Vac 2023/09/04 §
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+vsu::P2P §
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+vac:p2p:nim-libp2p:vac:maintenance
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+- Becaming a Validator in the Nimbus Consensus client (95%)
+- IWANT replies can be bigger than the pubsub message limit (100%, on review) 887
+- Improve gossipsub DDoS resistance (98%) 920
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+vsu::Tokenomics §
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+vac:tke::codex:economic-analysis
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+- Presenting Filecoin findings to Codex team
+- Litepaper: assumptions on collateral
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+vac:tke::status:SNT-staking
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+- Highlighted multiple design requirements not met by SC implementation for SC team notion doc
+- Open questions w/ John, epoch duration
+- Staking governance proposal for when John returns Sep 12
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+vac:tke::nomos:economic-analysis
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+- Delegated staking specifications w/Marcin, update for privacy constraints
+- Bribery attacks analysis, Moh asked to followup early/mid Sep
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+vac:tke::waku:economic-analysis
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+- Formalized RLN thoughts shared w/ Aaryamann, will push for additional feedback once Martin returns
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+vsu::Distributed Systems Testing (DST) §
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+vac:dst:analysis:nomos:nomos-simulation-analysis
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+- Took over data generation on Tuesday
+- Found a bug in simulations, working around it
+- The comparison runs are now fully automated
+- got the first full set of comparison plots: everything appears to be explainable for a fixed probability
+- Tree runs now scale to 15k nodes
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+vac:dst:wakurtosis:vac:retrospective-rlog
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+- Gather info and wrote summary of why we decided to stop using Kurtosis.
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+vac:dst:10ksim:vac:10ksim-bandwidth-test
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+- Code diagrams + structurization
+- Chats with Ben (Codex)
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+vac:dst:wakurtosis:nomos:ci-integration_02
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+- (hold for now, since we drop Kurtosis; will continue in November once we have the new 10k simulator tool)
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+vac:dst:software-testing:waku:test-plans
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+vac:dst:software-testing:waku:test-automation-js-waku
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+- Made it possible to choose the nwaku version in the js waku github actions workflow by using workflow_dispatch inputs. PR Link
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+vsu:Smart Contracts (SC) §
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+vac:sc::vac:secureum-upskilling
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+- No progress; busy with
CommunityTokenDeployer contract
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+vac:sc::status:community-contracts-maintenance
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+- Gas optimizations in token contracts
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+- Custom errors vs require string messages PR
+- Usage of
immutable properties PR
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+vac:sc::status:community-contracts-deployer
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+- Implemented
CommunityTokenDeployer
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+- Added docs for commuity token deployer contract
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+vac:sc::status:governance-contract-mvp
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+- ERC2470 ressurection
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+- Updated to latest solidity
+- Implemented error checking for “already deployed” (saves gas in case of user error)
+- Implemented error checking for “successful deploy” (forces gas estimation to successful deploy scenario)
+- In progress upgrade on solidity compiler new outputs (from 0.5.11=>0.8.x)
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+- Research on delegation vs staking contract
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+vsu:Applied Cryptogarphy & ZK (ACZ) §
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+vac:acz:rlnp2p:waku:membership-management
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+- fixed makefile target for
rln-keystore-generator - 1960
+- log the membership index out upon registration in the
rln-keystore-generator - 1963
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+vac:acz:rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-enhancments
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+- rln was enabled by default in the Makefile - fixed - 1964
+- ordered pubsub validator execution - 1966
+- fixed deserialization of valid merkle roots - 1973
+- confirm that the fetched credential from the keystore is registered to the membership set - 1980
+- fixed makefile target for zerokit’s
librln.a - 1981
+- converted zero-based indexing to 1-based indexing on vacp2p/rln-contract - 28
+- downstreamed zero-based indexing to waku-org/waku-rln-contract - 8 -
+- deployed new version of the registry contract on sepolia -
0xc04937d502E0ae671cedFC2A0BCD6692055520f3
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+vac:acz:zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.4
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+- Merged a PR to deal with
message_id range check 210
+- researched
tree_size issue for the 0.4 release
+- researched
idCommitment/rateCommitment issue for the 0.4 release
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+vip::zkVM §
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+vac:zkvm::vac:research-existing-proof-systems
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+vac:zkvm::vac:proof-system-benchmarks
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+- Added an introductory section for Benchmark in zk-explorations repo: 10
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+vc::Deep Research §
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+vac:dr:gsub-scaling:vac:unstructured-p2p-improvements-survey
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+- Completed literature study. Covered article related to overlay design (single tier, multi-tier, hybrid overlays)
+- peer selection methodologies, rumor/gossiping protocols, push/pull based publishing approaches, message encoding, probablistic forwarding, overlay optimization, and peer heterogeneity/capacity based roles (super nodes and similar roles)
+- Still need to review 1-2 D-regular graph based approaches. Only selected articles are added in zotero (under vacp2p)
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+vac:dr:valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc
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+- Debugged various appraoches(tcp, gossip, tor). Triaged why attestations not working
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+vac:dr:valpriv:vac:tor-push-relwork
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+- completed related work all
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+vac:dr:consensus:nomos:carnot-paper
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+- Publishing the Carnot paper (Done) 2308.16016.pdf
+- Begin work on writing up Carnot’s specification in RFC format
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+vac:dr:consensus:nomos:carnot-bribery-article
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+vac:dr:consensus:nomos:carnot-vote-2-3rds-vote-aggregation
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+- Completing the initial design and work on presentation slides. The plan will be to present the initial design on September 6 research call
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+vc::RFC §
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+vac:rfc:rfc:status:port-status-specs
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+- Started porting
6/PAYLOAD to vac RFCs
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+- Work-in-progress PR is pending here
+- This RFC specifically needs a lot of work as it misses a lot of the current payload types
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+- Updated
61/STATUS-community-history-archives according to feedback comments and landed it
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+- started porting 16/keycard-usage to Vac (looking into status-go)
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