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title: "2024-03-11 Vac weekly"
tags:
- "vac-updates"
date: 2024-03-11
lastmod: 2024-03-11
draft: false
---
## Vac 2024/03/11
### vac:p2p:
- `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](https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/issues/1035)
- Double check jacek's answer: All good.
- single topic in rpc message
- [Issue](https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/issues/1052)
- Implement fix [PR](https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/1061)
- graceful shutdown
- [Issue](https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/issues/1007) Investigated and requested more info
### vac:tke:
- `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)
### vac:dst:
- `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
### vac:qa:
- `waku:interop-testing`
- Use fixed versions for [dependecies](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/19)(@Florin)
- [Adjustments and improvements](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/20)(@Florin)
- Tried to reproduce the disconnecting light clients issue and found a similar [issue](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2512)(@Florin)
- `waku:test-automation-sharding`
- Unit and interop [tests](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1883)(@Florin)
- Discovered autosharding is hardcoded for [cluster ID 1](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2505)(@Florin)
- Help js-waku devs to improve CI [error handling](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/1884)(@Florin)
- Raised [issue](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/1899) for flaky CI test(@Florin)
- `waku:test-automation-go-waku`
- Improve unit test coverage for [peermanager](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1035)(@Roman)
- Closed triggerDiscovery [issue](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/1044)(@Roman)
- Improve unit test coverage for [peer exchange](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1046)(@Roman)
- `waku:test-automation-nwaku`
- `KEYSTORE_PASSWORD` env variable is not effective - [resolved](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2374)(@Roman)
- Trying to reproduce, fix and add new test case for [metadata protocol disconnecting light clients issue](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2491)(@Alex)
- Solved some issues related to metadata connection between two nodes.(@Alex)
### vac:acz:
- `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](https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/251.pdf), [2](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1123.pdf), [3](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/386.pdf), and [DCGKA](https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1281.pdf)
- Quickly check the literature to see if there are any improvements in MLS and its problems.
- Started to focus on [DCGKA](https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1281.pdf) by reading [Ramses' note](https://www.notion.so/Weidner-et-al-DCGKA-5a0b67a3ce674ae3a5220b560015cd2c?pvs=4)
- `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
### vac:sc::
- `status:community-contracts-token-import`
- finished withdrawal PR
- added tests for erc20 withdrawal https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/pull/60
- started a POC for Vault migration to discuss about https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/issues/32
- `status:staking-contracts-v1`
- Continue work on coverage
- Fixed broken certora rule to get CI green again
- https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/78
- Added invariant to ensure Vault accounting preserves ERC20 balances
- https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/56
- Worked on pending Certora rule to get them pass on CI
- https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/58
- https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/57
- https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/81
- `vac:maintainance/misc`
- Analysis of SNT impact on ethereum state
- Research on Market Makers of other wallets
- Logos Research call preparation and presentation
- Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pdW3JZxqh7t_Aqd-cfIi1_JP4_8gyCk5XDBeY3nsrrE/edit?usp=sharing
- Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NGZWkEAWMoeHMQXpIi2fStyzQYqbfSKG/view?pli=1
### vac:rfc:
- `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
### vac:dr:
- `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](https://github.com/vacp2p/dst-gossipsub-test-node/pull/4) 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](https://www.notion.so/Message-Prioritization-Forwarding-in-Other-Libp2p-Implementations-15a23ab9c0034734865d369266228dca) on message forwarding/queuing in other libp2p implementations (go-libp2p):
- Created a [vac forum post](https://forum.vac.dev/t/large-message-handling-idontwant-imreceiving/281) on large message handling
- `admin/misc`
- Reviewed Waku-RLN paper
### vac:nes:
- `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](https://www.nexus.xyz/whitepaper.pdf) and [GKR-based VM](https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/387) (Marvin)
- Read various papers concerning reward mechanisms for miners/observers. [1](https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/197887/1/1027810829.pdf), [2](https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w25407/w25407.pdf), [3](https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-staking), [4](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.14038.pdf), [5](https://electriccoin.co/blog/proof-of-stake.-research-overview-1/) (Marvin)
- Almost completed report about SE/DE in PDAGs (Ugur)
- Read accumulators about Zerocoin nullifier mechanism in this [paper](https://zerocoin.org/media/pdf/ZerocoinOakland.pdf) (Ugur)
- `proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems`
- took a look at [Nexus VM](https://github.com/nexus-xyz/nexus-zkvm) and [LatticeFold](https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257.pdf) (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)