2023-12-04 Vac weekly

vac:p2p: §

• nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport
  • Trying to make the last handshake work:
    • Re-write the webrtc-transport
    • Re-write datachannel to understand why the webrtc doesn’t connect
    • Spend some time on the noise protocol
    • It appears the problem comes from SCTP
• nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance
  • Add Hole Punching to libp2p test-plans https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/issues/966 and https://github.com/libp2p/test-plans/pull/322
  • fix(dcutr): update the DCUtR initiator transport direction to Inbound https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/
• nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance
  • fix: remove forgotten “matrix-prep” job https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/997
  • VM hosting providers updated https://www.notion.so/991bb915e4634248a764832e56f53160?v=24979d84f52f4df2b779bf5eb24ec3c5&pvs=4
  • Project requirements for P2P CI added https://www.notion.so/782270f71b72438e963e0e5ef73358d9?v=5560c9000535403c9f72862eb9775ff9&pvs=4
  • CI workflow is failing frequently; Testing Nimble lock file - Installed Windows 2019 - resolving Nimble install issues on Windows
    • https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/issues/975
    • https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/tree/fix/ci-workflow-stability -https://discord.com/channels/864066763682218004/1172153963559260231
  • fix: move workflows for Nim Devel and legacy i386 from “Daily” -> comments resolved, commits resubmited with GPG signature https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/968
  • Investigate flaky tests issue PR [Ongoing discussion]

vac:tke: §

• vac:tke::codex:economic-analysis
  • Still waiting for further Codex feedback on next steps for litepaper
• vac:tke::status:SNT-staking
  • This week followup with SC team on staking contract implementation (may be delayed due to Martin out with covid)
• vac:tke::nomos:economic-analysis
  • Offsite documents will be released this week, Frederico will review and participate in their planning meeting for next steps on week and month
• vac:tke::waku:economic-analysis
  • Discussed EigenTrust reputation with Sergei, deprioritzed to first design simpler system
  • Martin still out, when back will sync w/ Waku team for offsite debrief and identify next steps
  • For now, TE team is actively commenting on Sergei’s github issues to formalize Waku specs

vac:dst: §

• analysis-gsub-model:vac:refactoring
  • The different cases and runs can now be partly automated
• eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test:
  • Run more simulations, do more in depth analysis
  • Update repositories with latest changes
  • Update notion information regarding Kubernetes cluster
  • Created plots and put everything in notion (https://www.notion.so/Results-dec50e8dc3e5426ab4f34c712de0b4f
• vac:dst:software-testing:waku:test-automation-interop-testing
  • Filter subscribe PR:
    • covers subscribe creation and update
    • reached 67 tests
  • Issue reported gowaku: encoding/hex: odd length hex string error when subscribing
  • Issue reported nwaku: pubsubTopic not required as described in the specs
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-nwaku
  • Begin lightpush tests PR - WIP
  • Found a Lightpush.publish attribute type bug Issue
  • direction attribute related functionality
    • PR
    • Refactor from ascending to direction for consistency
    • HistoryQuery.direction Default value fix
    • direction attribute from bool to enum
  • Merged PR
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-go-waku
  • Wrote 5 tests related to filter - coverage improvement https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/931
  • Opened & got fixed issue “unsubscribe all with unrelated peer” https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/933

vac:acz: §

• rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-enhancments
  • work on retry strategy for rpc calls in rln-relay: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2217
• secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
  • Completion of the group chat approach using UPKE.
  • Inclusion of an elliptic-curve variation of UPKE.
  • Improvements on the RFC and solving questions from Waku team.
  • created a document about comparison treeKEM and ADKG in terms of security, complexity, and additional features. (WIP)
• zerokit:vac:maintenance
  • researched issue https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/issues/78
• admin/misc
  • investigate having the membership tree onchain: https://github.com/waku-org/research/issues/56
  • worked with waku to have the membership tree onchain, successfully integrated in https://github.com/vacp2p/rln-contract/pull/31, moved to foundry template as well (will sync with SC unit)

vac:sc:: §

• status:status-network-token-v2
  • Some cleanup https://github.com/status-im/status-network-token-v2/pull/2
  • Added certora integration for CI https://github.com/status-im/status-network-token-v2/pull/3
  • Added sepolia deployment config https://github.com/status-im/status-network-token-v2/pull/4
  • Deployed SNTV2 on Sepolia
    • https://sepolia.etherscan.io/address/0xE452027cdEF746c7Cd3DB31CB700428b16cD8E51
    • https://github.com/status-im/status-network-token-v2/pull/6
• vac:maintenance:misc
  • Added certora integration for CI to governance https://github.com/vacp2p/governance/pull/3
  • Researched SAT and SMT solvers to get a better understanding of how Certora works
  • Deployed OP SNT to OP Sepolia
    • PR for bridge UI https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/ethereum-optimism.github.io/pull/591
    • PR for addresses and sepolia config https://github.com/logos-co/optimism-bridge-snt/pull/29

vac:nescience: §

• state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc
  • Worked on different L2 and Rollups focusing on privacy (Az, Pol, Zc)
  • Looking on UTXO - Account based traslation (Car)
  • Verkle tree document (WIP)
  • Begin to survey newer PCSs to see if any may yield better results than KZG. 1, 2, 3
  • Begin reading VM SMT
  • Delved into the L2 protocol and understood how they use hybrid states and UTXO based execution. And extract some insight from the architecture.
  • Documented L2 protocol and its hybrid execution (WIP)

vac:dr: §

• valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc
  • aggregation, block proposal time, tor diagnostic to consider and add.
• valpriv:vac:tor-push-paper
  • Finalizing, adding discussion, revising figures
• gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-paper
  • carried out experiments on shadow simulator for GissipSub improvements paper. The experiments check the performance of proposed schemes against increasing network size, increasing message sizes and increasing publishers.
  • Most of the simulations are done successfully. Some large simulations may take 1-2 more days

vac:rfc: §

• status:port-status-specs
  • Created short summaries, added some new abstracts, added references - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/640
  • https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/639
  • https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/638
  • https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/637
  • https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/636
  • https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/635
  • https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/634
  • https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/633
• waku:waku-usage
  • Updated waku2 usage - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/6