages
- Configured shadow simulation for variable latency and bandwidths. Trying to build some automated scripts (requires adding edges among all peers, and adding all nodes with variable latency/bandwidth). NetworkX package in python can help writing network in gml format
### vac:nes:
-`state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc`
- Researched and discussed about monitoring issues and how to adapt solutions to our proposal (Moudy + Marvin)
- Researched and discussed about nullifeir problems and how to solve them (Moudy + Ugur)
- Studied untraceability and unlinkability features of PDAGs to create our version of PDAGs (Ugur)
- Stared working on reward mechanisms for monitoring (Marvin)
