Vac 2023/09/04 §
vac:p2p: §
nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-ddos-mitigation
- Opened upstream discussion about gossipsub peer exchange (which is a DDoS vector) 570
nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport
- Hitting roadblocks on DTLS
vac:tke:: §
codex:economic-analysis
- Presenting Filecoin findings to Codex team
- Litepaper: assumptions on collateral
status:SNT-staking
- Highlighted multiple design requirements not met by SC implementation for SC team notion doc
- Open questions w/ John, epoch duration
- Staking governance proposal for when John returns Sep 12
nomos:economic-analysis
- Delegated staking specifications w/Marcin, update for privacy constraints
- Bribery attacks analysis, Moh asked to followup early/mid Sep
waku:economic-analysis
- Formalized RLN thoughts shared w/ Aaryamann, will push for additional feedback once Martin returns
vac:dst: §
analysis:nomos:nomos-simulation-analysis
- Took over data generation on Tuesday
- Found a bug in simulations, working around it
- The comparison runs are now fully automated
- got the first full set of comparison plots: everything appears to be explainable for a fixed probability
- Tree runs now scale to 15k nodes
wakurtosis:vac:retrospective-rlog
- Gather info and wrote summary of why we decided to stop using Kurtosis.
10ksim:vac:10ksim-bandwidth-test
- Code diagrams + structurization
- Chats with Ben (Codex)
wakurtosis:nomos:ci-integration_02
- (hold for now, since we drop Kurtosis; will continue in November once we have the new 10k simulator tool)
software-testing:waku:test-plans
software-testing:waku:test-automation-js-waku
- Made it possible to choose the nwaku version in the js waku github actions workflow by using workflow_dispatch inputs. PR Link
vac:sc:: §
vac:secureum-upskilling
- No progress; busy with
CommunityTokenDeployer contract
status:community-contracts-maintenance
- Gas optimizations in token contracts
- Custom errors vs require string messages PR
- Usage of
immutable properties PR
status:community-contracts-deployer
- Implemented
CommunityTokenDeployer
- Added docs for commuity token deployer contract
status:governance-contract-mvp
- ERC2470 ressurection
- Updated to latest solidity
- Implemented error checking for “already deployed” (saves gas in case of user error)
- Implemented error checking for “successful deploy” (forces gas estimation to successful deploy scenario)
- In progress upgrade on solidity compiler new outputs (from 0.5.11=>0.8.x)
- Research on delegation vs staking contract
vac:acz: §
rlnp2p:waku:membership-management
- fixed makefile target for
rln-keystore-generator - 1960
- log the membership index out upon registration in the
rln-keystore-generator - 1963
rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-enhancments
- rln was enabled by default in the Makefile - fixed - 1964
- ordered pubsub validator execution - 1966
- fixed deserialization of valid merkle roots - 1973
- confirm that the fetched credential from the keystore is registered to the membership set - 1980
- fixed makefile target for zerokit’s
librln.a - 1981
- converted zero-based indexing to 1-based indexing on vacp2p/rln-contract - 28
- downstreamed zero-based indexing to waku-org/waku-rln-contract - 8 -
- deployed new version of the registry contract on sepolia -
0xc04937d502E0ae671cedFC2A0BCD6692055520f3
zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.4
- Merged a PR to deal with
message_id range check 210
- researched
tree_size issue for the 0.4 release
- researched
idCommitment/rateCommitment issue for the 0.4 release
vac:zkvm: §
proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems
proofsystems:vac:proof-system-benchmarks
- Added an introductory section for Benchmark in zk-explorations repo: 10
vac:dr: §
gsub-scaling:vac:unstructured-p2p-improvements-survey
- Completed literature study. Covered article related to overlay design (single tier, multi-tier, hybrid overlays)
- peer selection methodologies, rumor/gossiping protocols, push/pull based publishing approaches, message encoding, probablistic forwarding, overlay optimization, and peer heterogeneity/capacity based roles (super nodes and similar roles)
- Still need to review 1-2 D-regular graph based approaches. Only selected articles are added in zotero (under vacp2p)
valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc
- Debugged various appraoches(tcp, gossip, tor). Triaged why attestations not working
valpriv:vac:tor-push-relwork
- completed related work all
consensus:nomos:carnot-paper
- Publishing the Carnot paper (Done) 2308.16016.pdf
- Begin work on writing up Carnot’s specification in RFC format
consensus:nomos:carnot-bribery-article
consensus:nomos:carnot-vote-2-3rds-vote-aggregation
- Completing the initial design and work on presentation slides. The plan will be to present the initial design on September 6 research call
vac:rfc:rfc: §
status:port-status-specs
- Started porting
6/PAYLOAD to vac RFCs
- Work-in-progress PR is pending here
- This RFC specifically needs a lot of work as it misses a lot of the current payload types
- Updated
61/STATUS-community-history-archives according to feedback comments and landed it
- started porting 16/keycard-usage to Vac (looking into status-go)