Vac weekly update

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+title: "2023-12-11 Vac weekly"
+tags:
+  - "vac-updates"
+date: 2023-12-11
+lastmod: 2023-12-11
+draft: false
+---
+
+### vac:p2p:
+- `nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport`
+    - Debugging SCTP
+- `nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance`
+    - Yamux
+      - Re-write misleading parts (eg sendQueueSize)
+      - Start writing explanations/comments
+      - cont' https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/987
+    - added the hp tests to nim-libp2p (they run with every PR)
+    - working on the nim-libp2p releases
+
+### vac:tke:
+- `vac:tke::status:SNT-staking`
+    - Resuming conversation with SC team on staking contract and Certora training
+    - starting to discuss with Pablo on Waku sharding to support decentralized scaling of Status
+- `vac:tke::nomos:economic-analysis`
+    - Incorporating changes in consensus from Carnot to Ouroboros
+    - Research how delegation is used in comps of Cardano, Polkadot, and EigenLayer, compared against privacy restrictions given Nomos objectives
+- `vac:tke::waku:economic-analysis`
+    - Sharding discussion w/ Pablo on Waku
+    - Continuing GitHub issue feedback on Waku incentives and reputation (bottom up approach)
+    - Also start a business model analysis and implications for next steps with the protocol (top down approach)
+
+### vac:dst:
+- `analysis:nomos:simulation-analysis`
+    - The goals and the responsibilities for the paper reaffirmed
+    - Analysis correctly and switfly found parameter issues in the small-tree simulations (which follow a different control path); met with Gusto and it is fixed now
+- `analysis-gsub-model:vac:refactoring`
+    - 95% done, barring minor stylistics and input re-structuring branch(https://github.com/vacp2p/research/tree/0xFugue-waku-scaling-rewrite)
+- `analysis-gsub-model:status:control-messages`
+    - The blog post is one 20% done: the overall design of Waku explained and modelling focus defined draft(https://github.com/vacp2p/vac.dev/tree/0xFugue-waku-model)
+- `eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test`:
+    - Test new kernel parameters
+    - Investigame uptimes for ram on simulations
+    - Investigate packets drop
+    - Solve issues with libp2p versions (https://www.notion.so/Notes-423c72646a0944d1bd7889d7dec30bb4)
+- `software-testing:waku:test-automation-nwaku`
+    - Continued implementing lightpush tests
+    - Decided on way forward with `direction` refactor PR: Merge.
+    - Lightpush SEGFAULT on publishing message over size limit; [Issue](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2271)
+
+### vac:acz:
+- `admin/misc`
+    - participate @ waku hackerhouse, ethindia
+- `rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-enhancments`
+    - assist in benchmarking rln tree onchain, report: https://github.com/waku-org/research/issues/72
+- `secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat`
+    - Familiarization with RFC9420 and RFC9180.
+    - Confection of several comparisons to get to SoA:
+        - TreeKEM vs ART.
+        - HPKE vs UPKE.
+    - Work on using Ethereum as Authentication Service.
+    -  Created a document about Farcaster's Async Triple-Ratchet Protocol [(WIP)](https://www.notion.so/WiP-Farcaster-s-Async-Triple-Ratchet-Protocol-ATR-a940e4f944fd40a8a8e039a47431bb9b?pvs=4)
+    -  Researching about Triple-Ratchet protocol from literature. 
+- `zerokit:vac:maintenance`
+    - researched issue https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/issues/115
+
+### vac:sc::
+- `vac:maintainance/misc`
+    - Continued researching Certora and formal verification
+    - reviewed old Certora specs
+    - Exploring Requirements for Smart Contracts in a Privacy-preserving Environment (for logos research call)
+
+### vac:nescience:
+- `state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc`
+    - Researched different L2 and Rollups focusing on privacy (Az, Pol, Zc, Nmd, Ada)
+    - Reviewed Az Ugur's doc
+    - Discussed on Zc for a proposal model
+    - Produced a full doc on [Pol architecture](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#3bd6854511f04c46804e9c465e76230c)
+    - Continue with Verkle tree document for complexity estimates for various cases.
+    - Wrote brief survey on (newer PCSs) (Pending upload): [1](https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/420.pdf), [2](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/917), [3](https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1043.pdf)
+    - Continued reading [VM SMT](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1762.pdf)
+    - Began reading [towers over binary fields](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1784)
+    - researched how to update the public state by a private execution
+    - Worked on a proposal about a public state that we can update by a private TX 
+    - Read about how Zcash update their public state
+    - Check a [paper about Zcash-like execution on Ethereum](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.00905.pdf)
+- `proofsystems:vac:benchmarks`
+   - Fixed comment for a PR for GWC implementation of poseidon circuit for halo2  https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/17
+   - Fixed comment for a PR for SHPLONK implementation of poseidon circuit for halo2  https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/18
+   - Fixed github issues on zk-explorations repo
+- `proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems`
+    - Writing BaseFold writeup (https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1705.pdf)
+
+### vac:dr:
+- `valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc`
+    - separate measurement for aggregation from attestation, block proposal, sync committee.
+- `valpriv:vac:tor-push-paper`
+    - Shared to-be-submitted arxiv version
+- `gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-paper`
+    - Completed simulations for relatively large network (upto 6000 nodes with 50KB and upto 1000 nodes with 1MB messages), on DST test server
+    - Result analysis is complete. Looking into one anomaly (increased latency seen for approximately 1% nodes in Reduced Sending method)
+    - Finalizing graphs and results presentation
+
+### vac:rfc:
+- `waku:waku-usage`
+    - updated waku-usage - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/627
+- `waku:waku-keystore`
+    - Updated waku-keystore, ready for feedback - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/631
+