2024-04-08 Vac weekly

Vac 2024/04/08 §

general §

• Logos offsite Athens: many Vac CCs are attending

vac:p2p: §

• nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport
  • Merge UPD https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/8
  • Rework Stun https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/9
    • Mandatory for browser to browser
• nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance
  • Find and fix a (nasty) bug in both valueOr/withValue templates
    • PR: https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1079
• nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-stagger-send
  • fix: remove explicit param from GossipSubParams constructor - https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1080
  • Reviewing PRs
  • Working on using gossipsub score to penalize peers when their non-prio queue reaches the limit. No PR yet, only local tests.

vac:tke: §

• admin/misc
  • travelled to All-hands in Athens (Frederico, Martin)
• nomos:mixnet-incentives
  • understodd the parameter that controls the loss of competitiveness experienced by a Sybil attacker (Frederico)
• codex:cdx
  • reviewed materials about Codex in view of next week’s offsite (Frederico)
  • Review open questions and provide input (Martin)
• waku:general-incentives
  • Looking at Swarm city
• waku:rln-membership:
  • Present and collect feedback on the RLN Proposal (draft, Martin)
  • Start a structured discussion and follow-ups based on this document in Athens (Martin)
• status:SNT-staking
  • Meeting the SC team in Athens (Frederico, Martin)
  • Following-up on the org fundraising talks with Carl in Athens (Martin)
• status:L2-deployment
  • Further brainstorming for product differentiation in Athens (Frederico, Martin)

vac:dst: §

• eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test
  • Restart simulations (delayed)
  • Improve scrapping tests (https://github.com/vacp2p/10ksim/pull/20https://github.com/vacp2p/10ksim/pull/20)
  • Add option to download node logs (https://github.com/vacp2p/10ksim/pull/21 after 20 is merged)
  • Finished rebuild of Kubernetes nodes, optimisations
  • Ran various simulations at a few different scales

vac:qa: §

• waku:test-automation-sharding
  • Merged sharding tests PR part 1(@Florin)
  • Sharding tests update PR 1060 - in progress(@Roman)
  • Issue found: subscription to many static sharding topics hangs(@Roman)
• waku:interop-testing
  • Fix broken allure history links(@Florin)
  • Light push tests in progress(@Florin)
  • Issues found:(@Florin)
    • strange errors when light pushing messages with payload >= 300 kb for both nwaku and go-waku
    • lightpush on non subscribed pubsub topic hangs
    • lightpush fails with Failed to request a message push: dial_failure after the peer node restarts
    • missing RequestId field error when lightpush has unexpected payload of content topic
• waku:test-automation-nwaku:
  • Peer & Conn Mgmt testing. Almost finished, need to sort out some issues in a meeting with some waku person.(@Alex)

vac:acz: §

• secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
  • Update the report about vector clocks in reference impplementation of DCGKA.
• zerokit:vac:maintenance
  • continued fixing semaphore related issues

vac:sc:: §

• admin/misc
  • offsite

vac:rfc: §

• admin/misc
  • offsite

vac:dr: §

• gossipsub-improvements-paper
  • Looked into different program control aspects in nim (semaphores, Futures, Queues, Async framework), needed for message staggering
  • Looked into the possible changes required for message staggering (still a work in process)

vac:nes: §

• state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc
  • Worked on the draft of the State Separation PDAGs doc (Moudy)
  • Continued research about accumulators and mutator sets (Moudy)
  • Met with Ugur for PDAGs + Accumulators (Moudy)
  • Drafted list of components (Moudy)
  • Finish the first draft of Mutator set in Notion (Ugur)
  • Checked the page about MMRs and Mutator set that Moudy notion page (Moudy + Ugur)
  • Started to write reports about the candidates of nullifiers for our state separation (Ugur)
  • Update the all-in-one document for state separation and share with Moudy (Ugur + Moudy)
• proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems
  • checked out Sirius code (Rostyslav)
  • continue writing LatticeFold writeup (Rostyslav)
• proofsystems:vac:benchmarks
  • continued working on Mangrove (Marvin)
  • continued conducting server testing, got prelimenary results (Rostysla