Last week

• vc
  • Vac day in Paris (13th)
• vc::Deep Research
  • working on comprehensive current/related work study on Validator Privacy
  • working on PoC of Tor push in Nimbus: setting up goerli nim-eth2 node
  • working towards comprehensive current/related work study on gossipsub scaling
• vsu::P2P
  • Paris offsite Paris (all CCs)
• vsu::Tokenomics
  • Bugs found and solved in the SNT staking contract
  • attend events in Paris
• vsu::Distributed Systems Testing
  • Events in Paris
  • QoS on all four infras
  • Continue work on theoretical gossipsub analysis (varying regular graph sizes)
  • Peer extraction using WLS (almost finished)
  • Discv5 testing
  • Wakurtosis CI improvements
  • Provide offline data
• vip::zkVM
  • onboarding new researcher
  • Prepared and presented ZKVM work during VAC offsite
  • Deep research on Nova vs Stark in terms of performance and related open questions
  • researching Sangria
  • Worked on NEscience document (Nescience-WIP-0645c738eb7a40869d5650ae1d5a4f4e)
  • zerokit:
    • worked on PR for arc-circom
• vip::RLNP2P
  • offsite Paris

This week

• vc
• vc::Deep Research
  • working on comprehensive current/related work study on Validator Privacy
  • working on PoC of Tor push in Nimbus
  • working towards comprehensive current/related work study on gossipsub scaling
• vsu::P2P
  • EthCC & Logos event Paris (all CCs)
• vsu::Tokenomics
  • Attend EthCC and side events in Paris
  • Integrate staking contracts with radCAD model
  • Work on a new approach for Codex collateral problem
• vsu::Distributed Systems Testing
  • Events in Paris
  • Finish peer extraction, plot the peer connections; script/runs for the analysis, and add data to the Tech Report
  • Restructure the Analysis script and start modelling Status control messages
  • Split Wakurtosis analysis module into separate repository (delayed)
  • Deliver simulation results (incl fixing discv5 error with new Kurtosis version)
  • Second iteration Nomos CI
• vip::zkVM
  • Continue researching on Nova open questions and Sangria
  • Draft the benchmark document (by the end of the week)
  • research hardware for benchmarks
  • research Halo2 cont’
  • zerokit:
    • merge a PR for deployment of arc-circom
    • deal with arc-circom master fail
• vip::RLNP2P
  • offsite paris
• blockers
  • vip::zkVM:zerokit: ark-circom deployment to crates io; contact to ark-circom team