roadmap/content/vac/updates/2024-04-22.md

title	tags	date	lastmod	draft
2024-04-22 Vac weekly	vac-updates	2024-04-22	2024-04-22	false

Vac 2024/04/22

vac:p2p:

• nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport
  • review stun pr
  • Address comments on STUN protocol
  • Research on ICE protocol
  • Start implementing ICE protocol
• nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance
  • use a mock rng in tests https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1085
  • debug ping interop test

vac:tke:

• codex:cdx
  • reviewed Codex priority list and document outcomes (Frederico)
  • read the whitepaper (Frederico)
  • caught up with Wings' proposal for collateral incentive model (Frederico)
  • Reviewing Codex offsite outcomes and reading the whitepaper (Martin)
• nomos:mixnet-incentives
  • caught up with the current state with Marcin (Frederico)
  • concluded analysis of parameter to control competitiveness loss of sybil attackers
• status:L2-deployment
  • joined discussions with Cyp (Frederico)
  • Starting work on L2 profiling and attempting to narrow down key narratives/features (Martin)
• waku:general-incentives
  • Reviewing protocol design decisions and changes made in Athens, mapping out implications for the incentive design (Martin)
• waku:rln-membership:
  • Reviewing the RLN decisions and changes made in Athens, mapping out implications for the RLN design (Martin)
• status:SNT-staking
  • Research into swap feature in cooperation with the SC team (Martin)

vac:dst:

• admin/misc
  • Meetings with Codex, prep for Codex testnet
• eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test
  • Began implementing message reliability measurement using message ID logs
    • Message tracking code
    • Visualisation code
  • Ran several simulation attempts, ran into network issues believed related to the power event. Found several things misbehaving
  • Read Waku paper
  • Control plane improvements, Kubernetes and Ceph cleanup, replacement parts for control plane
  • Network weirdness, still sorting

vac:qa:

• waku:interop-testing
  • Merged store tests part 1(@Florin)
  • Update tests based on fixes(@Florin)
  • Issue reopened(@Florin)
• waku:test-automation-sharding
  • Go-waku sharding tests update(@Roman)
  • Nim sharding tests(@Alex)
  • Issue found: message won't be sent over from node1 to node2 with sharded topic subscription - would need to be separated from PR1060(@Roman)
• waku:test-automation-rln
  • RLN relay tests(@Roman)
  • Issue found: RLN in on-chain dynamic mode not working
• waku:test-automation-nwaku
  • Peer & Connection Management tests(@Alex)
  • Issues found:(@Alex)
    • PeerInfo instance affects listed protocols
    • Some PeerStore metadata is not filled in
    • Peer Reconnection not working?
    • ENR shouldn't be used for pruning
• admin/misc
  • Started to read the nomos docs and begin to familiarize myself with nomos(@Florin)
  • Tried to build and run nomos node and nomos specs(@Florin)
  • Conducted interview with Sandarv on Thursday(@Roman)
  • OOO one day (@Florin)

vac:acz:

• rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-enhancements
  • resultify and clean up rln-relay code
• rlnp2p:waku:rln-doc-and-outreach
  • Blog post/RFC on Light RLN verifiers
• zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.5
  • QoL traits to the Hasher assoc.Type
  • Removed tree height 32 from rln
• secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
  • Generation of flow diagrams for several MLS procedures
  • Research on improving the privacy in DCGKA
• admin/misc
  • reduced availability since one CC is off (Ugur)

vac:sc::

vac:rfc:

• waku:core-rfc-updates
  • created rln-relay update pr, opened discussion for more to stable - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/32
  • merged WAKU-METADATA move to draft - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/6
• misc
  • found new problems with rfc-website, in contact Jhino to fix
  • started reading Codex spec marketplace - https://github.com/codex-storage/codex-research/blob/master/design/marketplace.md

vac:dr:

• unstructured-p2p-improvements-survey
  • Studied/investigated different techniques/works targetted on perfromance improvements against message sizes and counts
  • Looked for funding opportunities in the Ethereum eco-system that align with our research directions
• zk:codex:storage-proofs-open-problems-review
  • Discussed with Codex their specific needs in terms of documents, as well as received their list of papers and three problems in full detail. Discord thread and List
• admin/misc
  • Work on notes concerning BloomFilter, MMR, and Field Merkle.
  • Began working on a document on tangibles
• vac:dr:anon:vac:waku-anonymity-analysis
  • Read Waku Adversarial Models and Tor Push.
  • Started documenting Waku Anonymity Analysis - WiP.

vac:nes:

• admin/misc
  • Ugur from 15 to 23 April
  • Marvin from 15 to 17 April
• state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc
  • Worked on defining and identifying State Separation Components (Moudy)
  • Read Ugur's notes on Mutators 1 and 2 (Marvin)
  • Work on notes for MMR, Bloom Filters (potentially more useful for DR) (Marvin)
• proofsystems:vac:benchmarks
  • Almost finished the draft of the Benchmarks paper (still some details to add) (Moudy)
  • conducted conducting server testing and got 6 PRs merged (Rostyslav)
• virtual-machine-creation:vac:vm-foundations
  • Started looking at existing ZkVms in order to use them to add privacy on top (Moudy)
• proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems
  • Finished writing LatticeFold writeup