2023-09-25 Vac weekly

vac:p2p: §

• nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-ddos-mitigation
  • Merged GossipSub Traffic Scoring https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/920
• nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-stagger-send
  • Continued simulations
• nim-libp2p:vac:maintenance
  • Tried to integrate HP in nwaku, but rendezvous isn’t integrated yet
• nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport
  • Continued vertical integration of protocols

vac:tke: §

• vac:tke::codex:economic-analysis
  • Meeting with Codex on Tuesday, get in sync on timeline and steps for final delivery
• vac:tke::status:SNT-staking
  • Review goverance process itself, governance proposal template, staking gov proposal w/ John
• vac:tke::nomos:economic-analysis
  • Analysis of rewards for delegation vs validation
  • Alvaro shared further docs to review on Private Addressing incentives and two-tiered staking
• vac:tke::waku:economic-analysis
  • Reading WAKU papers and onboarding Sergei, establishing recurring cadence

vac:dst: §

• wakurtosis:waku:techreport_03
  • Delivered (pending discussion with Waku team)
• analysis-shadow:vac:shadow-gossipsub-analysis
  • Run 20K simulation (resources test)
• eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test
  • Check with Slava K8s configuration, to run nodes in master aswell (K3s)
  • Code first multi-node deployment
  • Dockerized DST node
• software-testing:waku:test-plans
  • Started working at the Relay test plan
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-js-waku
  • Addressed all comments from last week PRs and merged them
  • Fixed the nwaku CI part that invokes js-waku: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2061
  • Bumped nwaku version in js-waku CI: https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1591
  • Helped investigating nwaku issues caught by the js-waku tests
  • Investigated some flaky tests and tried to fix them: https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1592
  • Started working on adding new tests for the static sharding functionality for js-waku
  • Added a bug report found during testing and a feature request for test reporting
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-nwaku
  • Implement service to service waku filter tests: PR
  • Implement coverage for nwaku: PR
  • Rebase all test branches from master, fixing numerous git mishaps.
  • Update PRs with comments.

vac:acz: §

• rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-enhancments
  • fixed a segfault issue - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2047
• zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.4
  • still investigating the proof verification failures using the new artifacts. can confirm that the inputs for proof generation are valid, and are verified by using snarkjs.
• Removed private message_id from compute_id_secret agruments
  • Fix RLNProofValues
• secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
  • WiP Notion doc on the specifications of the protocol

vac:sc:: §

• status:community-contracts-deployer
  • Merged all pending PRs. This milestone is now done
  • Deployed a version of token deployer contracts to optimism goerli
• status:community-curation-contracts
  • Discussed and started implementing necessary changes for beta release
    • Foundry deployment script
    • batch processing of votes in finalization phase
• status:SNT-optimism-bridge
  • Sync call with Certora on audit report and next audit planning
  • created tests for onTransfer reentrancy case https://github.com/vacp2p/minime/pull/29
    • fixed reentrancy https://github.com/vacp2p/minime/pull/24
  • rised coverage from 54.62% to 67.23% https://github.com/vacp2p/minime/pull/33
  • Alter Minime to allow being extended to specialized tokens (such as OptimismMintableERC20) https://github.com/vacp2p/minime/pull/32
  • create script for detailed gas-report https://github.com/vacp2p/minime/pull/25
  • locally optimized gas usage

vac:zkvm: §

• proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems

  • Written a document for State Separation motivation for Nescience
  • Readings to justify Goal 3
  • Considered some scientific paper format for Nescience
  • Worked on Jolt writeup draft (https://www.notion.so/zkVM-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#fae64ac478004b749f7b211a9542f2d2)
  • Started research on Poseidon paper (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/458.pdf) and is implementations
  • Logos research call presentation.
  • Notes on Recproof (WIP) and zkTree (same document).
  • Notes on Poseidon2 (WIP)

• proofsystems:vac:benchmarks

  • Added an explanation for Plonky2 circuit [To add to GitHub]
  • Started reading Nova circuit to provide an explanation of what the circuit is doing
  • finish up Nova bellman benchmark https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/14

vac:dr: §

• valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc
  • Investigated the issue with failing attestation, Fixed the exclusion of connected peer
  • Debugged the latency script evaluation/ Recalculated stats.
• valpriv:vac:tor-push-paper
  • Updated the structure of the paper and added tentative contributions to the paper.
  • Added sections on latency and security analysis in the results section along with the potential limitations of the proposed method.
• gossipsub-improvements-paper
  • Research log post for GossipSub improvements is ready for review
  • Incorporated changes to the Introduction, and Related work. Results part is still a work in process.
• consensus:nomos:carnot-vote-2-3rds-vote-aggregation
  • Writing the pseudocode (https://github.com/logos-co/nomos-specs/blob/Carnot-vote-aggregation/carnot/carnot-vote-aggregation.py).
  • Adding discussion to the high level protocol document(https://www.notion.so/High-Level-Algorithm-6535ac0363df4629ad2c40dff4bc62cd)
• :nomos:review
  • Reviewing https://www.notion.so/Data-Availability-Specification-c3961b681eba4ccdab2be9181e4207b4#3df2088e8a9b4c048310e51ff8e577a8

vac:rfc: §

• status:port-status-specs
  • porting 2/ACCOUNTS to vac rfcs (RFC 65); in review process
  • 63/STATUS-Keycard-Usage merged https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/63/