2023-09-11 Vac weekly

vac:p2p: §

• nim-libp2p:vac:maintenance:
  • IWANT splitting now ready for review
• nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-ddos-mitigation
  • Traffic scoring now ready for review
  • Pursuing upstream discussions about gossipsub Peer Exchange
• nim-chronos:vac:maintenance:
  • Continued https://github.com/status-im/nim-chronos/pull/418

vac:tke: §

• vac:tke::status:SNT-staking
  • Write first draft of staking governance proposal
  • standby to hear SC team questions
• vac:tke::nomos:economic-analysis
  • Analysis of rewards for delegation vs validation

vac:dst: §

• wakurtosis:vac:rlog
  • Address PR feedback (https://github.com/vacp2p/vac.dev/pull/123)
• wakurtosis:waku:techreport_03
  • batch of simulation data with 0 msg/s rate.
• wakurtosis:vac:retrospective-rlog
  • Started draft/planning of document
• eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test
  • Working on adding an intermediate layer between services (Codex) and framework.
• wakurtosis:waku:techreport_02
• software-testing:waku:test-plans
  • Minor tweaks/updates on the filter test plan
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-js-waku
  • Created draft PR with ~60 new tests + refactoring for Filter protocol (https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1552)
  • Worked with Vaclav to run js-waku tests automatically in the nwaku CI.
    • Tests will run against the nwaku node built for the PR that triggers the CI + jswaku from master (nwaku PR: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2006) (js-waku PR: https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1541)
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-nwaku
  • Get acquainted with codebase, tests, rfcs, and nim.
  • start implementing first set of tests (Filter/SUBSCRIBER_PING).
• vac:dst:analysis:nomos:nomos-simulation-analysis
  • Done first set of runs for different probabilities; a run takes 2+ days
  • The tree simulation now scales to 30k nodes!
  • Branch runs are now fully automated
• vac:dst:wakurtosis:waku:topology-analysis
  • tried json RPC under shadow (worked as expected); the RPC appears a bit faster compared to wakurtosis
  • Waku network collection PR done : https://github.com/vacp2p/wakurtosis/pull/143

vac:acz: §

• rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-enhancments
  • if only one key exists in the keystore, use it - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1984
  • fix log levels for some logs - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1986
  • updated documentation for rln-relay - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1993
  • clean nullifier table every MaxEpochGap - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1994
  • created rln_db_inspector tool, allows inspection into merkle tree structure - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1999, https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2012
  • fixed missing memberships between history sync and new memberships sync with @alrevuelta - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2015
  • remove rln from waku’s experimental features - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2001
  • fix metric calculation for registered members - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2018
  • uups proxy for waku-rln-registry - https://github.com/waku-org/waku-rln-contract/pull/9
• zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.4
  • fetched artifacts from trusted setup completion, generated verfication keys and circuit’s wasm files
  • for some reason, the proof verification always results in false, needs further investigation. working branch - https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/211
  • Created and merged a PR to fix test failings https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/212
  • Reaserched test failures with new artifacts

vac:sc: §

• status:snt-staking-contract-maintenance
  • Prepared a pull request that migrates the code base to our foundry template: Pull Request #6
• status:community-contracts-deployer
  • Refactored CommunityTokenDeployer contract to make use of token factory contracts: Pull Request #2
  • Updated documentation and visuals according to code changes: Pull Request #4
• vac:maintainance/misc
  • Added support for codecoverage analysis in our foundry template: PR: https://github.com/vacp2p/foundry-template/pull/6
  • Added basic deployment config to our template: PR: https://github.com/vacp2p/foundry-template/pull/5
  • Added slither support: PR: https://github.com/vacp2p/foundry-template/pull/4
  • added a new resource to the Smart Contract notion section about gas optimizations

vac:zkvm: §

• proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems
  • Addressed some questions regarding Nescience.
  • Worked on compressing informations in Nescience for a future publication.
  • Continued research on Jolt
  • Continued writing a paper on Lasso (https://www.notion.so/zkVM-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#025f586e7e4c46818a0e0a1ab9a79c20)
  • Attended webinars for Open Talk: Zero Knowledge (recorded talks)
  • Update Halo2 notes
• proofsystems:vac:benchmarks
  • Published a complete section on Github regarding Benchmarks (https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/blob/main/benchmarks.md).
  • work on Halo2 benchmark implementation
  • Nova Circom: done, Nova-Scotia: there is a part left

vac:dr: §

• valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc
  • Completed the tor based gossipsub instance broadcas; the first working POC. Overcame, triaged several issues https://github.com/vacp2p/nimbus-eth2-experimental/issues/1
    • first running tor-push nimbus validator
• valpriv:vac:tor-push-paper
  • changes to introduction, solution section, removed not in scope papers
• gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation
  • Worked on adding staggered sending suppoort in Gossipsub (still working on it)
  • Formalized and improved simulation scripts for GossipSub behavior against large messages.
• consensus:nomos:carnot-paper
  • Work on writing up Carnot’s specification in RFC format (https://github.com/logos-co/nomos-specs/blob/RFC/carnot/spec.md)
• consensus:nomos:carnot-vote-2-3rds-vote-aggregation
  • Work on presentation slides for Sep. 6 research call. (slides can be found at: https://www.notion.so/Roadmap-Deep-Research-DR-561a864c890549c3861bf52ab979d7ab?pvs=4#d1d3033792b443f39e47955721f9db52)
  • Begin to write down the high level protocol.(https://www.notion.so/High-Level-Algorithm-6535ac0363df4629ad2c40dff4bc62cd)

vc::rfc: §

• status:port-status-specs
  • Kicked off discussion with “stakeholders” about 6/PAYLOAD spec and how it should be ported/maintained
  • started porting parts of 6/PAYLOAD
  • Ported 16/keycard-usage to 63/status-keycard-usage - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/615