diff --git a/content/vac/updates/2024-09-16.md b/content/vac/updates/2024-09-16.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..09965eaed --- /dev/null +++ b/content/vac/updates/2024-09-16.md @@ -0,0 +1,179 @@ +--- +title: "2024-09-16 Vac weekly" +date: 2024-09-16 +lastmod: 2024-09-16 +draft: false +--- + +## Vac 2024/09/16 + +### vac:p2p: +- `nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport` + - Reviewable now + - last update comment + - rework closing + - syntactic sugar + - Still some issues on windows/macos, related to nim-usrsctp +- `nimlibp2p:vac:quic` + - [feat(transport): add experimental QUIC Transport (not production ready)](https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/725) + - [chore: add support for i386](https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-quic/pull/52) + - [chore: add support for Nim 2](https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-quic/pull/51) + - Researching about [libp2p tls handshake](https://github.com/libp2p/specs/blob/master/tls/tls.md) and the best way to implement it in nim-libp2p +- `nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance` + - Interop Caching; Fix; [PR](https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1193) +- `gossipsub:vac:gossipsub-perf-improvements` + - Worked on [large message improvements article](https://www.overleaf.com/project/65c91200e9dbfb3cafb6edaf) on overleaf. Done with the basic writeup (Results/Discussions section left). + +### vac:tke: +- `admin/misc` + - read paper from shared by Frederico (Juan) +- `nomos:selfish-behavior` + - started studying the selfish proposing problem in PoS (Frederico) +- `codex:cdx` + - researched details to be solved before launching the Codex token (Frederico) + - Read/commented on whitepaper (Juan) + - worked on refining sims code (Juan) +- `status:L2-deployment` + - discussed with Cats Fishing the probability of a fish biting the hook (Frederico) + - analyze successfull campaigns and strategies of competing L2s (Martin) + - discussion around the reward scheme in Cats Fishing (Martin) + - Mostly worked on catsfishing modeling namely: price dynamics, fish population as a function of players, token distribution (Juan) + - Planned meeting with Ned (Juan) +- `status:SNT-staking` + - catching up on SC's work on the staking contract (Martin) +- `waku:general-incentives` + - further researching micropayments (Martin) + - updating TDC (Martin) + - reviewing Sergei's work (Martin) +- `codex:testnet-incentive` + - reviewing docs (Martin) + +### vac:dst: +- `admin:misc` + - Submitted PR for revising milestones for DST and a few other tweaks in logos roadmap + - Two CCs OOO + - Alberto from 10th to 20th of September + - Wings from 13th to 20th of September + - Prepare documentation for OOO of each CC + - Alberto prepared notes and materials on how to do IDONTWANT testing and other + - Wings prepared to deliver reports on Monday +- `vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:midscale` + - IDONTWANT testing/report + - [Manifests built and tweaked](https://github.com/vacp2p/10ksim/commits/zorlin/heterogenous-idontwant) for spawning heterogenous Waku deployments + - [Test simulation was run to test those manifests](https://www.notion.so/IDONTWANT-Testing-go-waku-nwaku-heterogenous-networks-measuring-the-impact-of-IDONTWANT-1038f96fb65c80c38dd0e834775a6650https://www.notion.so/IDONTWANT-Testing-go-waku-nwaku-heterogenous-networks-measuring-the-impact-of-IDONTWANT-1038f96fb65c80c38dd0e834775a6650) + - Nwaku worked, go-waku has a different binary path and needs a slightly different set of commands, so the simulation didn't fully work. + - Learning about plotting using Alberto's tools. +- `vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:codex:testnet` + - Discussions with Codex team re: testnet needs + - 50 Codex nodes carving up 500TB of storage + - Discussion with Jesse about Codex needs + - Preparing for Codex storage deployment + - SeaweedFS maintenance + - Reviewing documentation for Codex + - Reading Discord chatter about Codex deployment and how it'll work + - Discussion of Helm/Kubernetes charts for Codex + +### vac:qa: +- `waku:interop-testing-02` + - store sync [merged the PR](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/69)(@Florin) + - fixed the lightpush errors caused by recent nwaku [changes](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/71)(@Florin) + - fixes sharding tests related to recent nwaku [changes](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/72)(@Florin) + - Clone the main repo: [Waku Interop Tests](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests)(@Sam) + - Set up the project by installing all dependencies as specified in the repository documentation(@Sam) + - Run a few existing tests to familiarize yourself with the codebase(@Sam) + - Framework understanding and execution of existing test cases locally(@Sam) + - understanding waku existing APIs and flows(@Sam) +- `waku:test-automation-status-go-cli-2` + - added reruns for flaky tests and other adjustments for [status-cli tests](https://github.com/status-im/status-cli-tests/pull/10)(@Florin) +- `nomos:test-automation-data-availability` + - [Test run1 for Nomos/Da - in progress](https://www.notion.so/DA-Test-Plan-Run1-084243a3256c47ae9eee1cfd46fd469b)(@Roman) + - chore: Da dispersal [unit tests update](https://github.com/logos-co/nomos-node/pull/720)(@Roman) +- `vac:test-automation-nim-libp2p` + - Talk to Florin on Testplans: Untestable cases + Speed(@Alex) + - Update Gossipsub - [Peer discovery](https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1168)(@Alex) + - Gossipsub - Control Messages [Draft PR](https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1191)(@Alex) + - Begin Nim Quickstart Guide(@Alex) + +### vac:acz: +- `secure-channels:waku:mls-poc` + - Review [RFC](https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/blob/eth-secpm-splitted/vac/raw/eth-demls.md) with KSR's comments in mind. Linter and sembr errors, and on-chain components ammended. + - Preparation of forum post about [RFC](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/268). + - Code review for Waku. [Notion document](https://www.notion.so/Code-review-KZG-Commitment-1e4eb54ffda747519ae8a330a90981a7). + - [Discussions](https://forum.vac.dev/t/plausible-deniability-in-distributed-storage-networks/321/2) in Vac's forum on plausible deniability. +- `zerokit:vac:maintenance` + - Merged [PR](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/266) with stateless rln-wasm + - Merged [CI bug](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/267) regarding building rln-cli + - Fixed CI actions version [bug](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/268) - ready for review now + - Created [benchmarks](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/269) for different compression type of arkzkey. Add all result into [release issue](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/issues/263#issuecomment-2348730752) +- `anon:vac:gossipsub-anonymity` + - Update on the Mix protocol [PR](https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/97). Firstly, PoW has been moved to the appendix and other minor comments in the PR have been addressed. + - Merged [PR](https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/97) the first PR of Mixnet RFC + - Drafted the [blog post](https://www.notion.so/Introducing-the-Mix-Protocol-Enhancing-Privacy-Across-libp2p-Networks-1018f96fb65c80f48753e838fa1112a2) on custom Mix Protocol for the VAC forum. + - Review the [mix repo](https://github.com/vacp2p/mix) and related issue. + - Crate a draft milestone for mixnet and discuss with Akshaya + - Read [mixnet blog post](https://www.notion.so/Introducing-the-Mix-Protocol-Enhancing-Privacy-Across-libp2p-Networks-1018f96fb65c80f48753e838fa1112a2) from Akshaya. +- `admin/misc` + - 1 cc take rest on Wednesday(11th September) and Thursday(12th September) because of illness. + +### vac:sc:: +- `status:staking-contracts-v1` + - implemented a more scalable staking contract with a PoC streaming rewards instead of having epochs. (still without multiplier points) https://github.com/gravityblast/staking-rewards-streamer + - Investigated issue related to failing rule that `pendingRewards != sumOfEpochRewards` + - Turns out this was a bug in the staking contract + - https://github.com/logos-co/staking/issues/110 + - Fixed with https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/112 + - Meeting: doing a walk-through of staking protocol + - Meeting with team to discuss alternative staking algorithm to calculate rewards and multiplier points + - https://github.com/gravityblast/staking-rewards-streamer/commits/main/ + - Looks promising, will try to integrate into existing protocol and test + - Meet with Status Network ppl to discuss NFT/XP requirements + +### vac:nim: +- `tooling:vac:lsp` + - fixes ci + https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/commit/883935707f762ce135c27d40b4ef2baf9e85fd86 + - Implements restart nimsuggest extension + https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/commit/f526163e315d4d6e3cf6fd99cf7b19049d0a0100 + - Adds extension capabilities to status. Fixes a raise condition in checkFile + https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/commit/caf576ceb08820c817cdca7abb73694624e1083f + - Improves the way ns processes are spawn. Dont need to use threads anymore. + https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/commit/737eea06b97abbdfb7361626ef189c06fcb5ed6e +- `tooling:vac:editor` + - Troubleshoot user issues + - Retrieves extension capabilities from status instead of fetching it + https://github.com/nim-lang/vscode-nim/pull/100 + - Adds a restart nimsuggest button per nimsuggest instance + https://github.com/nim-lang/vscode-nim/pull/99 + - Retrieves the lsp extension capabilities from the server when available (server >= 1.5.2) + https://github.com/nim-lang/vscode-nim/pull/98 +- `tooling:vac:compiler` + - bumps nimble to 0.16.1 #24102 https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/24102 +- `tooling:vac:nimble` + - bump version 0.16.1 #1265 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1265 + - release 0.16.1 + +### vac:rfc: +- `codex:specs-init` + - updated Codex specs readme - https://github.com/codex-storage/codex-spec/pull/6 + - started reviewing codex marketplace rfc for another round of feedback +- `admin/misc` + - Finished workflow linting, applied feedback from felicio - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/90 + +### vac:dr: +- `admin/misc` + - Finished [Fiat-Shamir blog](https://github.com/vacp2p/vac.dev/pull/147) draft; requested reviews. +- `zk:codex:zk-consulting` + - Began investigating Plonk wrappers for final step. + +### vac:nes: +- `state-separation:vac:state-separation-architecture-01` + - Prepared a list of answers for engineers regarding Sandbox implementation. [Moudy + Team] + - Finished drafting different case scenarios for different types of executions to be used for testing. [Moudy] + - Researching existing node implementation projects. [Moudy] + - Began working on missing component for membership proof and non-membership proofs for nullifiers and committed UTXO trees. [Marvin][DR] + - Refine the VM & zkVM collab docs. [Ugur][ACZ] + - Discuss a third way to execute SE\DE with Marvin. [Ugur][ACZ] + [Marvin][DR] +- `zkvm:vac:vm-foundations` + - Finished reading node specifications + prepared questions [Rostyslav + Oleksandr] + - Started writing a follow-up blogpost with Zkvms testing results and conclusion. [Mo +