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Vac 2024/03/11

nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport
- Finish commenting and refactoring Sctp and DataChannel https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/6 (merged)
- Try to implement CI and make it work on differents OS (it fails) https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/1
- Move usrsctp from nim-webrtc to its own repository: https://github.com/status-im/nim-usrsctp
- Clean nim-webrtc for the review
  - UDP: https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/8
  - Stun: https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/9
  - DTLS: https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/10
  - SCTP: https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/11
  - DataChannel: https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/12
nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-stagger-send
- Reviewing and discussing https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/1051. It's related to prio queues in GossipSub.
nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance
- Creating questions for interview.
- Trying to run interop tests with chronos 3 - https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/1055
- various PR reviews
nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance
- proto3 repeated uint32 handling
  - Issue
  - Double check jacek's answer: All good.
  - single topic in rpc message
    - Issue
    - Implement fix PR
  - graceful shutdown
    - Issue Investigated and requested more info

waku:rln-membership:
- Prepare a summary of the RLN membership model including user journey mapping (need to discuss with Waku team further) (Martin)
- Prepare and iterate on the token economy suggestions for Waku (Martin)
- Follow-ups from the Tokenomics call (Martin)
status:SNT-staking
- Continue to monitor development and give feedback for the staking contract (Martin)
- Assist the SC team in further checks and definition of testing scenarios (Martin)
- Follow-ups from the Status Chain IFT Strategy call (Martin)
nomos:tdc-objectives
- finalized the objectives & requirements part of the TDC (inc. mixnet nodes below) (Frederico)
nomos:mixnet-incentives
- understood the mixnet incentivization problem (Frederico)
- read Nym reward sharing scheme for mixnets (a comparable) (Frederico)
- analysed the differences between single vs. multi-staking approaches (Frederico)
waku:general-incentives
- caught up with Martin's tokenomics proposal (Frederico)

eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test
- Main thing is to retrieve waku simulations Data and plot them
  - Prepare deliverable for Waku
    - Finish running several simulations with different sizes and message rates
    - Extract data
    - Prepare and clean plots
    - Discuss again with Wings what we should explain in the deliverable
- Add tests to plotter module
- Scrapping PR aproved by Alex: https://github.com/vacp2p/10ksim/pull/3
- Deliverable for Waku simulations
- Discussions with some friends about how to scale further
  - Noted that there was at least 8 layers for every packet to pass through with current setup
- Network restructuring - OVS + Mellanox OFED + asap2 attempts
  - Added Proxmox to Vaxis and Nia (converting them)
    - Added Mellanox OFED drivers
    - Updated firwmare
    - Moved to OpenvSwitch networking
- Deployed Kubernetes onto the new machines
:vac:lab
- Preparing for power upgrades
- Added Vaxis, Nia, new 64 core nodes
- Added new 25G switch

waku:interop-testing
- Use fixed versions for dependecies(@Florin)
- Adjustments and improvements(@Florin)
- Tried to reproduce the disconnecting light clients issue and found a similar issue(@Florin)
waku:test-automation-sharding
- Unit and interop tests(@Florin)
- Discovered autosharding is hardcoded for cluster ID 1(@Florin)
- Help js-waku devs to improve CI error handling(@Florin)
- Raised issue for flaky CI test(@Florin)
waku:test-automation-go-waku
- Improve unit test coverage for peermanager(@Roman)
- Closed triggerDiscovery issue(@Roman)
- Improve unit test coverage for peer exchange(@Roman)
waku:test-automation-nwaku
- KEYSTORE_PASSWORD env variable is not effective - resolved(@Roman)
- Trying to reproduce, fix and add new test case for metadata protocol disconnecting light clients issue(@Alex)
- Solved some issues related to metadata connection between two nodes.(@Alex)

rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-enhancments
- Optimized the Nullifier Table usage to O(1) reads to detect double signaling: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2508
- Fixed execution error when trying to fetch metadata from a freshly created tree (nwaku side): https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2516
rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-v2
- Wrap up tests for rln-relay-v2: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2501 (pending review)
zerokit:vac:maintenance
- Fix execution error when trying to fetch metadata from a freshly created tree (zerokit side): https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/231 (rln-v1) & https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/232 (rln-v2)
secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
- Explore a proposal on decentralized CGKA by Weidner et al. as a replacement for the MLS protocol.
secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
- Check the literature for related the papers CoCoA, 2, 3, and DCGKA
- Quickly check the literature to see if there are any improvements in MLS and its problems.
- Started to focus on DCGKA by reading Ramses' note
zerokit:vac:maintenance
- researched Rust for Android for issue #47
admin/misc
- Fixed compilation without the postgres feature in nwaku: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2500
- waku research paper

rfc-process-restructuring
- added markdown-lint workflow to rfc-index- https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/24
- finished moving final open waku specs from vac/rfc - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pulls
misc
- worked on pr for 64/WAKU2-NETWORK - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/5

valpriv:vac:val-priv-net
- Moved the content to notion https://www.notion.so/privacy-preserving-validator-network-e92ab3e563074a538bb0e13e5c9321e6
valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc
- Running holesky validators, getting over sync/deposit issue
valpriv:vac:tor-push-paper
- Improved the draft https://www.overleaf.com/project/6499e467346d9f56b2971caa
gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation
- Completed topology generation scripts for shadow simulator. PR4 now supports running simulations with variable latency, bandwidth, packet loss ratio, and also allows adjusting network/message size, fragmentation and publisher settings
- Created a notion page on message forwarding/queuing in other libp2p implementations (go-libp2p):
- Created a vac forum post on large message handling
admin/misc
- Reviewed Waku-RLN paper

state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc
- Researched accumulators and how to combine them to Homomorphic encryption + prepared a document about it (Moudy)
- Researched how to make salt approach dynamic and will prepare a document about it (Moudy)
- Began reading portions of Nexus VM and GKR-based VM (Marvin)
- Read various papers concerning reward mechanisms for miners/observers. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (Marvin)
- Almost completed report about SE/DE in PDAGs (Ugur)
- Read accumulators about Zerocoin nullifier mechanism in this paper (Ugur)
proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems
- took a look at Nexus VM and LatticeFold (Rostyslav)
proofsystems:vac:benchmarks
- Worked on abstract, tables for paper (Moudy)
- Worked on researching Nova vs. Supernova (Moudy)
- Started Nova vs. Halo2 recursion vs. aggregation (Moudy)
- Prepared explanation for Nova Bellman implementation (Rostyslav)
- Conducted local benchmark testing (Rostyslav)