--- title: "2024-03-18 Vac weekly" tags: - "vac-updates" date: 2024-03-18 lastmod: 2024-03-18 draft: false --- ## Vac 2024/03/18 ### vac:p2p: - `nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance` - preparing interview - reviewing PRs - [Graceful Shutdown (1007)](https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/issues/1007) Fix - [PR](https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/1065) - [Single topic for RPC Message (1052)](https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/issues/1052) - [PR](https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1061) Update PR with suggestions ### vac:tke: - `admin/misc` - reviewed CVs (Frederico) - Interviews with candidates (Martin) - `nomos:mixnet-incentives` - developed a pricing model for packets routed through the mixnet (Frederico) - modified Nym reward allocation mechanism to Nomos constraints (Frederico) - `codex:cdx` - designed the CDX insurance model (Frederico) - `status:L2-deployment` - kicked off a list of L2 comparables, focused on business models and ecosystem incentivization (Frederico) - Kicking off work on incentives for L2 (Martin) - `waku:rln-membership:` - Proposing new RLN membership structures to the team - other than price per membership (Martin) - Follow-ups to Franck's response to our material we presented last week (Martin) - `status:SNT-staking` - Continue to monitor development and give feedback for the staking contract (Martin) - Assist the SC team in further checks and definition of testing scenarios (Martin) ### vac:dst: - `eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test` - Finish plotter module tests and prepare PR (ongoing) - Improve framework scraping interval (https://github.com/vacp2p/10ksim/issues/8) - Try kubernetes API portforwading again - Simulations: - Updated waku to 0.26 - Changed some parameters (flags, memory available, etc) - Results with 3k matches perfectly with 1K in terms of bandwidth. - Bootstrap now doens't crash. Caused by OOM previously. - `eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test` - Various simulations, gathering additional data - Calls with @Alberto, helping fix scraping - Attempted to get hardware offloading working on existing ConnectX-4 LX adapters - Conclusion was it's not possible (NVIDIA deprecated the offloading for CX4LX) but we're now in a good place to try offloading on the new CX6s once they arrive - CX6s are at the post office waiting for pickup -> installation - `admin/misc` - Met with Codex team re: helping with Codex testnet ### vac:qa: - `waku:test-automation-sharding` - Finished js-waku sharding tests and prepared [PR for review](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1883)(@Florin) - Issues found:(@Florin) - Allow subscribeToContentTopic to use other [cluster IDs](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/1900) - ApplicationInfo to PubsubTopic doesn't take clusterId into [consideration](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/1902) - `waku:interop-testing` - Created [scripts](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/23) to help reproduce bugs [2512](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2512) and [1034](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/1034)(@Florin) - Improve logs for [manual debug](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/21)(@Florin) - Found go-waku [regression/issue](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/1054)(@Florin) - Waku node health/reliability [Issue 2369 - updated](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2369) and [Issue 165 - updated](https://github.com/waku-org/docs.waku.org/issues/165)(@Roman) - `waku:test-automation-go-waku` - Improve unit test coverage for [peermanager](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1035)(@Roman) - Issues found:(@Roman) - Metadata might not always be [available](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/1055) - Describe topic event transition between libp2p and [peer manager level](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/1053) - Improve unit test coverage for [peer exchange](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1046)(@Roman) - Improve unit test coverage for [Discv5](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1051)(@Roman) - `waku:test-automation-nwaku` - [Resultify fetchPeerExchangePeers](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2486)(@Alex) - [Simplify imports](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2467)(@Alex) - [Fix and add test cases](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2533) for Metadata protocol disconnecting light clients [2491](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2491)(@Alex) - Merge Peer Exchange [Tests PR](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2464)(@Alex) - Merge [Discv5 PR](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2487)(@Alex) ### vac:acz: - `rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-v2` - rln-relay v2 integrated into nwaku: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2345 - `secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat` - Prepare a Notion page containing a specification for the DCGKA algorithm. - Think and propose solutions to some the DCGKA limitations. - https://www.notion.so/DCGKA-Specification-5a0b67a3ce674ae3a5220b560015cd2c#8f9f17014e5a479788da2544d64a993e - Study Ramses' notes in [Notion](https://www.notion.so/DCGKA-Specification-5a0b67a3ce674ae3a5220b560015cd2c?pvs=4) - Read about Jitsi in this [paper](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1118.pdf) - Read about difficulties on decentralization of MLS section 8.5 of [paper](https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1189.pdf) - `misc` - gnark-rln implementation: https://github.com/vacp2p/gnark-rln - added multiple curves to rust stealth address repo: https://github.com/vacp2p/erc-5564-rs - assist with deploying waku-rln-contract to waku-simulator ### vac:sc:: - `status:staking-contracts-v1` - Merged coverage improvements - Finished ironing out all pending certora rules - https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/81 - https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/82 - https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/85 - https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/86 - https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/57 - - `status:community-contracts-token-import` - Reviewed/discussed migration options for community vaults - https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/issues/32#issuecomment-1997000297 - `vac:maintainance/misc` - Research on ENS Usernames to change release delay ### vac:rfc: - `rfc-process-restructuring` - Markdown lint does not lint files, proposed fix- https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/25 - Open the proposal to COSS changes - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/4 - `misc` - create website repo - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-website ### vac:dr: - `valpriv:vac:val-priv-net` - Finalized and share the related proposal() https://www.notion.so/privacy-preserving-validator-network-e92ab3e563074a538bb0e13e5c9321e6 - `valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc` - holesky validators registration and execution - `valpriv:vac:tor-push-paper` - https://www.overleaf.com/project/6499e467346d9f56b2971caa - `gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-paper` - Implemented IMReceiving message for use with IDontWant message to improve GossipSub performance against v. large message. [Experimental PR](https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1070) is available for review/discussion. - This is just a prototype experiment showing 40% bandwidth reduction and more than 10% latency reduction for 1MB messages. - Requires feedback, as it needs new message inclusion - `gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation` - Conducted results for different IDontWant/IMReceiving message use cases. The results are available in [VAC forum post](https://forum.vac.dev/t/idontwant-message-impact/283). - `zk:codex:storage-proofs-open-problems-review` - Began examining [current version of Codex system's description](https://github.com/codex-storage/codex-storage-proofs-circuit) ### vac:nes: - `state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc` - Drafted document about privacy improvements for state separation (Moudy) - Continue work on monitoring (Marvin) - Defined new milstones (Moudy) - Completed report about SE/DE in PDAGs see in [Notion](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#4a32272ca966467d8cd46833bedaafd0) (Ugur) - `proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems` - checked out this [Hypernova implementation](https://github.com/microsoft/Nova/pull/175) and continued reading [LatticeFold](https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257.pdf) (Rostyslav) - Defined new milstones (Moudy) - `proofsystems:vac:benchmarks` - Overlooked at the paper and continued researching Nova vs. Supernova/ Nova vs. Halo2 recursion vs. aggregation (Moudy) - Defined new milstones (Moudy) - Worked on enhancing Nova-Scotia performance (Rostyslav) - `virtual-machine-creation:vac:vm-foundations` - Defined new milestones (Moudy)