Vac weekly update

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+title: "2024-02-12 Vac weekly"
+tags:
+  - "vac-updates"
+date: 2024-02-12
+lastmod: 2024-02-12
+draft: false
+---
+
+## Vac 2024/02/12
+
+### vac:p2p:
+- `nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport`
+    - Cleaning / commenting
+    - Implementing the client side of SCTP
+    - Implementing the closing part of SCTP / DataChannel
+- `nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-stagger-send`
+    - Making it ready to be merged - https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/1015 (feat: message prioritization with immediate peer-published dispatch and queuing for other msgs)
+- `nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance`
+    - improvement: enhanced checkExpiring macro with custom timeout - https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/1023
+    - Log `checkExpiring` failure
+        - [PR](https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/1018)
+            - Merged
+    - Added suggestions to building documentation
+        - [PR](https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/1021)
+    - Gathered all dependencies modifications in the same PR
+        - [PR](https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/1020)
+
+### vac:tke:
+- `nomos:economic-analysis`
+  - tested a new data layout for the PoS-GPU code (to allow a large number of blocks per epoch);
+  - implemented a CPU-only code that outperformed the GPU (thanks to a trick given by David and Alexander);
+  - ran simulations about wealth concentration and observed leader election on Cryptarchia.
+- `codex:economic-analysis`
+  - reviewed comparables tokenomics (Filecoin);
+  - reviewed the state of CDX token, inc. insurance model.
+- `waku:economic-analysis`
+  - reviewed Martin's work on RLN pricing
+  - 2x Waku RLN calls (Tokenomics, L2 for RLN) and follow-ups
+- `status:SNT-staking`
+  - continuing work on Status DeFi analysis
+  - continuing work on Status staking contract
+
+### vac:dst:
+- `eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test`
+    - Talk again with p2p team about versioning
+    - Done simulations for Yamux
+    - Re-do simulations without using Wireguard. Packet loss is the same if not even higher (?)
+    - Plan how to structure the 10k tool framework
+    - Optimized publisher and added a debug flag to get DNS resolve times. 
+    - Briefly ran a full 10K scale simulation, as well as other simulations at 7.5K, 8K, 5K and 0.1K
+    - Scaled metrics up by sharding it then adding Thanos (via `bitnami` charts) Query and Thanos Query Frontend to aggregate the metrics
+    - Dealing with various scaling issues as they come up
+    - Added latency delay to pods, allowing us to do arbitrary amounts of latency in Waku nodes
+
+### vac:qa:
+- `waku:interop-testing`
+  - RLN registration [support and tests](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/16)(@Roman + @Florin)
+  - Automatically notify nwaku developes when nightly interop tests [fail](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/15)(@Florin)
+- `waku:test-automation-js-waku`
+    - Connection and peer management [new tests and refactoring](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1836)(@Florin)
+- `waku:test-automation-nwaku`
+  - Lighpush [fixes](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2269)(@Alex)
+    - Peer Exchange tests(@Alex)
+  - Update QA milestones(@Florin)
+
+### vac:acz:
+- `rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-v2` 
+    - use rln-v2 in registration and membership insertion mechanism: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2392
+    - rln-v2 nonce manager: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2415
+- `secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat`
+    - Keep working in the updates of the RFC.
+    - Start writing the blog article about the SMP, with the use cases and the main features in mind.
+    - Creation of an Overleaf project on secure channel setup with Ethereum.
+    - Check two SoK papers for comparison security mechanism; [paper1](https://teamusec.de/pdf/conf-sp-UngerDBFPG015.pdf) [paper2](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3558482.3581773)
+    - Study the security mechanisms of dm3, Tor Messenger and Briar. 
+    - Start an internal report comparing different messaging protocols.
+- `zerokit:vac:maintenance`
+    - researched this issue https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/issues/21
+- `misc`
+    - Opened PRs to implement bitand & shr in circom-witness-rs: https://github.com/philsippl/circom-witness-rs/pull/14 & https://github.com/philsippl/circom-witness-rs/pull/13
+
+### vac:sc::
+
+### vac:rfc:
+- `misc`
+    - Worked waku/specs repo - https://github.com/waku-org/specs/pull/1
+    - Worked on vac rfc repo - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index
+
+### vac:dr:
+- `valpriv:vac:val-priv-net`
+  - Comparing mixnet Nym to figure out new design/proposal
+  - Reviewing Nym paper and design
+
+### vac:nes:
+- `state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc`
+    - Researched the Transaction Directed Acyclic Graph (TDAG) framework to aggregate in SE and DE and produced a [documentation](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#960d3e31c9da4e3b8b2f316801763a65) about it (Moudy)
+    - Started reading about the Privacy Directed Acyclic Graph (PDAG) framework (Moudy)
+    - Made progress on the integration of Cryptographic primitives in SE and DE (Ugur)
+    - Made progress on adress hiding and signature verification [document](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#9ab4ba4d92914ba0a5f66235446de5d1) (Marvin)
+    - Started producing notes about Field Merkle Trees (Marvin)
+    - Started creating the one-tier low-level framework for SE and DE kernel circuits by adding public and private data (Ugur)
+- `proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems`
+    - Continued looking at [Reverie whitepaper](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1888.pdf) and [Binius implementation](https://github.com/recmo/binius) (Rostyslav)
+- `proofsystems:vac:benchmarks`
+    - Fixed PR#24 comments and merged Arecibo benchmark implementation(Rostyslav)
+