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Vac 2024/06/03

admin
- reviewed and updated TKE milestones (Frederico)
codex:cdx
- reviewed research reports about competitors (Frederico)
- structureed and started developing Codex agent-based model (Frederico)
nomos:cryptarchia-wealth-concentration-known-stake
- produced better comparisons between the fork-choice rules (Frederico)
- finalized the single Jupyter notebook that replicates all computations (Frederico)
- continued the restructure of the previous work under a newly defined strategy (Frederico)
waku:general-incentives
- caught up with the current state (Frederico)
waku:rln-membership
- Reviewed existing research into RLN and compatibility with the new design (Martin)
status:SNT-staking
- Reviewed Juan's work on swaps (Martin)
status:L2-deployment
- Drafted first docs on the economic model and identifying missing pieces, iterating on this with Cyp (Martin

vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:midscale
- Deploy additional Ruby control plane nodes for better stability.
  - Partially deployed, being finished today
- Investigate Waku regression
- PR: New Publisher merged. Tested with 3K Nodes.
- Fixed data retrieval issues with Pushprox that affected simulations.
- Changed Waku parameters to better test waku v0.27
vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:vac:libp2p-version-testing
- Async meetings with libp2p team to inform testing
- PR: Added deployment files in 10k repo for nim-libp2p.
- Changed DST-node branch to use nimbus build system.
- Deployed 1K nimlibp2p nodes and gathered data
vac:dst:tooling:vac:visualiser-tool
- New weekly Monday meeting with Waku team about reliability
- Waku is interested in using the visualiser tool in their test fleet. Got an SSH tunnel for Elastic access.

waku:interop-testing
- Merged store v3 - added 70 tests(@Florin)
- Spent 1 day investigating potential reliability issues that turned out to be misconfigs(@Florin)
waku:test-automation-status-go-cli
- Call with Pablo regarding requirements and deliverables(@Florin)
- Started creating a test framework around the status go cli tool(@Florin)
waku:test-automation-rln
- Fix: occasional failure to check published message for RLN tests(@Roman)
nomos:test-automation-cryptarchia
- Chore: cryptarchia unit tests update in progress(@Roman)
- Example how coverage changes in the report: Before -> After (@Roman)

rlnp2p:waku:rlnv2-e2e
- chore(tests): add kats test for merkle proof
- chore: integrate uups proxy
- chore: scaffold deployments
- merged tests PR after addressing reviews
stealth-address-kit:vac:maintenance
validator-privacy:nimbus:productionize-tor-push
- reviewed codebase and paper
secure-channels:waku:mls-design
- Study on login and authentication options for MLS design in terms of decentralization, adding a conclusion to doc
- Examine login mechanism of a self-hosted messaging app based on matrix named element see in github
- Finished the (first version) of the presentation for the EthCC Brussels.
secure-channels:waku:mls-poc
- tried to implement poc using openmls and centralised DS -> not finished, found that using decentralised approach is better
- started to investigate how to use waku as DS
consulting:codex:proxy-re-encryption
- attended kick-off call, meeting notes with action points for next steps
admin/misc
- added codex proxy re-encryption to roadmap pr and merged

-tooling:vac:compiler

codex:specs-init
- Updated marketplace rfc, made changes based on feedback - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/36
nomos:specs-init
- Worked on data availibility rfc, created pr still in draft - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/

gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation
- Experimented with different optimizations for minimizing the impact of IWant messages. Additionally, we can skip sending IWant if we have received multiple IDontWants for the same msgID; implemented this in PR that shows reasonable improvement.
vac:admin
- Logos Research call presentation
- Met with Aaryamann concerning blog formatting.
zk:codex:zk-consulting
- Began document on proposed proof algorithm draft, and began notes on Groth16 as a wrapper.
- Began reading Circle STARK, ECFFT1 and ECFFT2 to focus on variations of FFT optimizations.
vac:dr:anon:vac:gossipsub-anonymity
- Reading Nym Network white paper. This addresses several open questions we had: strong adversarial model, reputation system that ensures reliability and mitigates Sybil attacks, uses verifiable random functions for node selection, maintains list of active nodes, prevent long-term correlation attacks by rotating active nodes every hour, rewards for nodes.
- Began investigating an open source libp2p-nym implementation in Rust

virtual-machine-creation:vac:vm-foundations
- work on list of ZkVMs
  - Continued entering data on Nexus, Jolt, o1VM.
  - Found new benchmarks for SP1, Jolt and Valida
  - Ola and snarkOS. [DR]
  - Compiled information for Valida, Ola, snarkOS, RISC0 and Valida into the zkVM table. [DR]
  - compiled information for P1, Powdr, Miden, zkOS, Aleo(snarkVM), and zkMIPS in zkVM table [ACZ]
proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems
- continue working on a writeup about Greco zk proofs