roadmap/content/vac/updates/2023-10-16.md

---
title: "2023-10-16 Vac weekly"
tags:
  - "vac-updates"
date: 2023-10-16
lastmod: 2023-10-16
draft: false
---

### vac:p2p:
- `nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport`
  - Started to implement DataChannel in WebRTC: https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/4
  - Started to implement the WebRTC transport in libp2p: https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/
  - rework of UDP / Stun / Dtls / Sctp https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/
- `nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-ddos-mitigation`
  - https://github.com/libp2p/jvm-libp2p/pull/336

### vac:tke:
  - `vac:tke::codex:economic-analysis`
    - Met w/ Codex and reviewed the marketplace workflows, identified many updates for litepaper (@Matty)
    - Will update litepaper incorporating feedback, and update Codex modeling, reconnect after their offsite
  - `vac:tke::status:SNT-staking`
    - Update notion docs with links to all latest governance proposals
    - Assigning issues in Github to SC team, and submit pull reqs, primarily on dependency the claims, and how restaking works (@Martin)
    - Continuing revamp of economic model/projections, review early approach w/John (@Matty)
- `vac:tke::nomos:economic-analysis`
    - Frederico remains in regular communication with Alvaro and Marcin, continuing on Private Addressing research (@Frederico)
    - Reviewing similar challenges ETH is also considering, changes to economic model for adding native delegation
- `vac:tke::waku:economic-analysis`
    - Had a call with Aaryamann and Sergei last week, they had followup questions on fleshing out pros/cons of various design approaches to RLN stake (@Martin)

### vac:dst:
- `analysis-shadow:vac:shadow-gossipsub-analysis`
  - Fixed timestamp bug
  - Updated traffic injection to continuous operation
  - Created IPFS mesh slices of arbitrary time length
- `analysis:nomos:simulation-analysis`
  - Finally zero'd in on the tree/branch bug. The pre and post-analysis are fine, the bug is in the Carnot sim. 
  - The view installation time distribution with network delays is now done
- `dr-support:vac:carnot-2-3rds-python-impl`
  - investigate Carnot sim code
- `eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test`
  - Finish exporting metrics (delayed)
  - Make sure new CIDR configuration supports 10k PODs
- `wakurtosis:vac:rlog`
  - finish simulations
- `software-testing:waku:test-automation-js-waku`
  - New tests:
    - [Relay[WIP]](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1649)
  - Improvements:
    - Speed up execution from 12m to 3.5m for 250 tests through [parallelization](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1655)(Significant refactoring needed to achieve this)
    - Follow up [fix](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1662) to only allow paralellization in CI env
  - Fixes:
    - Updated [tests](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1661) after gowaku store fixes
    - Updated [tests](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1645) after remote peer rejected error
- `software-testing:waku:test-automation-nwaku`
  - Relay and message id tests
    - [PR](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2101)
  - Merge filter subscribe PRs; Pending unsubscribe, missing one review.
  - Heavily investigate issues shown on tests
    - Max 1MB message size, no graceful handle.
    - After stopping and restarting a relay node, can't reconnect it with `connectRelay`.
    - Can't stop a relay node and send a message: Inconsistent with filter push behaviour.
    - Publishing multiple messages in a row triggers the same SEGFAULT as when refreshing a subscription.
- `software-testing:waku:test-automation-go-waku`
  - Wrote five tests - were added to the branch https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/tree/chore(filterV2)-test-updates
  - Reported issue "Messages won't get through with multiple pubsub topics" https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/804
  - Tracking coverage as notes so far -> will change to tabular form. Notion has API, we could possibly update docs during test execution? https://www.notion.so/Filter-Test-Coverage-42fc15b503ec4621980a7757d85089db?pvs=4

### vac:acz:
- `rlnp2p:waku:rln-doc-and-outreach`
  - worked on the rln rlog - https://github.com/vacp2p/vac.dev/pull/132
- `misc`
  - explored next iteration of rln, which includes message sizes within the proof
- `rlnp2p:waku:multi-epoch-constraint`
  - Keep working on a solution for the problem. (https://www.notion.so/WiP-Multi-epoch-Constraints-a5b648b98c46461187563d6c1e094468)
- `secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat`
  - Keep improving the level of detail in the description of the WiP towards the creation of an RFC. (https://www.notion.so/WiP-Secure-Ethereum-Chat-f69ff155456c4fdeb719aba96fd7a8ab)

### vac:sc::
- `status:snt-staking-contract-maintenance`
    - Added additional tests
        - https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/27
        - https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/36
    - Use custom errors over error strings
        - https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/28
        - https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/29
        - https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/30
        - https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/35
    - Some cleanup
        - https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/26
        - https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/25
    - Introduced `VaultFactory`
        - https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/38
- `status:community-contracts-maintenance`
    - Deployed community token deployer contracts to Sepolia
        - https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/pull/20
- `codex:review-codex-contracts`
    - Did a first quick review of the code, notes can be found here
        - https://www.notion.so/Codex-Marketplace-Contracts-337a2e38fa574a2d8ffb589f4f599

### vac:nescience:
- `state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc`
  - Finished and shared a new document about [state separation techniques](https://www.notion.so/zkVM-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#ef4efe76c6244c37974cb4355bb1fcd8)
  - Keep researching and adding updates
- `proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems`
  - Still working on *Proof Creation and Verification* (Goal 3 for Nescience), specifically trying to identify novel techniques
  - Considering article for Nescience
  - Continuous readings on bulding secure zkVMs
  - discussion on Sona proof system (from Lasso paper) and alternatives (Hyrax, KZG, FRI)
  - Reserched the connection between plonky2 and starky
- `proofsystems:vac:benchmarks`
  - Starting a draft for an article (overleaf)
  - working on Halo2 [benchmark](https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/11)

### vac:dr:
- `valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc`
    - Getting fleet nimbus node measurements.
    - For [PR](https://github.com/vacp2p/nimbus-eth2-experimental/pull/4), over 11 days, monitored attestation success with near zero attestation drop rate, effectiveness 89%
    - Investigating why opt. incl distance degrades occassionally
- `valpriv:vac:tor-push-paper`
    - Added changes in https://www.overleaf.com/project/6499e467346d9f56b2971ca
- `gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation`
  - Digged deeper into the gossipsub implementation in nim-lib-p2p.
  - Modified handling of large messages in the existing implementation. Modified message relaying behavior
    - We relay the large messages to only d_low peers and other peer are sent an IDONTWANT message.
    - Unreceived large messages are requested using IWANT message.
    - We save approximately 40% bandwidth, on cost of approximately 2 RTTs to the opverall message latency
- `consensus:nomos:carnot-vote-2-3rds-vote-aggregation` 
  - Writing the psuedocode (https://github.com/logos-co/nomos-specs/blob/Carnot-vote-aggregation/carnot/carnot-vote-aggregation.py).
  - Adding discussion to the high level protocol document(https://www.notion.so/High-Level-Algorithm-6535ac0363df4629ad2c40dff4bc62cd)

### vac:rfc:
* `status:port-status-specs`
    - reviewed waku usage of status, draft of rfc