--- title: "2024-04-15 Vac weekly" tags: - "vac-updates" date: 2024-04-15 lastmod: 2024-04-15 draft: false --- ## Vac 2024/04/15 ### vac:p2p: - `nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport` - Huge rework on Stun protocol https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/9 (ready for review) - Rework Dtls protocol to take account of the Stun rework https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/10 (ready for review aswell) ### vac:tke: - `admin/misc` - attended the All-hands presentations and discussions (Frederico, Martin) - traveled back from Athens (Frederico, Martin) - `nomos:mixnet-incentives` - presented the current state of the mixnet incentives to the Nomos team (Frederico) - `codex:cdx` - discussed the missing parts of the Tokenomics model in the Codex offsite (Frederico) - discussed Codex L2 use case with Cyprian (Frederico) - discussed Codex tokenomics with Finance team (Frederico) - Review open questions and provide input ahead of the Codex offsite (Martin) - `status:SNT-staking` - discussed staking and aggregation with the SC team (Frederico, Martin) - `waku:general-incentives` - Analyzing the new ideas discovered in Athens - RLN ID and utilization of the payment mechanism for the RLN purchase (Martin) - `waku:rln-membership:` - follow-ups based on the discussion in Athens (Martin) - `status:L2-deployment` - Meeting and brainstorming with Cyprian in Athens (Martin, Frederico) ### vac:dst: - `admin/misc` - Various contributors @ Athens for Logos Offsite - Collaborations with Codex - node designs (incl. pricing) - collateral scaling mechanisms ("dynamic collateral") - Talked with Nomos about testing mixnet and graph visualisation - Discussed Nomos testing and DST service needs - Met with Yiannis from Probe Lab - Exploring areas to collab; focus was on partnerships, what areas DST can help with, "low/zero cost" knowledge exchange - Team: Discussed future directions, next few weeks to months worth of work - `eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test` - Investiage the usage of kustomize for deployment - Update scrapper test and utils merged https://github.com/vacp2p/10ksim/pull/20 Pod log downloader to be merged now https://github.com/vacp2p/10ksim/pull/21 - Multiple attempted runs towards 10K - First successful 10K run 2024-04-15 10:30am in Athens at 10,847 nodes - Improvements: - enable NUMA support in VMs for better scale - all nodes now boot automatically as lab comes up - Implemented critical improvements to large scale simulations [per Calico team](https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/issues/8676#issuecomment-2049248770). - Meetings with Waku team - Talked about next deliverables and checked their paper about Waku - Discussed Nwaku vs go-waku CPU usage and scalability, needs; potential waku network sharding strategy (dynamic sharding); current Waku testing results, future needs - Discussed need for Waku tracing - need to be able to output a simple Received message ID: messageID message from Waku to stdout.Met with Ivan (Waku) - `:vac:lab` - Scaling improvements, added 3 hosts, improved power distribution, migrated all hosts to OVS, Codex preparation work, NVMe install + debug. ### vac:qa: - `waku:interop-testing` - Light push [tests merged](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/27)(@Florin) - Store [draft pr](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/31)(@Florin) - Issues found: - contentTopic naming not consistent in the store response where is's [content_topic](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2582)(@Florin) - node doesn't store messages if [relay is disabled](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2586)(@Florin) - failed to negotiate protocol: protocols not supported: [/vac/waku/store/2.0.0-beta4] when the peer node has [store disabled](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/1087)(@Florin) - `waku:test-automation-sharding` - Sharding [tests update](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1060)(@Roman) - Closed subscription to many static sharding topics [hangs](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/1077)(@Roman) - Issue found: message won't be sent over from node1 to node2 with [sharded topic subscription](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/1086)(@Roman) - `waku:maintenance-nwaku` - Add ARM64 Docker support for [Linux/MacOS](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2580)(@Roman) - `waku:test-automation-rln` - RLN relay tests draft [PR](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/30)(@Roman) - `admin/misc` - Offsite(@Alex) ### vac:acz: Last week: - `zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.5` - [planning issue](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/issues/237) for zerokit v0.5.0 - wip: remove [tree height 32 resources](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/issues/237) - `rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-enhancements` - brought down tree sync time by [parallelizing rpc calls](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2577) - `secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat` - Planning for [Secure channels with Ethereum](https://notes.status.im/y06gC9QRRxCfg_DGRrMikg?view#Action-Points) - Research on [possible solutions]( https://www.notion.so/DCGKA-Specification-5a0b67a3ce674ae3a5220b560015cd2c?pvs=4#f8c2ac58347c483b9b451be3ad69cda6) to metadata management in DCGKA (use of UPKE and stealth addresses) - Idea: [zk-MLS](https://www.notion.so/zk-MLS-c8c8e0fc115645bd906d530b04dcc22b?pvs=4) - `admin/misc` - Discussions at Logos All hands offsite with various projects on how the ACZ team plugs into their research & engineering - First Vac ACZ offsite, [meeting notes](https://notes.status.im/y06gC9QRRxCfg_DGRrMikg?view#Action-Points). Planning for Secure channels with Ethereum done. - most CCs ooo after travel from All hands offsit ### vac:sc:: - `vac:maintainance/misc` - Logos All-Hands Offsite - See notes: https://notes.status.im/et-wl6KFTYW4bjtKUpM5tw?view#SC1 - Swap Aggregator Research - Airswap Research notes - https://notes.status.im/fJ2YoaiBS4qd94RtK2zHJA?view ### vac:rfc: - `waku:core-rfc-updates` - Worked on rln relay and waku executables for waku-rln-relay, will be creating a new pr next week - `misc` - reviewed rfc-website, found new problems and open web development tickets with acid-in - `nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-stagger-send` - feat: behaviour penalty when non-priority queue reaches maxNumElementsInNonPriorityQueue https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1083 - `nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance` - update libp2p branch when unstable changes https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/6202 - Openend issue peer doesn't respect backingOff https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/issues/1084 - Coding interview - Reviewing PRs ### vac:dr: - `unstructured-p2p-improvements-survey` - Looked into the gossip issue regarding large number of small messages in farcaster network - Looked into different gossipsub specifications/discussions etc. - `gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation` - Worked on message forwarding from priority/non-priority queues for possible performance improvements and message staggering. Still a work in progress. Expected to complete in this weak. ### vac:nes: - `admin/misc` - Moudy + Marvin all week @ All hands offsite - Ugur 2 days off + 1 day @ACZ offsite - `state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc` - Created a draft about the possible usages of Mutator sets in our nullifier systems [in notion](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#68f6838591304d7397a01e8cdc8aa877) (Ugur) - `proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems` - checked out [Sirius code](https://github.com/snarkify/sirius) (Rostyslav) - continue writing [LatticeFold writeup](https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257.pdf) (Rostyslav)