---
title: "2023-07-31 Vac weekly"
tags:
  - "vac-updates"
date: 2023-07-31
lastmod: 2023-08-03
draft: false
---

- *vc::Deep Research*
  - milestone (20%, 2023/11/30) paper on gossipsub improvements ready for submission
    - proposed solution section
  - milestone (15%, 2023/08/31) Nimbus Tor-push PoC
    - establishing torswitch and testing code
  - milestone (15%, 2023/11/30) paper on Tor push validator privacy
   - addressed feedback on current version of paper
- *vsu::P2P*
  - nim-libp2p: (100%, 2023/07/31) GossipSub optimizations for ETH's EIP-4844
    - Merged IDontWant (https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/934) & Limit flood publishing (https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/911) 𝕏
    - This wraps up the "mandatory" optimizations for 4844. We will continue working on stagger sending and other optimizations
  - nim-libp2p: (70%, 2023/07/31) WebRTC transport
- *vsu::Tokenomics*
  - admin/misc
    - 2 CCs off for the week
  - milestone (30%, 2023/09/30) Codex economic analysis, Codex token utility, Codex collateral management
  - milestone (50%, 2023/08/30) SNT staking smart contract
  - milestone (50%, 2023/07/14) SNT litepaper
  - milestone (30%, 2023/09/29) Nomos Token: requirements and constraints
- *vsu::Distributed Systems Testing*
  - admin/misc
    - Analysis module extracted from wakurtosis repo (https://github.com/vacp2p/wakurtosis/pull/142, https://github.com/vacp2p/DST-Analysis)
    - hiring
  - milestone (99%, 2023/07/31) Wakurtosis Waku Report
    - Re-run simulations
    - merge Discv5 PR (https://github.com/vacp2p/wakurtosis/pull/129).
    - finalize Wakurtosis Tech Report v2
  - milestone (100%, 2023/07/31) Nomos CI testing
    - delivered first version of Nomos CI integration (https://github.com/vacp2p/wakurtosis/pull/141)
  - milestone (30%, 2023/08/31 gossipsub model: Status control messages
    - Waku model is updated to model topics/content-topics
- *vip::zkVM*
  - milestone(50%, 2023/08/31) background/research on existing proof systems (nova, sangria...)
    - achievment :: nova questions answered (see document in Project: https://www.notion.so/zkVM-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451)
    - Nescience WIP done (to be delivered next week, priority)
    - FHE review (lower prio)
  - milestone (50%, 2023/08/31) new fair benchmarks + recursive implementations
    - Working on discoveries about other benchmarks done on plonky2, starky, and halo2
  - zkvm
  - zerokit
    - fixed ark-circom master 
    - achievment :: publish ark-circom https://crates.io/crates/ark-circom
    - achievment :: publish zerokit_utils https://crates.io/crates/zerokit_utils
    - achievment :: publish rln https://crates.io/crates/rln  (𝕏 jointly with RLNP2P)
- *vip::RLNP2P*
  - milestone (100%, 2023/07/31) RLN-Relay Waku production readiness
    - Updated rln-contract to be more modular - and downstreamed to waku fork of rln-contract - https://github.com/vacp2p/rln-contract and http://github.com/waku-org/waku-rln-contract
    - Deployed to sepolia
    - Fixed rln enabled docker image building in nwaku - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1853
  - zerokit:
    - achievement :: zerokit v0.3.0 release done - https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/releases/tag/v0.3.0  (𝕏 jointly with zkVM)