vac weekly 2023-09-04

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+title: "2023-09-04 Vac weekly"
+tags:
+  - "vac-updates"
+date: 2023-09-04
+lastmod: 2023-09-04
+draft: false
+---
+
+## Vac 2023/09/04
+
+* [Vac Milestones](https://www.notion.so/Vac-Roadmap-907df7eeac464143b00c6f49a20bb632)
+* [Vac Github Repos] (https://www.notion.so/Vac-Repositories-75f7feb3861048f897f0fe95ead08b06)
+
+### vsu::P2P
+
+- `vac:p2p:nim-libp2p:vac:maintenance`
+  - Becaming a Validator in the Nimbus Consensus client (95%)
+  - IWANT replies can be bigger than the pubsub message limit (100%, on review) https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/issues/887
+  - Improve gossipsub DDoS resistance (98%) https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/920
+
+### vsu::Tokenomics
+
+- `vac:tke::codex:economic-analysis`
+  - Presenting Filecoin findings to Codex team
+  - Litepaper: assumptions on collateral
+- `vac:tke::status:SNT-staking`
+  - Highlighted multiple design requirements not met by SC implementation for SC team [notion doc](https://www.notion.so/Implementing-SNT-Staking-Contract-Issues-Differences-2de74e7c19124e78b1c9490300a84422)
+  - Open questions w/ John, epoch duration
+  - Staking governance proposal for when John returns Sep 12
+- `vac:tke::nomos:economic-analysis`
+  - Delegated staking specifications w/Marcin, update for privacy constraints
+  - Bribery attacks analysis, Moh asked to followup early/mid Sep
+- `vac:tke::waku:economic-analysis`
+  - Formalized RLN thoughts shared w/ Aaryamann, will push for additional feedback once Martin returns
+
+### vsu::Distributed Systems Testing (DST)
+
+- `vac:dst:analysis:nomos:nomos-simulation-analysis`
+    - 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
+- `vac:dst:wakurtosis:vac:retrospective-rlog`
+    - Gather info and wrote summary of why we decided to stop using Kurtosis.
+- `vac:dst:10ksim:vac:10ksim-bandwidth-test`
+    - Code diagrams + structurization
+    - Chats with Ben (Codex)
+- `vac:dst:wakurtosis:nomos:ci-integration_02`
+    - (hold for now, since we drop Kurtosis; will continue in November once we have the new 10k simulator tool)
+- `vac:dst:software-testing:waku:test-plans`
+    - Added test plans for filter, lightpush and store: https://www.notion.so/Test-Plans-09c8c7b7f6784c459fb774792665e37c
+- `vac:dst:software-testing:waku:test-automation-js-waku`
+    - Made it possible to choose the nwaku version in the js waku github actions workflow by using workflow_dispatch inputs. [PR Link](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1510)
+
+### vsu:Smart Contracts (SC)
+
+- `vac:sc::vac:secureum-upskilling`
+    - No progress; busy with `CommunityTokenDeployer` contract
+- `vac:sc::status:community-contracts-maintenance`
+    - Gas optimizations in token contracts
+        - Custom errors vs require string messages [PR](https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/pull/3)
+        - Usage of `immutable` properties [PR](https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/pull/5)
+- `vac:sc::status:community-contracts-deployer`
+    - Implemented `CommunityTokenDeployer`
+        - Includes tests and docs
+        - [Pull requests](https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/pull/2)
+        - Ran into a contract size issue; Context [comment](https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/pull/2#issuecomment-1705063304)
+    - Added docs for commuity token deployer contract
+        - [Pull Request](https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/pull/4)
+- `vac:sc::status:governance-contract-mvp`
+  - ERC2470 ressurection
+      - 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)
+  - Research on delegation vs staking contract
+
+### vsu:Applied Cryptogarphy & ZK (ACZ)
+
+- `vac:acz:rlnp2p:waku:membership-management`
+    - fixed makefile target for `rln-keystore-generator` - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1960
+    - log the membership index out upon registration in the `rln-keystore-generator` - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1963
+- `vac:acz:rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-enhancments`
+    - rln was enabled by default in the Makefile - fixed - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1964
+    - ordered pubsub validator execution - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1966 
+    - fixed deserialization of valid merkle roots - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1973
+    - confirm that the fetched credential from the keystore is registered to the membership set - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1980
+    - fixed makefile target for zerokit's `librln.a` - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1981
+    - converted zero-based indexing to 1-based indexing on vacp2p/rln-contract - https://github.com/vacp2p/rln-contract/pull/28
+    - downstreamed zero-based indexing to waku-org/waku-rln-contract - https://github.com/waku-org/waku-rln-contract/pull/8 - 
+    - deployed new version of the registry contract on sepolia - `0xc04937d502E0ae671cedFC2A0BCD6692055520f3` 
+- `vac:acz:zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.4`
+    - Merged a PR to deal with `message_id` range check https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/210
+    - researched `tree_size` issue for the 0.4 release
+    - researched `idCommitment/rateCommitment` issue for the 0.4 release
+
+### vip::zkVM
+
+- `vac:zkvm::vac:research-existing-proof-systems`
+    - [blog post] (https://vac.dev/rlog/Nescience-A-zkVM-leveraging-hiding-properties)
+    - Researched ways to achieve Goal2 and Goal3 for Nescience.
+    - Integrated different techniques for Goal4 and Goal5 for Nescience.
+    - prepared Nova-implementation writeup (https://www.notion.so/zkVM-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#cce2cc365a384126b2a5041900bd3ce9)
+    - Continued Lasso research (https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/introducing-lasso-and-jolt/)
+    - [Notes for Protogalaxy; 100%](https://www.notion.so/zkVM-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#31b80e44529e4f3c80991e4a67afed3c)
+    - Notes for Protostar
+- `vac:zkvm::vac:proof-system-benchmarks`
+    - Added an introductory section for Benchmark in zk-explorations repo: https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/10
+
+### vc::Deep Research
+
+- `vac:dr:gsub-scaling:vac:unstructured-p2p-improvements-survey`
+  - 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)
+- `vac:dr:valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc`
+    - Debugged various appraoches(tcp, gossip, tor). Triaged why attestations not working
+- `vac:dr:valpriv:vac:tor-push-relwork`
+    - completed related work all
+- `vac:dr:consensus:nomos:carnot-paper`
+   - Publishing the Carnot paper (Done) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.16016.pdf
+   - Begin work on writing up Carnot's specification in RFC format
+-  `vac:dr:consensus:nomos:carnot-bribery-article`
+   - Finishing (describing research directions and their pros and cons, polishing the article) and publishing the article (Done) https://www.notion.so/WIP-Bribery-Attacks-in-Consensus-Protocols-Challenges-and-Solutions-e4e108c17dba421abe83de49076c8f25
+- `vac:dr:consensus:nomos:carnot-vote-2-3rds-vote-aggregation`
+   - Completing the initial design and work on presentation slides. The plan will be to present the initial design on September 6 research call
+
+### vc::RFC
+
+- `vac:rfc:rfc:status:port-status-specs`
+    - Started porting `6/PAYLOAD` to vac RFCs
+      - Work-in-progress PR is pending [here](https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/612) 
+      - This RFC specifically needs a lot of work as it misses a lot of the current payload types
+    - Updated `61/STATUS-community-history-archives` according to feedback comments and landed it
+      - Merged PR is [here](https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/610)
+    - started porting 16/keycard-usage to Vac (looking into status-go)
+