Vac weekly update

content/vac/updates/2024-04-08.md

@@ -20,8 +20,11 @@ draft: false
     - Mandatory for browser to browser 
 - `nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance`
   - Find and fix a (nasty) bug in both valueOr/withValue templates
-    - Discussion: https://discord.com/channels/864066763682218004/1224976245473808456
     - PR: https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1079
+- `nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-stagger-send`
+    - fix: remove explicit param from GossipSubParams constructor - https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1080
+    - Reviewing PRs
+    - Working on using gossipsub score to penalize peers when their non-prio queue reaches the limit. No PR yet, only local tests.
 
 ### vac:tke:
 - `admin/misc`
@@ -73,8 +76,12 @@ draft: false
     - continued fixing semaphore related issues 
 
 ### vac:sc::
+- `admin/misc`
+  - offsite
 
 ### vac:rfc:
+- `admin/misc`
+  - offsite
 
 ### vac:dr:
 - `gossipsub-improvements-paper`
@@ -82,5 +89,20 @@ draft: false
   - Looked into the possible changes required for message staggering (still a work in process) 
 
 ### vac:nes:
+- `state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc`
+  - Worked on the draft of the State Separation PDAGs doc (Moudy)
+  - Continued research about accumulators and mutator sets (Moudy)
+  - Met with Ugur for PDAGs + Accumulators (Moudy)
+  - Drafted list of components (Moudy)
+  - Finish the first draft of Mutator set in [Notion](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#c268e5d7c0004b3caba0f740fcf98954) (Ugur)
+  - Checked the page about MMRs and Mutator set that Moudy [notion page](https://www.notion.so/Illustrated-guide-to-Mutator-Sets-and-their-Application-to-Scalable-Privacy-17236ccd86994a03b8a4541ea0341a6d?pvs=4) (Moudy + Ugur)
+  - Started to write reports about the candidates of nullifiers for our state separation (Ugur)
+  - Update the all-in-one document for state separation and share with Moudy (Ugur + Moudy)
+- `proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems`
+   - checked out [Sirius code](https://github.com/snarkify/sirius) (Rostyslav)
+   - continue writing [LatticeFold writeup](https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257.pdf) (Rostyslav)
+- `proofsystems:vac:benchmarks`
+  - continued working on [Mangrove](https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/416) (Marvin)
+  - continued conducting server testing, got prelimenary results (Rostysla