3.8 KiB

Raw Blame History

title

tags

date

lastmod

draft

2023-08-17 Vac weekly

vac-updates

2023-08-14

2023-08-17

false

Vac Milestones: https://www.notion.so/Vac-Roadmap-907df7eeac464143b00c6f49a20bb632

Vac week 33 August 14th

vsu::P2P

`vac:p2p:nim-libp2p:vac:maintenance`

Improve gossipsub DDoS resistance https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/920
delivered: Perf protocol https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/925
delivered: Test-plans for the perf protocol https://github.com/lchenut/test-plans/tree/perf-nim
Bandwidth estimate as a parameter (waiting for final review) https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/941

`vac:p2p:nim-chronos:vac:maintenance`

delivered: Remove hard-coded ports from test https://github.com/status-im/nim-chronos/pull/429
delivered: fixed flaky test using REUSE_PORT https://github.com/status-im/nim-chronos/pull/438

vsu::Tokenomics

admin/misc:
- (5 CC days off)

`vac:tke::codex:economic-analysis`

Filecoin economic structure and Codex token requirements

`vac:tke::status:SNT-staking`

tests with the contracts

`vac:tke::nomos:economic-analysis`

resume discussions with Nomos team

vsu::Distributed Systems Testing (DST)

`vac:dst:wakurtosis:waku:techreport`

1st Draft of Wakurtosis Research Blog (https://github.com/vacp2p/vac.dev/pull/123)
Data Process / Analysis of Non-Discv5 K13 Simulations (Wakurtosis Tech Report v2.5)

`vac:dst:shadow:vac:basic-shadow-simulation`

Basic Shadow Simulation of a gossipsub node (Setup, 5nodes)

`vac:dst:10ksim:vac:10ksim-bandwidth-test`

Try and plan on how to refactor/generalize testing tool from Codex.
Learn more about Kubernetes

`vac:dst:wakurtosis:nomos:ci-integration_02`

Enable subnetworks
Plan how to use wakurtosis with fixed version

`vac:dst:eng:vac:bundle-simulation-data`

Run requested simulations

vsu:Smart Contracts (SC)

`vac:sc::vac:secureum-upskilling`

Learned about
- cold vs warm storage reads and their gas implications
- UTXO vs account models
- DELEGATECALL vs CALLCODE opcodes, CREATE vs CREATE2 opcodes; Yul Assembly
- Unstructured proxies https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1967
- C3 Linearization https://forum.openzeppelin.com/t/solidity-diamond-inheritance/2694) (Diamond inheritance and resolution)
Uniswap deep dive
Finished Secureum slot 2 and 3

`vac:sc::vac:maintainance/misc`

Introduced Vac's own foundry-template for smart contract projects
- Goal is to have the same project structure across projects
- Github repository: https://github.com/vacp2p/foundry-template

vsu:Applied Cryptogarphy & ZK (ACZ)

vac:acz:zerokit:vac:maintenance
- PR reviews https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/200, https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/201

vip::zkVM

`vac:zkvm::vac:research-existing-proof-systems`

delivered Nescience WIP doc
delivered FHE review
delivered Nova vs Sangria done - Some discussions during the meeting
started HyperNova writeup
started writing a trimmed version of FHE writeup
researched CCS (for HyperNova)
Research Protogalaxy https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1106 and Protostar https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/620.

`vac:zkvm::vac:proof-system-benchmarks`

More work on benchmarks is ongoing
Putting down a document that explains the differences

vc::Deep Research

`vac:dr:valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc`

revised the code for PR

`vac:dr:valpriv:vac:tor-push-relwork`

added section for mixnet, non-Tor/non-onion routing-based anonymity network

`vac:dr:gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation`

Used shadow simulator to run first GossibSub simulation

`vac:dr:gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-tech-report`

Finalized 1st draft of the GossipSub scaling article