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---
title: "2023-10-23 Vac weekly"
tags:
- "vac-updates"
date: 2023-10-23
lastmod: 2023-10-23
draft: false
---
### vac:p2p:
- `admin`
- restructure
- `nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance`
- Find a fix for https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2140
- PR: `Test: Remove workflow for Nim Devel from "Daily"` https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/968
- nim devel test will still be run daily, but in a separate CI workflow
- `nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport`
- Successfully compile the full stack and start debugging.
- `nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-ddos-mitigation`
- https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/965
- `nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance`
- Add arm64 support when running HP tests locally
- https://github.com/libp2p/test-plans/pull/311 and https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/pull/4687. (This is a blocker for: Add Hole Punching to libp2p test-plans - https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/issues)
### vac:tke:
- `vac:tke::codex:economic-analysis`
- Updating Codex "growth model" and migrating litepaper to notion w/ Codex feedback (@Matty)
- Providing fundraise (Matt Nemer) w/ high level summary of financials and token design (@Matty)
- `vac:tke::status:SNT-staking`
- Helping John with final preparation for website launch, setting up Snapshot space (@Martin)
- Ongoing w/ SC team for staking contract implementation (@Martin)
- Discussed "growth model" (economic projections) w/ John, Chandler, and finance, aligning w/ Chandlers model (@Matty)
- `vac:tke::nomos:economic-analysis`
- Finished drafting high level proposals on Private Addressing research, reviewing w/ Marcin (@Frederico)
- Returning to native delegated staking research, based on recent developments in ETH and Lido (@Fredico)
- `vac:tke::waku:economic-analysis`
- Joining Waku Reseach Sync calls going forward to stay up to date on progress w/ Sergei (@Martin)
- Reviewing Sergei's notes so far on waku-org/research, and completing followup requests from Aaryaman and Sergei
### vac:dst:
- `wakurtosis:vac:rlog`
- Pushed changes with new results (https://github.com/vacp2p/vac.dev/commit/c67ea09ac17a6049529983ef325ae4d9c6c24e2d)
- `analysis-shadow:waku:shadow-waku-relay-analysis`
- Investigating best approach for large scale (new wakunode2 with traffic vs external RPC calls)
- `eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test`
- Fix problem in multicloud-cluster:
- https://github.com/status-im/infra-misc/issues/184
- https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/discussions/8657
- Check Prometheus metrics
- `software-testing:waku:test-automation-js-waku`
- New tests:
- [Relay](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1649) - awaiting review
- Improvements:
- Test report dashboard. [PR](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1668) and [deployment](https://waku-org.github.io/allure-jswaku/5700/#) - awaiting review
- Issues found:
- Nwaku [regression](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2147) around store cursor
- JS-waku possible issue around duplicate messages
- `software-testing:waku:test-automation-nwaku`
- Issues
- Resubscription SEGFAULT
- Reinvestigated and found it was a test case error, a `futures` issue.
- Closed [Ticket](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2114)
- Publishing multiple messages in a row triggers the same SEGFAULT as when refreshing a subscription.
- Same as above
- Max message sizes don't match RFC
- Reinvesitgated because some sizes weren't correct.
- Opened [Ticket](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2146)
- After stopping and restarting a relay node, it can't reconnect with connectRelay.
- Reinvestigated because a comment by Aaryamann.
- Opened [Ticket](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2145)
- Began implementing Store tests.
- Got a working GDB for NIM with VSCode integration. Not great, but it's something.
- Cleaned up Filter and Relay tests, and added missing payload size tests.
- [PR](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2138
- `software-testing:waku:test-automation-go-waku`
- Wrote five tests - were added to the branch https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/tree/chore(filterV2)-test-updates
- Reported issue "Subscription with empty contentTopic should fail" https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/810
- Retested issues #804 and #810 - learned a lot from Prem Prathi
### vac:acz:
- `rlnp2p:waku:rln-doc-and-outreach`
- continued work on rlog, improvements
- progcrypto sync with pse, presentation work - https://hackmd.io/wS2MAfSvSK-tnxzcriah9A
- `admin/misc`
- supporting DST, working on waku relay segfault, resolved
- `secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat`
- Include some considerations on the extension to group chat revolving around asynchronous ratcheting trees.
- Start writing the raw version of the RFC.
- https://www.notion.so/WiP-Secure-Ethereum-Chat-f69ff155456c4fdeb719aba96fd7a
- `zerokit:vac:maintenance`
- prepared refactoring PR (https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/219)
### vac:sc::
- `status:community-curation-contracts`
- Adjusted deploy script to mint mock SNT token on local node (this was needed for testing purposes)
- PR: https://github.com/status-im/community-dapp/pull/80
- Fixed deployment script to ensure directory contracts are set in voting contracts
- https://github.com/status-im/community-dapp/pull/81
- Fixed deployment that ensures `Multicall2` is available on local nodes as well as references for production networks
- PR: https://github.com/status-im/community-dapp/pull/82
- `vac:sc::status:snt-staking-contract_02`
- Implement missing checks for staking lockup period
- PR: https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/39
### vac:nescience:
- `state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc`
- Researching techniques for state separation and how to integrate different models.
- Researched and [posted a document](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#d75a43599f3f45d6a838527a403d9c39) on Verkle tree.
- Began research on ring signatures ([DualRing](https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1213.pdf) and [DualDory](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1177)) (doc pending)
- `proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems`
- Published a new document about [Proof Creation and Verification](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#02b7fdf29dac4dc18b3f15b756c7da57)
- `proofsystems:vac:benchmarks`
- Started a draft for an article (overleaf)
- applied feedback for the Nova-Scotia PR
- Wrote the halo2 aggregation circuit (issues with testing, need more CPU power, will use DST server)
### vac:dr:
- `valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc`
- Scaled up execution of TEN multiple simultanesous torpush-validators with near zero attestation misses
- Gathering measurements from other fleet nodes (blocked at)
- `valpriv:vac:tor-push-paper`
- Added more graphs, completed abstract, comparisons in the paper.
- Still reviewing new paper to incorporate https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/on-the-anonymity-guarantees-of-anonymous-proof-of-stake-protocols
- `gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation`
- Modified large message handling mechanism (outlined below) for GossipSub.
- Now we send large message to randomly selected (dlow-1) peers.
- Remaining peers get idontwant message
- Missed out nodes use iwant message to pull the missing large message
- Approximately 20-25% overall message reduction achieved and 1/2 RTT latency increased for approximately 5% nodes
- `gsub-scaling:vac:unstructured-p2p-improvements-survey`
- Started following discussions for current gossipsub improvement direcetions
- Writing the pseudocode and addressed comments from Nomos team (https://github.com/logos-co/nomos-specs/blob/Carnot-vote-aggregation/carnot/carnot-vote-aggregation.py).
- Responded to questions raised in the high level protocol document (https://www.notion.so/High-Level-Algorithm-6535ac0363df4629ad2c40dff4bc62cd) by the nomos team.
### vac:rfc:
- `status:port-status-specs`
- waku usage rfc - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/627