Vac weekly

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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
+