roadmap/content/vac/updates/2023-10-09.md

title	tags	date	lastmod	draft
2023-10-09 Vac weekly	vac-updates	2023-10-09	2023-10-09	false

vac:p2p:

• nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport
  • Continued vertical integration of protocols
  • Started DataChannel implementation (last protocol in the stack)
• nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-ddos-mitigation:
  • Merged last part of the ddos mitigation. End of this milestone, next step is to enable in nimbus

vac:tke:

• vac:tke::codex:economic-analysis
  • Codex meeting confirmed for Tuesday, reviewing this week to get in sync on timeline and steps for final delivery (@Matty)
• vac:tke::status:SNT-staking
  • Discuss anonymous user matching proposal with John (@Matty)
  • Complete all edits of all 3 proposals based on John's feedback (@Matty)
  • Improvements to smart contract implementation (claim order dependency), and refactoring, actively working with SC team (@Martin)
  • Finance (Matt Nemer and Adam) asked for refresh of the economic model/projections this month (@Matty)
• vac:tke::nomos:economic-analysis
  • Frederico remains in regular communication with Alvaro and Marcin, continuing on Private Addressing research (@Frederico)

vac:dst:

• analysis-shadow:vac:shadow-gossipsub-analysis
  • Bandwidth analysis with 'plot-shadow' (https://github.com/shadow/shadow/blob/main/src/tools/plot-shadow.py)
  • Temporal graph extraction / analysis of gossipsub node
• wakurtosis:vac:rlog
  • Running new batch of simulations
• analysis:nomos:simulation-analysis
  • work on additional set of analysis and ways to resolve the tree/branch discrepancy; analysis/data collection is priority
  • Adding "realistic" network delays to the simulations is an immense memory hog and DST machine crashed repatedly for days together;
    • special thanks for Jakub for promptly resetting the machine, but it still took days to figure usable parameters
  • Took all week and weekend to get just one run for 10k nodes
• wakurtosis:waku:gossipsub-topology-analysis
  • The CollectNet PR (https://github.com/vacp2p/wakurtosis/pull/143)
• eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test
  • K8s configurations https://github.com/vacp2p/10ksim/issues/1
  • POD limites per node (point 4)
    • Available IPs per node (point 4)
    • Parallelize StatefulSets (point 5)
    • Set second machine as Schedulable
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-js-waku
  • Finished adding new tests for store protocol.
    • Increased coverage from 9 tests to ~60.
    • Discovered several issues/discrepancies that I've raised with the Waku teams.
  • Added small fix for some flaky tests
  • Updated docker hub org from where the tests fetch nwaku/gowaku images
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-nwaku
  • Begin Relay subscribe tests
    • Message id (https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2101)
    • Subscribe WIP (No PR yet)
  • Investigate possible missbehaviours, diving into libp2p code.
  • Open relay subscription bug issue: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2114
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-go-waku
  • Go-waku's test docker registry @quay.io is working well
  • Dockerfile and test container image build workflow tested & merged https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/792
  • Wrote first test and found first bug - fixed by devs already d900a6c814 https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/794

vac:acz:

• zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.4
  • Merged PR https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/217
  • Fixed ffi tests
  • completed release, milestone complete - https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/releases/tag/v0.4.1
• rlnp2p:waku:multi-epoch-constraint
  • Start working on a more concise solution for the problem
• secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
  • Increase the level of detail in the description of the WiP towards the creation of an RFC

vac:sc::

• status:SNT-optimism-bridge
  • Update bridge repo to latest vacp2p/minime dependency
  • Implemented foundry deploy script
  • Custom errors over string messages
  • Token controller rename
• status:community-contracts-ERC20
  • Helped with adding owner/token-master access control
• status:community-curation-contracts
  • Deployed contracts on goerli
• status:community-contracts-maintenance
  • Landed custom minting events
  • update the erc20 contract to have owner/master tokens
  • added CommunityOwnable contract with base auth
  • Fix and update failing tests and deploy erc20 implementation to testnet
  • PR: https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/pull/19

vac:nescience:

• state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc
  • Researching techniques for state separation
  • Started a new document about how to implement state separation
• proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems
  • Finished the document about [Proof Creation and Verification] (Goal 3 for Nescience) - To share soon
  • Still doing some research on how to make Nescience compact for an article
  • Several readings on bulding secure zkVMs
  • Prepared a draft on Starky (https://www.notion.so/zkVM-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#4e5bc7f510c042609139bffd5534e69b)
• proofsystems:vac:benchmarks
  • Added an explanation for Nova-Scotia circuit
  • Prepared poseidon-starky circuit generation part
  • Begin code review for Nova benchmark
  • Continue working on Halo2 benchmark

vac:dr:

• valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc
  • Separating tor context from normal and implemented new PR
  • For over 4 days, monitored attestation success with near zero attestation drop rate, effectiveness varies
  • with opt incl distance, but automatically recovers to 86% on average
• valpriv:vac:tor-push-paper
  • more updates to the paper
• gsub-scaling:vac:unstructured-p2p-improvements-survey
  • pushed the recommended changes for GossipSub improvement blogpost for approval
  • studied different proximity estimation, bandwidth estimation techniques for GossipSub improvements
• gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation
  • Upgraded my system to execute relatively larger networks. Executed relatively larger simulations (upto 9000 nodes) to analyze the impact of D on message spread and the number of messages.
• 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).
  • Adding discussion to the high level protocol document(https://www.notion.so/High-Level-Algorithm-6535ac0363df4629ad2c40dff4bc62cd)
• zk:codex:storage-proofs-open-problems-review
  • Getting up to speed on Codex documents: Balazs' sampling
  • shared minor math error in Discord, Codex's EC requirements, Preventing data loss, Block placement, Compact Proofs of Retrievability, Codex storage proofs rationale

vac:rfc:

• status:port-status-specs
  • merged rfc 65
  • reviewed waku-usage rfc, unclear if the old rfc can be ported as it is no longer relevant
  • PAYLOADs almost done, addressing review comments