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+title: "2024-08-26 Vac weekly"
+tags:
+  - "vac-updates"
+date: 2024-08-26
+lastmod: 2024-08-26
+draft: false
+---
+
+## 2024/08/26
+
+**Tokenomics**:
+Last week:
+- `nomos:cryptarchia-wealth-concentration-known-stake`
+  - reviewed the statistical analyses (Frederico)
+  - Merged statistical analyses into main doc (Juan)
+- `nomos:selfish-behavior`
+  - continued developing the code required for this study (Frederico)
+- `codex:cdx`
+  - further reviewed the simulation code (Frederico)
+  - met Codex to discuss current state and next steps (Frederico)
+  - defined next tasks (Frederico)
+  - further improved the simulation code (Juan)
+  - met Codex to discuss current state and next steps (Juan)
+  - defined next tasks (Juan)
+- `status:L2-deployment`
+  - reviewed the work on swap aggregator (Frederico)
+  - caught up with the XP program discussion (Frederico)
+  - following up with Cyp and discussing cooldown periods (didn't take place last week) (Martin)
+  - detailed suggestions for cats fishing reward scheme (Martin)
+  - caught up with catsfishing docs (Juan)
+- `waku:general-incentives`
+  - reviewed RLN specs PR (Frederico)
+  - discussing the credits system with the team and analyzing tokenomic potential and bottlenecks (Martin)
+- `status:SNT-staking`
+  - following latest edits (Martin)
+- `others`
+  - research and a call with the distribution platform devs on bonding curve design (Martin)
+  - suggesting a points system for ordinals (Martin)
+  - exploring project ideas for ETHOnline (Martin)
+  - research and a call with the distribution platform devs on bonding curve design (Juan)
+  - reviewed/discussed points system for ordinals (Juan)
+
+This week:
+- `nomos:selfish-behavior`
+  - to continue the required coding for this study (Juan)
+  - to continue the required coding for this study (Frederico)
+- `codex:cdx`
+  - To Collab with Frederico's tasks (Juan)
+  - To keep working on code, making it more granular etc. (Juan)
+  - to define the basic aspects of the CDX token (Frederico)
+  - to review Codex latest developments on L2 pricing (Frederico)
+  - to review TKE wording in the Codex Whitepaper (Frederico)
+- `status:L2-deployment`
+  - To staart unifying docs on catsFishing (Juan)
+  - Prepare meeting with Ned for after Sept. 1 (Juan)
+  - waiting for Cyp to describe the incentive framework to provide feedback (Martin)
+  - detailed suggestions for cats fishing reward scheme - researching further dual token model (Martin)
+  - discuss with Cats Fishing the probability of a fish biting the hook (Frederico)
+- `waku:general-incentives`
+  - getting familiar with and following the discussion around the RLN Solidity contract (Martin)
+- `Other`
+  - Work on requests from Based (distribution platform) on bonding curve, Uni, and sybils (Juan)
+  - reviewing the points system for ordinals, additional feedback (Martin)
+  - hacking solo at ETHOnline hackathon (Martin)
+
+Blockers: None
+
+**QA**:
+Last week:
+
+- `waku:interop-testing-02`
+	- fix timeout [issue](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/66)(@Florin)
+	- added more complex e2e [tests](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/65)(@Florin)
+
+- `waku:test-automation-status-go-cli-2`
+	- investigate community failures(@Florin)
+	- recreate deleted [communities](https://github.com/status-im/status-cli-tests/pull/7)(@Florin)
+	- communitiy test fixes and job that [automatically recreates cummunities each month](https://github.com/status-im/status-cli-tests/pull/9)(@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 kzgrs-backend unit tests update(@Roman)
+      [PR 700 - in progress](https://github.com/logos-co/nomos-node/pull/700)
+      [Issue 692 - open](https://github.com/logos-co/nomos-node/issues/692)
+
+- `vac:test-automation-nim-tooling`
+    - test: use Nimble to manage Nim(@Roman)
+    [PR 222 - in progress](https://github.com/status-im/nim-stew/pull/222) - not sure if we could find less occupied reviewer?
+
+- `vac:test-automation-nim-libp2p`
+    - Gossipsub - Peer discovery(@Alex)
+        - Investigate existing `resub after unsub` test: It's wrong.
+        - [Draft PR](https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1168)
+
+This week:
+
+- `waku:interop-testing-02`
+    - collect a list of known nwaku issues reported to github(@Florin)
+	- implement tests related to:(@Florin)
+		- waku metrics
+		- waku log errors
+
+- `nomos:test-automation-data-availability`
+    - Continue with [Test run1 for Nomos/Da](https://www.notion.so/DA-Test-Plan-Run1-084243a3256c47ae9eee1cfd46fd469b) (@Roman)
+    - Finish [PR 700](https://github.com/logos-co/nomos-node/pull/700)(@Roman)
+
+
+- `vac:test-automation-nim-libp2p`
+    - Gossipsub(@Alex)
+        - Finish Peer discovery
+            - Fix `resub after unsub` test.
+        - Continue next block
+
+Blocker:
+
+**DST**:
+Last week:
+- `vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:midscale`:
+    - Creating a [new branch](https://github.com/vacp2p/10ksim/commits/Alberto/victoria_optimization/) for concurrent log analysis
+    - Continued simulations with `perf` analysis for Gabriel
+    - Meeting with Zoltan + Ivan re: message duplication
+        - Consistently happens in TWN
+        - We should try multiple different versions
+- `admin/misc`
+    - Finished backups for DST-DeepResearch machine teardown
+    - Meeting with @corpetty re: understanding and measuring distributed systems and their properties
+- `vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:10k`:
+    - Ran 10K sim and had to abort it after a few minutes due to CPU/RAM/scheduling issues - didn't make it all the way up to 10K which is unusual.
+    - 
+This week:
+- `vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:midscale`:
+    - Finish the new concurrent anaylsis branch
+    - Modify the Waku with `perf` deployment so that it gracefully shuts down Waku nodes
+    - Run new simulation and give `perf` results to Gabriel
+    - Message duplication issue
+        - Attempt mixing versions of Waku and seeing if it still occurs
+- `admin/misc`
+    - Roadmap update
+        - Would like to have a meeting on Tuesday w/Alberto (Ksr optional but welcome) re: roadmap and go over the changes together
+        - Add: Codex milestone
+        - Modify: Visualiser milestone
+        - Review if we need to change anything immediately as part of output from the meeting with Corey
+- `vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:10k`
+    - Examine aborted test from last week https://www.notion.so/2045-4eee36779dc64d9b879f05008d4d90a3
+        - Get Nia back online
+        - Rerun test
+    - Attempt an automatic deployment of Waku via Argo Workflow
+- `vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:midscale`
+    - Attempt matrix tests of Waku (spawn 100, 500, 1000 nodes with one request)
+        - https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/applicationset/Generators-Matrix/
+        - Maybe combined with https://github.com/argoproj/argo-events
+Blocker:
+
+**SC**:
+Last week:
+- `codex::contracts-formal-verification`
+    - Fixed bug that requesting storage can be done with insufficient slot count
+        - https://github.com/codex-storage/codex-contracts-eth/pull/163
+    - Worked on making existing CVL rules pass, as they broke after we've corrected our Certora config
+        - Issue: https://github.com/codex-storage/codex-contracts-eth/issues/161
+        - PR: https://github.com/codex-storage/codex-contracts-eth/pull/162
+    - started working on rules for `The contract has enough funds to pay back everything` 
+        - https://github.com/codex-storage/codex-contracts-eth/issues/127
+- `vac:maintainance/misc`
+    - Researched merkle tree and merkle proof generation for efficient airdrops
+    - Also bitmap optimzation for storage efficiency when maintaining claim data
+    - Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1w799Pb6V1sPU7uCjMoTMSYD8xpxj9--SDMJ7RmbVQ1Y/edit?usp=sharing
+
+This week:
+- `codex::contracts-formal-verification`
+    - Address PR comments by certora to use ghost variables to track certain field changes in codex
+        - Context: https://github.com/codex-storage/codex-contracts-eth/pull/162#discussion_r1726963085
+    - Make use of ghost for requestContext as well
+    - continue working on https://github.com/codex-storage/codex-contracts-eth/issues/127
+- `status:staking-contracts-v1`
+    - Help finalize MP estimation work
+        - Goal: get PR ready for review, including tests and working CVL rules by EOW
+        - Pending PR: https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/97
+        - Issue: https://github.com/logos-co/staking/issues/100
+
+Blocker:
+
+**ACZ**:
+Last week:
+- `zerokit:vac:maintenance`
+    - Finished stateless feature. Now [PR](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/265) ready fo review
+    - Fixed bug with no running test in this [PR](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/264)
+    - Started working on issue with adding timestamp into signal.  Based on this [issue](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2972) in waku
+- `secure-channels:waku:mls-poc`
+    - Discuss the necessity and features of benchmarks with Ekaterina.
+	- Discuss the content of de-mls testnet with Ekaterina.
+    - Fixed linter error from smart contract [PR](https://github.com/vacp2p/de-mls/pull/28)
+    - Created new [demo](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Nr1HcDu3PxJHYjkrpSeoPpauoKW-xdxu/view?usp=sharing)
+    - Review of latest [PRs](https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/84/files).
+    - Started theoretical analysis of deMLS.
+- `anon:vac:gossipsub-anonymity`
+    - Review of latest [PRs](https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/85/files).
+    - Found an issue with filler and beta computation in our [spec](https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/85/commits/c1c9303b37e1fb1596a6996a59101bb79042f296) - fixed the issue, updated the [implementation](https://github.com/vacp2p/mix/commit/ef4eb8b28b1df0cce1e4b16e073cae00bd38fce9).
+    - Sphinx packet wrapping and unwrapping works correctly as in [test_sphinx.nim](https://github.com/vacp2p/mix/blob/main/tests/test_sphinx.nim).
+
+- `admin/misc`
+    - Finished the new organization of the [ACZ Page](https://www.notion.so/Applied-Cryptography-ZK-870520f131954b90b1837ec4749f890f).
+    - Review of the [Marlin proposal](https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1047) for a prospective [code review](https://crates.io/crates/ark-poly-commit).
+- `consulting:codex:proxy-re-encryption`
+    - Creation of draft for a [forum post](https://www.notion.so/Forum-post-on-Plausible-Deniability-9f6b1216b44546da853fb2bc0fd59be6) on Codex research.
+    - Started research on the cryptographic components of Codex.
+    
+This week:
+- `zerokit:vac:maintenance`
+    - Finish issue about adding timestamp into signal. Based on this [issue](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2972) in waku
+    - Integrate stateless into rln-wasm regarding [release plan](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/issues/263)
+- `secure-channels:waku:mls-poc`
+    - Theoretical analysis of deMLS. Includes discussions with Ekaterina and Ugur.
+    - Finish reviewing de-mls [PR](https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/84/files).
+    - Determining the new milestone for de-mls testnet and benchmark for [poc](https://github.com/vacp2p/de-mls)
+- `admin/misc`
+    - Finish the review of [Marlin](https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1047). Decision of aptitude for a [code review](https://crates.io/crates/ark-poly-commit).
+- `anon:vac:gossipsub-anonymity`
+	- Move the mixnet milestone from DR to ACZ and enhance the related [milestone](https://roadmap.logos.co/vac/dr/anon/vac/gossipsub-anonymity).
+	- Update [Notion page](https://www.notion.so/Anonymized-GossipSub-Protocol-AGP-Wip-cbcbcd6067b347bb812041bce9c110ce) and [PR](https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/85) with the filler and beta computation changes.
+	- Perform additional tests with sphinx packet wrapping and unwrapping.
+	- Implement anonymized libp2p ping.
+
+
+Blocker:
+
+**DR**:
+Last week:
+- `admin/misc`
+    - Provided feedback on [Nomos Pairing notes](https://www.notion.so/Pairing-Details-b18f5eca8dea4f26ab80698214cafdd7)
+    - Begin work organizing [zk notions](https://www.notion.so/Zero-Knowledge-Proofs-7fe978ddebb3458895e9887c67ec11fd)
+
+- `gsub-scaling:vac:unstructured-p2p-improvements-survey`
+  - Studied different articles/blogs regarding p2p protocols' performance/improvements. Added relevant works to zotero (under VacP2P/P2P)
+
+- `gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-paper`
+  - Started working on [large message improvements article](https://www.overleaf.com/project/65c91200e9dbfb3cafb6edaf) on overleaf (still a WIP, in early phase) 
+
+- `zk:codex:zk-consulting`
+    - Finished notes on Spartan and Pari
+
+This week:  
+- `gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-paper`
+  - Work on [large message improvements article.
+
+- `admin/misc`
+    - Continue organizing notions page
+- `zk:codex:zk-consulting`
+    - Work on node aggregation
+    
+Blockers: none
+
+
+**Nescience**:
+Last week:
+This week:
+Blocker:
+