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nim-libp2p:vac:maintenance:
- Fixed gossipsub Direct Peers
- Continued cross-libp2p perf implementation
nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-ddos-mitigation
- Open eth specs issue about disabling gossipsub Peer Exchange
nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport
- Fixed the blocking DTLS issue, continuing vertical implementation

vac:tke::codex:economic-analysis
- Review litepaper feedback w/ Codex and identify steps to finalize Codex tokenomics
vac:tke::status:SNT-staking
- Review staking governance proposal w/John in Status call
vac:tke::nomos:economic-analysis
- Analysis of rewards for delegation vs validation
- Researching ETH 2.0 emission decision rationales

wakurtosis:waku:techreport_03 & wakurtosis:vac:rlog
- Analysis of the non-load simulations (0msgs to isolate discv5 effects)
- Recaculated efficiencies taking into account message counts instead of expectation
- Generated new efficiency plots; Re-written discussion to account for the latter
eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test
- Created new repo for Python tool (https://github.com/vacp2p/10ksim)
- Kubernetes configuration and documentation (https://github.com/vacp2p/10ksim/issues/1)
software-testing:waku:test-automation-js-waku
- Addressed comments and merged the Filter protocol tests PR (https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1552)
- Created new PR with ~40 new lightpush tests (https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1571)
- Extract the testing parts of js-waku CI into reusable workflows that can be easily called cross-repo (https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1566)
- Improved the retry-on-fail mechanism of the js-waku tests (https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1573)
software-testing:waku:test-automation-nwaku
- Finished implementing waku filter ping tests; PR
- Implemented waku filter subscribe tests; Found first two wrong/unclear behaviours due to tests; PR 1; PR 2
- Checking existing tests and removing legacy/duplicated.
- Began implementing waku filter client error tests

zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.4
- Prepared a PR to fix test_recover_id_secret test due to incorrect serialization https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/217
- Fixed serialization in other tests
secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
- Getting familiar with some of the protocols, namely: X3DH, Double Ratchet, XEdDSA and Noise.
- Start defining the requirements of the secure chat protocol.
rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-enhancments
- updated submodule, fixed metric - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2024
rlnp2p:waku:rln-doc-and-outreach
- updated nwaku pre-requisites docs for rln - https://github.com/waku-org/docs.waku.org/pull/115
zerokit:vac:maintenance
- exposed leaves_set api to count the number of insertions into the tree - https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/213
- optimized the batch insert to reduce insertion times - https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/215
zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.4
- still continuing to investigate proof verification failures. headway made, the root that the proof has is != the tree root produced by zerokit.

proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems
- Worked on the motivation of Goal 1: Why separate state is more beneficial (Document next week)
- Started a somehow scientific article format for Nescience
- Finished a writeup on Lasso https://www.notion.so/zkVM-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#e563de6778b04479a7936e2c5664c9ec
- Started writing a writeup on Jolt
- Update Logos slides for presentation on 9/20. (link pending)
- Begin research recproof
proofsystems:vac:benchmarks
- Finished Nova benchmark that uses Nova-Scotia https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/13
- Started working on Nova benchmark that uses bellman (original/default way to do things in Nova)
- Worked on Halo2 benchmarks

valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc
- Extraced latency of attestations sent from gossip_sub debug level logs
- Collected around 150 or more latencies of attestations, both for normal and tor switch
- Validated tor-circuit formation on validator machine
valpriv:vac:tor-push-paper
- Revised the structure of paper, added mathematical definition
gsub-scaling:vac:unstructured-p2p-improvements-survey
- The first draft of survey is ready for review
gossipsub-improvements-paper
- Incorporated changes to the first draft of the improvement paper. Still a work in process. -consensus:nomos:carnot-vote-2-3rds-vote-aggregation
- Writing the psuedocode (https://github.com/logos-co/nomos-specs/blob/Carnot-vote-aggregation/carnot/carnot-vote-aggregation.py).
- Added discussion and committee merging algorithm to the high level protocol document(https://www.notion.so/High-Level-Algorithm-6535ac0363df4629ad2c40dff4bc62cd)

status:port-status-specs
- continued discussion of the PAYLOAD RFC; continue working on updating the RFC