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title: "2023-09-04 Vac weekly"
tags:
- "vac-updates"
date: 2023-09-04
lastmod: 2023-09-04
draft: false
---
## Vac 2023/09/04
* [Vac Milestones](https://www.notion.so/Vac-Roadmap-907df7eeac464143b00c6f49a20bb632)
* [Vac Github Repos](https://www.notion.so/Vac-Repositories-75f7feb3861048f897f0fe95ead08b06)
### vac:p2p:
- `nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-ddos-mitigation`
- Opened upstream discussion about gossipsub peer exchange (which is a DDoS vector) https://github.com/libp2p/specs/issues/570
- `nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport`
- Hitting roadblocks on DTLS
### vac:tke::
- `codex:economic-analysis`
- Presenting Filecoin findings to Codex team
- Litepaper: assumptions on collateral
- `status:SNT-staking`
- Highlighted multiple design requirements not met by SC implementation for SC team [notion doc](https://www.notion.so/Implementing-SNT-Staking-Contract-Issues-Differences-2de74e7c19124e78b1c9490300a84422)
- Open questions w/ John, epoch duration
- Staking governance proposal for when John returns Sep 12
- `nomos:economic-analysis`
- Delegated staking specifications w/Marcin, update for privacy constraints
- Bribery attacks analysis, Moh asked to followup early/mid Sep
- `waku:economic-analysis`
- Formalized RLN thoughts shared w/ Aaryamann, will push for additional feedback once Martin returns
### vac:dst:
- `analysis:nomos:nomos-simulation-analysis`
- Took over data generation on Tuesday
- Found a bug in simulations, working around it
- The comparison runs are now fully automated
- got the first full set of comparison plots: everything appears to be explainable for a fixed probability
- Tree runs now scale to 15k nodes
- `wakurtosis:vac:retrospective-rlog`
- Gather info and wrote summary of why we decided to stop using Kurtosis.
- `10ksim:vac:10ksim-bandwidth-test`
- Code diagrams + structurization
- Chats with Ben (Codex)
- `wakurtosis:nomos:ci-integration_02`
- (hold for now, since we drop Kurtosis; will continue in November once we have the new 10k simulator tool)
- `software-testing:waku:test-plans`
- Added test plans for filter, lightpush and store: https://www.notion.so/Test-Plans-09c8c7b7f6784c459fb774792665e37c
- `software-testing:waku:test-automation-js-waku`
- Made it possible to choose the nwaku version in the js waku github actions workflow by using workflow_dispatch inputs. [PR Link](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1510)
### vac:sc::
- `vac:secureum-upskilling`
- No progress; busy with `CommunityTokenDeployer` contract
- `status:community-contracts-maintenance`
- Gas optimizations in token contracts
- Custom errors vs require string messages [PR](https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/pull/3)
- Usage of `immutable` properties [PR](https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/pull/5)
- `status:community-contracts-deployer`
- Implemented `CommunityTokenDeployer`
- Includes tests and docs
- [Pull requests](https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/pull/2)
- Ran into a contract size issue; Context [comment](https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/pull/2#issuecomment-1705063304)
- Added docs for commuity token deployer contract
- [Pull Request](https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/pull/4)
- `status:governance-contract-mvp`
- ERC2470 ressurection
- Updated to latest solidity
- Implemented error checking for "already deployed" (saves gas in case of user error)
- Implemented error checking for "successful deploy" (forces gas estimation to successful deploy scenario)
- In progress upgrade on solidity compiler new outputs (from 0.5.11=>0.8.x)
- Research on delegation vs staking contract
### vac:acz:
- `rlnp2p:waku:membership-management`
- fixed makefile target for `rln-keystore-generator` - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1960
- log the membership index out upon registration in the `rln-keystore-generator` - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1963
- `rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-enhancments`
- rln was enabled by default in the Makefile - fixed - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1964
- ordered pubsub validator execution - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1966
- fixed deserialization of valid merkle roots - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1973
- confirm that the fetched credential from the keystore is registered to the membership set - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1980
- fixed makefile target for zerokit's `librln.a` - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1981
- converted zero-based indexing to 1-based indexing on vacp2p/rln-contract - https://github.com/vacp2p/rln-contract/pull/28
- downstreamed zero-based indexing to waku-org/waku-rln-contract - https://github.com/waku-org/waku-rln-contract/pull/8 -
- deployed new version of the registry contract on sepolia - `0xc04937d502E0ae671cedFC2A0BCD6692055520f3`
- `zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.4`
- Merged a PR to deal with `message_id` range check https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/210
- researched `tree_size` issue for the 0.4 release
- researched `idCommitment/rateCommitment` issue for the 0.4 release
### vac:zkvm:
- `proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems`
- [blog post] (https://vac.dev/rlog/Nescience-A-zkVM-leveraging-hiding-properties)
- Researched ways to achieve Goal2 and Goal3 for Nescience.
- Integrated different techniques for Goal4 and Goal5 for Nescience.
- prepared Nova-implementation writeup (https://www.notion.so/zkVM-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#cce2cc365a384126b2a5041900bd3ce9)
- Continued Lasso research (https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/introducing-lasso-and-jolt/)
- [Notes for Protogalaxy; 100%](https://www.notion.so/zkVM-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#31b80e44529e4f3c80991e4a67afed3c)
- Notes for Protostar
- `proofsystems:vac:proof-system-benchmarks`
- Added an introductory section for Benchmark in zk-explorations repo: https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/10
### vac:dr:
- `gsub-scaling:vac:unstructured-p2p-improvements-survey`
- Completed literature study. Covered article related to overlay design (single tier, multi-tier, hybrid overlays)
- peer selection methodologies, rumor/gossiping protocols, push/pull based publishing approaches, message encoding, probablistic forwarding, overlay optimization, and peer heterogeneity/capacity based roles (super nodes and similar roles)
- Still need to review 1-2 D-regular graph based approaches. Only selected articles are added in zotero (under vacp2p)
- `valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc`
- Debugged various appraoches(tcp, gossip, tor). Triaged why attestations not working
- `valpriv:vac:tor-push-relwork`
- completed related work all
- `consensus:nomos:carnot-paper`
- Publishing the Carnot paper (Done) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.16016.pdf
- Begin work on writing up Carnot's specification in RFC format
- `consensus:nomos:carnot-bribery-article`
- Finishing (describing research directions and their pros and cons, polishing the article) and publishing the article (Done) https://www.notion.so/WIP-Bribery-Attacks-in-Consensus-Protocols-Challenges-and-Solutions-e4e108c17dba421abe83de49076c8f25
- `consensus:nomos:carnot-vote-2-3rds-vote-aggregation`
- Completing the initial design and work on presentation slides. The plan will be to present the initial design on September 6 research call
### vac:rfc:rfc:
- `status:port-status-specs`
- Started porting `6/PAYLOAD` to vac RFCs
- Work-in-progress PR is pending [here](https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/612)
- This RFC specifically needs a lot of work as it misses a lot of the current payload types
- Updated `61/STATUS-community-history-archives` according to feedback comments and landed it
- Merged PR is [here](https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/610)
- started porting 16/keycard-usage to Vac (looking into status-go)