roadmap/content/vac/updates/2023-08-21.md

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Vac Milestones: https://www.notion.so/Vac-Roadmap-907df7eeac464143b00c6f49a20bb632 Vac Github Repos: https://www.notion.so/Vac-Repositories-75f7feb3861048f897f0fe95ead08b06

Vac week 34 August 21th

vsu::P2P

vsu::Tokenomics

  • admin/misc:
    • (3 CC days off)
  • vac:tke::codex:economic-analysis
    • Call w/ Codex on token incentives, business analysis of Filecoin
  • vac:tke::status:SNT-staking
    • Bug fixes for tests for the contracts
  • vac:tke::nomos:economic-analysis
    • Narrowed focus to: 1) quantifying bribery attacks, 2) assessing how to min risks and max privacy of delegated staking
  • vac:tke::waku:economic-analysis
    • Caught up w/ Waku team on RLN, adopting a proactive effort to pitch them solutions

vsu::Distributed Systems Testing (DST)

  • vac:dst:wakurtosis:vac:rlog
  • vac:dst:shadow:vac:basic-shadow-simulation
    • Run 10K simulation of basic gossipsub node
  • vac:dst:gsub-model:status:control-messages
    • Got access to status superset
  • vac:dst:analysis:nomos:nomos-simulation-analysis
    • Basic CLI done, json to csv, can handle 10k nodes
  • vac:dst:wakurtosis:waku:topology-analysis
    • Collection + analysis: now supports all waku protocols, along with relay
    • Cannot get gossip-sub peerage from waku or prometheus (working on getting info from gossipsub layer)
  • vac:dst:wakurtosis:waku:techreport_02
    • Merged 4 pending PRs; master now supports regular graphs
  • vac:dst:eng:vac:bundle-simulation-data
    • Run 1 and 10 rate simulations. 100 still being run
  • vac:dst:10ksim:vac:10ksim-bandwidth-test
    • Working on split the structure of codex tool; Working on diagrams also

vsu:Smart Contracts (SC)

  • vac:sc::status:community-contracts-ERC721
    • delivered (will need maintenance and adding features as requested in the future)
  • vac:sc::status:community-contracts-ERC20
    • started working on ERC20 contracts
  • vac:sc::vac:secureum-upskilling
    • Secureum: Finished Epoch 0, Slot 4 and 5
    • Deep dive on First Depositor/Inflation attacks
    • Learned about Minimal Proxy Contract pattern
    • More Uniswap V2 protocol reading
  • vac:sc::vac:maintainance/misc
    • Worked on moving community dapp contracts to new foundry-template

vsu:Applied Cryptogarphy & ZK (ACZ)

vip::zkVM

vc::Deep Research

  • vac:dr:valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc
    • Reimplemented torpush without any gossip sharing
    • Added discovering peers for torpush in every epoch/10 minutes
    • torswitch directly pushes messages to separately identified peers
  • vac:dr:valpriv:vac:tor-push-relwork
    • added quantified measures related to privacy in the paper section
  • vac:dr:gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-tech-report
    • Explored different unstructured p2p application architectuture
    • Studied literature on better bandwidth utilization in unstructured p2p networks.
  • vac:dr:gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation
    • Worked on GossibSup simulation in shadow simulator. Tried understanding different libp2p functions
    • Created short awk scripts for analyzing results.
  • vac:dr:consensus:nomos:carnot-bribery-article
    • Continue work on the article on bribery attacks, PoS and Carnot
    • Completed presentation about the bribery attacks and Carnot
  • vac:dr:consensus:nomos:carnot-paper
    • Discussed Carnot tests and results with Nomos team. Some adjustment to the parameters needed to be made to accurate results.