roadmap/content/vac/updates/2023-09-04.md

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Vac 2023/09/04

vac:p2p:

  • nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-ddos-mitigation
  • nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport
    • Hitting roadblocks on DTLS

vac:tke::

  • codex:economic-analysis
    • Presenting Filecoin findings to Codex team
    • Litepaper: assumptions on collateral
  • status:SNT-staking
    • Highlighted multiple design requirements not met by SC implementation for SC team notion doc
    • Open questions w/ John, epoch duration
    • Staking governance proposal for when John returns Sep 12
  • nomos:economic-analysis
    • Delegated staking specifications w/Marcin, update for privacy constraints
    • Bribery attacks analysis, Moh asked to followup early/mid Sep
  • waku:economic-analysis
    • Formalized RLN thoughts shared w/ Aaryamann, will push for additional feedback once Martin returns

vac:dst:

  • analysis:nomos:nomos-simulation-analysis
    • Took over data generation on Tuesday
    • Found a bug in simulations, working around it
    • The comparison runs are now fully automated
    • got the first full set of comparison plots: everything appears to be explainable for a fixed probability
    • Tree runs now scale to 15k nodes
  • wakurtosis:vac:retrospective-rlog
    • Gather info and wrote summary of why we decided to stop using Kurtosis.
  • 10ksim:vac:10ksim-bandwidth-test
    • Code diagrams + structurization
    • Chats with Ben (Codex)
  • wakurtosis:nomos:ci-integration_02
    • (hold for now, since we drop Kurtosis; will continue in November once we have the new 10k simulator tool)
  • software-testing:waku:test-plans
  • software-testing:waku:test-automation-js-waku
    • Made it possible to choose the nwaku version in the js waku github actions workflow by using workflow_dispatch inputs. PR Link

vac:sc::

  • vac:secureum-upskilling
    • No progress; busy with CommunityTokenDeployer contract
  • status:community-contracts-maintenance
    • Gas optimizations in token contracts
      • Custom errors vs require string messages PR
      • Usage of immutable properties PR
  • status:community-contracts-deployer
    • Implemented CommunityTokenDeployer
    • Added docs for commuity token deployer contract
  • status:governance-contract-mvp
    • ERC2470 ressurection
      • Updated to latest solidity
      • Implemented error checking for "already deployed" (saves gas in case of user error)
      • Implemented error checking for "successful deploy" (forces gas estimation to successful deploy scenario)
      • In progress upgrade on solidity compiler new outputs (from 0.5.11=>0.8.x)
    • Research on delegation vs staking contract

vac:acz:

vac:zkvm:

vac:dr:

  • gsub-scaling:vac:unstructured-p2p-improvements-survey
    • Completed literature study. Covered article related to overlay design (single tier, multi-tier, hybrid overlays)
    • peer selection methodologies, rumor/gossiping protocols, push/pull based publishing approaches, message encoding, probablistic forwarding, overlay optimization, and peer heterogeneity/capacity based roles (super nodes and similar roles)
    • Still need to review 1-2 D-regular graph based approaches. Only selected articles are added in zotero (under vacp2p)
  • valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc
    • Debugged various appraoches(tcp, gossip, tor). Triaged why attestations not working
  • valpriv:vac:tor-push-relwork
    • completed related work all
  • consensus:nomos:carnot-paper
  • consensus:nomos:carnot-bribery-article
  • consensus:nomos:carnot-vote-2-3rds-vote-aggregation
    • Completing the initial design and work on presentation slides. The plan will be to present the initial design on September 6 research call

vac:rfc:rfc:

  • status:port-status-specs
    • Started porting 6/PAYLOAD to vac RFCs
      • Work-in-progress PR is pending here
      • This RFC specifically needs a lot of work as it misses a lot of the current payload types
    • Updated 61/STATUS-community-history-archives according to feedback comments and landed it
    • started porting 16/keycard-usage to Vac (looking into status-go)