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---
title: "2024-04-22 Vac weekly"
tags:
- "vac-updates"
date: 2024-04-22
lastmod: 2024-04-22
draft: 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](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/31)(@Florin)
- Update tests based on [fixes](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/32)(@Florin)
- Issue [reopened](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/1076)(@Florin)
- `waku:test-automation-sharding`
- Go-waku sharding tests [update](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1060)(@Roman)
- Nim sharding [tests](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2603)(@Alex)
- Issue found: [message won't be sent over from node1 to node2 with sharded topic subscription](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/1086) - would need to be separated from PR1060(@Roman)
- `waku:test-automation-rln`
- RLN relay [tests](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/30)(@Roman)
- Issue found: RLN in on-chain dynamic mode [not working](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2606)
- `waku:test-automation-nwaku`
- Peer & Connection Management [tests](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2566)(@Alex)
- Issues found:(@Alex)
- [PeerInfo instance affects listed protocols](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2590)
- [Some PeerStore metadata is not filled in](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2591)
- [Peer Reconnection not working?](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2592)
- [ENR shouldn't be used for pruning](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2594)
- `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](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2607)
- `rlnp2p:waku:rln-doc-and-outreach`
- Blog post/RFC on [Light RLN verifiers](https://github.com/vacp2p/vac.dev/pull/136)
- `zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.5`
- [QoL traits](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/238) to the Hasher assoc.Type
- [Removed tree height 32 from rln](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/239)
- `secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat`
- Generation of [flow diagrams](https://github.com/vacp2p/de-mls/issues/1) 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](https://discord.com/channels/895609329053474826/1230908611727720599) and [List](https://hackmd.io/@bkomuves/SJGyefxZR)
- `admin/misc`
- Work on notes concerning BloomFilter, MMR, and Field Merkle.
- Began working on a document on [tangibles](https://notes.status.im/ju6WUNg6RbSUa39h2DS0Lw)
- `vac:dr:anon:vac:waku-anonymity-analysis`
- Read [Waku Adversarial Models](https://vac.dev/rlog/wakuv2-relay-anon/) and [Tor Push](https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/blob/main/vac/46/gossipsub-tor-push.md).
- Started documenting [Waku Anonymity Analysis](https://www.notion.so/Anonymity-Layer-cbcbcd6067b347bb812041bce9c110ce) - 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](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#c268e5d7c0004b3caba0f740fcf98954) and [2](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#68f6838591304d7397a01e8cdc8aa877) (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](https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257.pdf)