--- title: "2023-12-04 Vac weekly" tags: - "vac-updates" date: 2023-12-04 lastmod: 2023-12-04 draft: false --- ### 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](https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/995) [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](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/6): - covers subscribe creation and update - reached [67 tests](https://waku-org.github.io/waku-interop-tests/67/) - Issue reported gowaku: encoding/hex: odd length hex string [error when subscribing](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/928) - Issue reported nwaku: pubsubTopic not required as described in the [specs](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/22) - `software-testing:waku:test-automation-nwaku` - Begin lightpush tests [PR - WIP](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2269) - Found a Lightpush.publish attribute type bug [Issue](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2253) - `direction` attribute related functionality - [PR](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2263) - Refactor from `ascending` to `direction` for consistency - `HistoryQuery.direction` Default value fix - `direction` attribute from `bool` to `enum` - Merged [PR](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2234) - `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)](https://www.notion.so/WiP-The-differences-between-TreeKEM-3-and-ADKG-2-39fb053c53c1450d907e8345a8f7308e?pvs=4) - `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)](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#d75a43599f3f45d6a838527a403d9c39) - Begin to survey newer PCSs to see if any may yield better results than KZG. [1](https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/420.pdf), [2](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/917), [3](https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1043.pdf) - Begin reading [VM SMT](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1762.pdf) - 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)](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#30af77482f38414f8436f81d3b5e59af) ### 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