---
title: "2024-01-29 Vac weekly"
tags:
  - "vac-updates"
date: 2024-01-29
lastmod: 2024-01-29
draft: false
---

## Vac 2024/01/29

### vac:p2p:
- `nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport`
    - Fix some bugs related to our way of debugging
    - Deep dive into JS js libp2p for interop testing
    - working on figuring out why the noise handshake is blocked by the JS
- `nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance`
    - Help Waku with a websocket issue
- `nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-stagger-send`
    - cont' work on making forward messages non priority - https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/1009

### vac:tke:
- `codex:economic-analysis`
  - add insurer role to the litepaper (@Matty)
  - make sure litepaper is up-to-date (address comments, etc.) (@Matty)
- `status:SNT-staking`
  - get general plan from John on Tuesday (@Martin)
  - review litepaper and TDC (@Matty)
- `nomos:economic-analysis`
  - Clean up Nomos Notion and update TDC (@Frederico)
  - Finish agent based simulations on wealth concentration impacted by leader selection (@Frederico)
  - Read darkpaper when Nomos team has finished incorporating team comments and can share (expect next week)
- `waku:economic-analysis`
  - prepare for meeting with Matt Nemmer (@Martin)
  - research around sustainability model following Franck post (@Martin)
  - work on L2 discussion with Cyprien (@Martin)
  - review litepaper and TDC (@Matty)

### vac:dst:
- `eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test:`
    - Talk with p2p team about control messages; Found error in compilation
    - Add queue metrics data to Prometheus/Grafana
        - Do simulations and check this metric
        - Metrics are scrapped but building is failing
    - Pushed go-waku in kubernetes
        - "Reached" 2k nodes, but there is a huge packet loss and latency times. Didn't try more because it was consuming 1Gig of Bandwidth, and didn't want to get the servers blocked again.
- `admin/misc`
    - Prepare onboarding new team member

### vac:qa:
- `software-testing:waku:test-plans`
    - RLN [test plan](https://www.notion.so/RLN-Relay-9dd36da3029847aa86dda2cb4ccbc145)(@Florin)
    - RLN issues found:
        - Spam messages not [dropped](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2371)(@Florin)
        - Postgres error [regression](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2372)(@Florin)
        - Relayed messages are not [stored](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2380)(@Florin)
    - KEYSTORE_PASSWORD env variable [issue](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2374)(@Roman)
   - RLN [meeting discussion](https://www.notion.so/Notes-from-17-WAKU2-RLN-RELAY-86349c0f9d3f4172ac7226892bf42398?pvs=4)(@QA_Team)
- `software-testing:waku:test-automation-go-waku`
     - Remove dependency on hardcoded private keys for Ganache(@Roman)
- `software-testing:waku:test-automation-nwaku`
    - Prepared local dev enviroment(@Roman)
    - RLN
        - Implemented more RLN tests [PR](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2356)(@Alex)
        - Found [unintended behaviour](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2365) where RLN wasn't enabled for all intended topics(@Alex)
    - Autosharding
        - Review and discard mock-related [PR](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2334)(@Alex)

### vac:acz:
- `rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-v2`
    - downstreamed rln-v2 to waku-rln-contract: https://github.com/waku-org/waku-rln-contract/pull/11, with full test coverage
    - removed websocket dependence from waku-rln-relay: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2364 (improves robustness, pre-requisite for rln-v2 integration)
- `secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat`
    - Completion of the internal notes on Quarantined TreeKEM
    (https://www.notion.so/WiP-Notes-on-the-MLS-protocol-cccc3faad97b4c00ae88bdec40f58e1e)
    - Improvements on the RFC. RFC ready (review required). (https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/blob/master/content/docs/rfcs/70/README.md)
    - Detect two possible gaps against the implementation one is xed448 in and Quarantined TreeKEM in Rust
- `zerokit:vac:maintenance`
    - fixed some infallible conversions: https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/229
    - stumbled upon rayon issue here https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/issues/55, read rayon docs, trying to find a solution

### vac:sc::
- `admin/misc`
  - on-site Certora training

### vac:nescience:
- `state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc`
    - Defined the new [Roadmap](https://github.com/vacp2p/research/issues/193) including different tasks and deadlines
    - Researched signature verification and [Adress hiding](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#9ab4ba4d92914ba0a5f66235446de5d1) in (Shielded and Deshielded) executions (Marvin)
    - Researched Deshielded and Shielded execution vs. different approaches to define and expand the proposal (Moudy)
    - Identified security issues on the combination of SE and DE and proposed possible salt mechanism as a possible solution to the issue (WIP)(Uugur)
- `proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems`
    - Finished writing [CycleFold writeup](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#ff43c4908a9d487fb8305090ed65effa) (Rostyslav)
- `proofsystems:vac:benchmarks`
    - Explored Arecibo and started updating the [documentation](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#3763c2a7ce794875978a1af2ae418a12) (Moudy)
    - Explored the 2 different Halo2 implementation variants and started updating the [documentation](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#d015c95ca971483c805e21c584de818b) (Moudy)
    - Researched adn explored how recursion works in different ZKP we are benchmarking (Moudy)
    - Finished working on a refactoring for [halo2 PRs](https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/22 https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/21) (Rostyslav)
    - Got refactoring [halo2 PRs](https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/22 https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/21) merged (Rostyslav)
    - Started working on arecibo benchmark (Rostyslav)

### vac:dr:
- `gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-paper`
  - Used newly implemented queues (with event fire) to form weighted queues. But event fire mechanism results in much higher delays
  - Trying to enable weighted queue forwarding to support message staggering

### vac:rfc:
- `misc`
    - Worked on new RFC index repo - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/1
    - Waku message update ready for review - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/655
    - Started waku v2 (spec 10) update - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/661