--- title: "2023-10-23 Vac weekly" tags: - "vac-updates" date: 2023-10-23 lastmod: 2023-10-23 draft: false --- ### vac:p2p: - `admin` - restructure - `nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance` - Find a fix for https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2140 - PR: `Test: Remove workflow for Nim Devel from "Daily"` https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/968 - nim devel test will still be run daily, but in a separate CI workflow - `nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport` - Successfully compile the full stack and start debugging. - `nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-ddos-mitigation` - https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/965 - `nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance` - Add arm64 support when running HP tests locally - https://github.com/libp2p/test-plans/pull/311 and https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/pull/4687. (This is a blocker for: Add Hole Punching to libp2p test-plans - https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/issues) ### vac:tke: - `vac:tke::codex:economic-analysis` - Updating Codex "growth model" and migrating litepaper to notion w/ Codex feedback (@Matty) - Providing fundraise (Matt Nemer) w/ high level summary of financials and token design (@Matty) - `vac:tke::status:SNT-staking` - Helping John with final preparation for website launch, setting up Snapshot space (@Martin) - Ongoing w/ SC team for staking contract implementation (@Martin) - Discussed "growth model" (economic projections) w/ John, Chandler, and finance, aligning w/ Chandlers model (@Matty) - `vac:tke::nomos:economic-analysis` - Finished drafting high level proposals on Private Addressing research, reviewing w/ Marcin (@Frederico) - Returning to native delegated staking research, based on recent developments in ETH and Lido (@Fredico) - `vac:tke::waku:economic-analysis` - Joining Waku Reseach Sync calls going forward to stay up to date on progress w/ Sergei (@Martin) - Reviewing Sergei's notes so far on waku-org/research, and completing followup requests from Aaryaman and Sergei ### vac:dst: - `wakurtosis:vac:rlog` - Pushed changes with new results (https://github.com/vacp2p/vac.dev/commit/c67ea09ac17a6049529983ef325ae4d9c6c24e2d) - `analysis-shadow:waku:shadow-waku-relay-analysis` - Investigating best approach for large scale (new wakunode2 with traffic vs external RPC calls) - `eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test` - Fix problem in multicloud-cluster: - https://github.com/status-im/infra-misc/issues/184 - https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/discussions/8657 - Check Prometheus metrics - `software-testing:waku:test-automation-js-waku` - New tests: - [Relay](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1649) - awaiting review - Improvements: - Test report dashboard. [PR](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1668) and [deployment](https://waku-org.github.io/allure-jswaku/5700/#) - awaiting review - Issues found: - Nwaku [regression](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2147) around store cursor - JS-waku possible issue around duplicate messages - `software-testing:waku:test-automation-nwaku` - Issues - Resubscription SEGFAULT - Reinvestigated and found it was a test case error, a `futures` issue. - Closed [Ticket](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2114) - Publishing multiple messages in a row triggers the same SEGFAULT as when refreshing a subscription. - Same as above - Max message sizes don't match RFC - Reinvesitgated because some sizes weren't correct. - Opened [Ticket](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2146) - After stopping and restarting a relay node, it can't reconnect with connectRelay. - Reinvestigated because a comment by Aaryamann. - Opened [Ticket](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2145) - Began implementing Store tests. - Got a working GDB for NIM with VSCode integration. Not great, but it's something. - Cleaned up Filter and Relay tests, and added missing payload size tests. - [PR](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2138 - `software-testing:waku:test-automation-go-waku` - Wrote five tests - were added to the branch https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/tree/chore(filterV2)-test-updates - Reported issue "Subscription with empty contentTopic should fail" https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/810 - Retested issues #804 and #810 - learned a lot from Prem Prathi ### vac:acz: - `rlnp2p:waku:rln-doc-and-outreach` - continued work on rlog, improvements - progcrypto sync with pse, presentation work - https://hackmd.io/wS2MAfSvSK-tnxzcriah9A - `admin/misc` - supporting DST, working on waku relay segfault, resolved - `secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat` - Include some considerations on the extension to group chat revolving around asynchronous ratcheting trees. - Start writing the raw version of the RFC. - https://www.notion.so/WiP-Secure-Ethereum-Chat-f69ff155456c4fdeb719aba96fd7a - `zerokit:vac:maintenance` - prepared refactoring PR (https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/219) ### vac:sc:: - `status:community-curation-contracts` - Adjusted deploy script to mint mock SNT token on local node (this was needed for testing purposes) - PR: https://github.com/status-im/community-dapp/pull/80 - Fixed deployment script to ensure directory contracts are set in voting contracts - https://github.com/status-im/community-dapp/pull/81 - Fixed deployment that ensures `Multicall2` is available on local nodes as well as references for production networks - PR: https://github.com/status-im/community-dapp/pull/82 - `vac:sc::status:snt-staking-contract_02` - Implement missing checks for staking lockup period - PR: https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/39 ### vac:nescience: - `state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc` - Researching techniques for state separation and how to integrate different models. - Researched and [posted a document](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#d75a43599f3f45d6a838527a403d9c39) on Verkle tree. - Began research on ring signatures ([DualRing](https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1213.pdf) and [DualDory](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1177)) (doc pending) - `proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems` - Published a new document about [Proof Creation and Verification](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#02b7fdf29dac4dc18b3f15b756c7da57) - `proofsystems:vac:benchmarks` - Started a draft for an article (overleaf) - applied feedback for the Nova-Scotia PR - Wrote the halo2 aggregation circuit (issues with testing, need more CPU power, will use DST server) ### vac:dr: - `valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc` - Scaled up execution of TEN multiple simultanesous torpush-validators with near zero attestation misses - Gathering measurements from other fleet nodes (blocked at) - `valpriv:vac:tor-push-paper` - Added more graphs, completed abstract, comparisons in the paper. - Still reviewing new paper to incorporate https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/on-the-anonymity-guarantees-of-anonymous-proof-of-stake-protocols - `gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation` - Modified large message handling mechanism (outlined below) for GossipSub. - Now we send large message to randomly selected (dlow-1) peers. - Remaining peers get idontwant message - Missed out nodes use iwant message to pull the missing large message - Approximately 20-25% overall message reduction achieved and 1/2 RTT latency increased for approximately 5% nodes - `gsub-scaling:vac:unstructured-p2p-improvements-survey` - Started following discussions for current gossipsub improvement direcetions - Writing the pseudocode and addressed comments from Nomos team (https://github.com/logos-co/nomos-specs/blob/Carnot-vote-aggregation/carnot/carnot-vote-aggregation.py). - Responded to questions raised in the high level protocol document (https://www.notion.so/High-Level-Algorithm-6535ac0363df4629ad2c40dff4bc62cd) by the nomos team. ### vac:rfc: - `status:port-status-specs` - waku usage rfc - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/627