2023-08-21 Vac weekly

Vac Milestones: https://www.notion.so/Vac-Roadmap-907df7eeac464143b00c6f49a20bb632 Vac Github Repos: https://www.notion.so/Vac-Repositories-75f7feb3861048f897f0fe95ead08b06

Vac week 34 August 21th §

vsu::P2P §

• vac:p2p:nim-libp2p:vac:maintenance
  • Test-plans for the perf protocol (99%: need to find why the executable doesn’t work) https://github.com/libp2p/test-plans/pull/262
  • WebRTC: Merge all protocols (60%: slowed down by some complications and bad planning with Mbed-TLS) https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/3
  • WebRTC: DataChannel (25%)

vsu::Tokenomics §

• admin/misc:
  • (3 CC days off)
• vac:tke::codex:economic-analysis
  • Call w/ Codex on token incentives, business analysis of Filecoin
• vac:tke::status:SNT-staking
  • Bug fixes for tests for the contracts
• vac:tke::nomos:economic-analysis
  • Narrowed focus to: 1) quantifying bribery attacks, 2) assessing how to min risks and max privacy of delegated staking
• vac:tke::waku:economic-analysis
  • Caught up w/ Waku team on RLN, adopting a proactive effort to pitch them solutions

vsu::Distributed Systems Testing (DST) §

• vac:dst:wakurtosis:vac:rlog
  • Pushed second draft and figures (https://github.com/vacp2p/vac.dev/tree/DST-Wakurtosis)
• vac:dst:shadow:vac:basic-shadow-simulation
  • Run 10K simulation of basic gossipsub node
• vac:dst:gsub-model:status:control-messages
  • Got access to status superset
• vac:dst:analysis:nomos:nomos-simulation-analysis
  • Basic CLI done, json to csv, can handle 10k nodes
• vac:dst:wakurtosis:waku:topology-analysis
  • Collection + analysis: now supports all waku protocols, along with relay
  • Cannot get gossip-sub peerage from waku or prometheus (working on getting info from gossipsub layer)
• vac:dst:wakurtosis:waku:techreport_02
  • Merged 4 pending PRs; master now supports regular graphs
• vac:dst:eng:vac:bundle-simulation-data
  • Run 1 and 10 rate simulations. 100 still being run
• vac:dst:10ksim:vac:10ksim-bandwidth-test
  • Working on split the structure of codex tool; Working on diagrams also

vsu:Smart Contracts (SC) §

• vac:sc::status:community-contracts-ERC721
  • delivered (will need maintenance and adding features as requested in the future)
• vac:sc::status:community-contracts-ERC20
  • started working on ERC20 contracts
• vac:sc::vac:secureum-upskilling
  • Secureum: Finished Epoch 0, Slot 4 and 5
  • Deep dive on First Depositor/Inflation attacks
  • Learned about Minimal Proxy Contract pattern
  • More Uniswap V2 protocol reading
• vac:sc::vac:maintainance/misc
  • Worked on moving community dapp contracts to new foundry-template

vsu:Applied Cryptogarphy & ZK (ACZ) §

• vac:acz:rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-enhancments
  • rpc handler for waku rln relay - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1852
  • fixed ganache’s change in method to manage subprocesses, fixed timeouts related to it - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1913
  • should error out on rln-relay mount failure - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1904
  • fixed invalid start index being used in rln-relay - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1915
  • constrain the values that can be used as idCommitments in the rln-contract - https://github.com/vacp2p/rln-contract/pull/26
  • assist with waku-simulator testing
  • remove registration capabilities from nwaku, it should be done out of band - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1916
  • add deployedBlockNumber to the rln-contract for ease of fetching events from the client - https://github.com/vacp2p/rln-contract/pull/27
• vac:acz:zerokit:vac:maintenance
  • exposed seq_atomic_operation ffi api to allow users to make use of the current index without making multiple ffi calls - https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/206
  • use pmtree instead of vacp2p_pmtree now that changes have been upstreamed - https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/203
  • Prepared a PR to fix a stopgap introduces by PR 201 https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/207
  • PR review https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/202, https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/206
• vac:acz:zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.4
  • substitute id_commitments for rate_commitments and update tests in rln-v2 - https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/205
  • rln-v2 working branch - https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/204
  • misc research while ooo:
  • stealth commitment scheme inspired by erc-5564 - https://github.com/rymnc/erc-5564-bn254, associated circuit - https://github.com/rymnc/circom-rln-erc5564 (very heavy on the constraints)

vip::zkVM §

• vac:zkvm::vac:research-existing-proof-systems
  • Updated the Nova questions document (https://www.notion.so/zkVM-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451 -> Projects -> Nova_Research_Answers.pdf)
  • Researched ProtoStar and Nova aleternatives
• vac:zkvm::vac:proof-system-benchmarks
  • Drafted the Nova Benchamarks document (https://www.notion.so/zkVM-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451 -> Projects -> Benchmarks.pdf)
  • Researched hash functions
  • Researched benchmarks

vc::Deep Research §

• vac:dr:valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc
  • Reimplemented torpush without any gossip sharing
  • Added discovering peers for torpush in every epoch/10 minutes
  • torswitch directly pushes messages to separately identified peers
• vac:dr:valpriv:vac:tor-push-relwork
  • added quantified measures related to privacy in the paper section
• vac:dr:gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-tech-report
  • Explored different unstructured p2p application architectuture
  • Studied literature on better bandwidth utilization in unstructured p2p networks.
• vac:dr:gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation
  • Worked on GossibSup simulation in shadow simulator. Tried understanding different libp2p functions
  • Created short awk scripts for analyzing results.
• vac:dr:consensus:nomos:carnot-bribery-article
  • Continue work on the article on bribery attacks, PoS and Carnot
  • Completed presentation about the bribery attacks and Carnot
• vac:dr:consensus:nomos:carnot-paper
  • Discussed Carnot tests and results with Nomos team. Some adjustment to the parameters needed to be made to accurate results.