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Vac 2023/09/04

nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-ddos-mitigation
- Opened upstream discussion about gossipsub peer exchange (which is a DDoS vector) https://github.com/libp2p/specs/issues/570
nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport
- Hitting roadblocks on DTLS

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

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
- Added test plans for filter, lightpush and store: https://www.notion.so/Test-Plans-09c8c7b7f6784c459fb774792665e37c
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: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
  - Includes tests and docs
  - Pull requests
  - Ran into a contract size issue; Context comment
- Added docs for commuity token deployer contract
  - Pull Request
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

rlnp2p:waku:membership-management
- fixed makefile target for rln-keystore-generator - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1960
- log the membership index out upon registration in the rln-keystore-generator - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1963
rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-enhancments
- rln was enabled by default in the Makefile - fixed - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1964
- ordered pubsub validator execution - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1966
- fixed deserialization of valid merkle roots - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1973
- confirm that the fetched credential from the keystore is registered to the membership set - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1980
- fixed makefile target for zerokit's librln.a - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1981
- converted zero-based indexing to 1-based indexing on vacp2p/rln-contract - https://github.com/vacp2p/rln-contract/pull/28
- downstreamed zero-based indexing to waku-org/waku-rln-contract - https://github.com/waku-org/waku-rln-contract/pull/8 -
- deployed new version of the registry contract on sepolia - 0xc04937d502E0ae671cedFC2A0BCD6692055520f3
zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.4
- Merged a PR to deal with message_id range check https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/210
- researched tree_size issue for the 0.4 release
- researched idCommitment/rateCommitment issue for the 0.4 release

proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems
- [blog post] (https://vac.dev/rlog/Nescience-A-zkVM-leveraging-hiding-properties)
- Researched ways to achieve Goal2 and Goal3 for Nescience.
- Integrated different techniques for Goal4 and Goal5 for Nescience.
- prepared Nova-implementation writeup (https://www.notion.so/zkVM-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#cce2cc365a384126b2a5041900bd3ce9)
- Continued Lasso research (https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/introducing-lasso-and-jolt/)
- Notes for Protogalaxy; 100%
- Notes for Protostar
proofsystems:vac:proof-system-benchmarks
- Added an introductory section for Benchmark in zk-explorations repo: https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/10

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
- Publishing the Carnot paper (Done) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.16016.pdf
- Begin work on writing up Carnot's specification in RFC format
consensus:nomos:carnot-bribery-article
- Finishing (describing research directions and their pros and cons, polishing the article) and publishing the article (Done) https://www.notion.so/WIP-Bribery-Attacks-in-Consensus-Protocols-Challenges-and-Solutions-e4e108c17dba421abe83de49076c8f25
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