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title: "2023-09-25 Vac weekly"
tags:
- "vac-updates"
date: 2023-09-25
lastmod: 2023-09-25
draft: false
---
### vac:p2p:
- `nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-ddos-mitigation`
- Merged GossipSub Traffic Scoring https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/920
- `nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-stagger-send`
- Continued simulations
- `nim-libp2p:vac:maintenance`
- Tried to integrate HP in nwaku, but rendezvous isn't integrated [yet](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1766#issuecomment-1731030691)
- `nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport`
- Continued vertical integration of protocols
### vac:tke:
- `vac:tke::codex:economic-analysis`
- Meeting with Codex on Tuesday, get in sync on timeline and steps for final delivery
- `vac:tke::status:SNT-staking`
- Review goverance process itself, governance proposal template, staking gov proposal w/ John
- `vac:tke::nomos:economic-analysis`
- Analysis of rewards for delegation vs validation
- Alvaro shared further docs to review on Private Addressing incentives and two-tiered staking
- `vac:tke::waku:economic-analysis`
- Reading WAKU papers and onboarding Sergei, establishing recurring cadence
### vac:dst:
- `wakurtosis:waku:techreport_03`
- Delivered (pending discussion with Waku team)
- `analysis-shadow:vac:shadow-gossipsub-analysis`
- Run 20K simulation (resources test)
- `eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test`
- Check with Slava K8s configuration, to run nodes in master aswell (K3s)
- Code first multi-node deployment
- Dockerized DST node
- `software-testing:waku:test-plans`
- Started working at the Relay test plan
- `software-testing:waku:test-automation-js-waku`
- Addressed all comments from last week PRs and merged them
- Fixed the nwaku CI part that invokes js-waku: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2061
- Bumped nwaku version in js-waku CI: https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1591
- Helped investigating nwaku issues caught by the js-waku tests
- Investigated some flaky tests and tried to fix them: https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1592
- Started working on adding new tests for the static sharding functionality for js-waku
- Added a bug report found during testing and a feature request for test reporting
- `software-testing:waku:test-automation-nwaku`
- Implement service to service waku filter tests: [PR](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2057)
- Implement coverage for nwaku: [PR](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2067)
- Rebase all test branches from master, fixing numerous git mishaps.
- Update PRs with comments.
### vac:acz:
- `rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-enhancments`
- fixed a segfault issue - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2047
- `zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.4`
- still investigating the proof verification failures using the new artifacts. can confirm that the inputs for proof generation are valid, and are verified by using snarkjs.
- Removed private `message_id` from `compute_id_secret` agruments
- Fix `RLNProofValues`
- `secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat`
- WiP Notion doc on the specifications of the protocol
### vac:sc::
- `status:community-contracts-deployer`
- Merged all pending PRs. This milestone is now done
- Deployed a version of token deployer contracts to optimism goerli
- `status:community-curation-contracts`
- Discussed and started implementing necessary changes for beta release
- Foundry deployment script
- batch processing of votes in finalization phase
- `status:SNT-optimism-bridge`
- Sync call with Certora on audit report and next audit planning
- created tests for onTransfer reentrancy case https://github.com/vacp2p/minime/pull/29
- fixed reentrancy https://github.com/vacp2p/minime/pull/24
- rised coverage from 54.62% to 67.23% https://github.com/vacp2p/minime/pull/33
- Alter Minime to allow being extended to specialized tokens (such as OptimismMintableERC20) https://github.com/vacp2p/minime/pull/32
- create script for detailed gas-report https://github.com/vacp2p/minime/pull/25
- locally optimized gas usage
### vac:zkvm:
- `proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems`
- Written a document for [State Separation](https://www.notion.so/zkVM-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#0fcbf60bda2049d387334e5f5dd91547) motivation for Nescience
- Readings to justify Goal 3
- Considered some scientific paper format for Nescience
- Worked on Jolt writeup draft (https://www.notion.so/zkVM-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#fae64ac478004b749f7b211a9542f2d2)
- Started research on Poseidon paper (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/458.pdf) and is implementations
- Logos research call presentation.
- Notes on Recproof (WIP) and zkTree [(same document)](https://file.notion.so/f/f/1518abd9-c08f-4989-93c1-96525e62bce5/a9097bd6-371d-4408-9302-57dbb114f5ea/Recproof___Notes_(1).pdf?id=b6e0cccd-2aa9-4b7f-b340-6293e7c783e0&table=block&spaceId=1518abd9-c08f-4989-93c1-96525e62bce5&expirationTimestamp=1695513600000&signature=SbII5tn2mPT2yNloyJtnWw2bxzZQFFkjz-vyKqcPxtk&downloadName=Notes+-+Recproofs+and+zkTrees+%28WIP%29.pdf).
- Notes on Poseidon2 (WIP)
- `proofsystems:vac:benchmarks`
- Added an explanation for [Plonky2 circuit](https://www.notion.so/zkVM-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#6c98b04e92d0480c8d3ee24fab967f9b) [To add to GitHub]
- Started reading Nova circuit to provide an explanation of what the circuit is doing
- finish up Nova bellman benchmark https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/14
### vac:dr:
- `valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc`
- Investigated the issue with failing attestation, Fixed the exclusion of connected peer
- Debugged the latency script evaluation/ Recalculated stats.
- `valpriv:vac:tor-push-paper`
- Updated the structure of the paper and added tentative contributions to the paper.
- Added sections on latency and security analysis in the results section along with the potential limitations of the proposed method.
- `gossipsub-improvements-paper`
- Research log post for GossipSub improvements is ready for review
- Incorporated changes to the Introduction, and Related work. Results part is still a work in process.
- `consensus:nomos:carnot-vote-2-3rds-vote-aggregation`
- Writing the pseudocode (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)
- `:nomos:review`
- Reviewing https://www.notion.so/Data-Availability-Specification-c3961b681eba4ccdab2be9181e4207b4#3df2088e8a9b4c048310e51ff8e577a8
### vac:rfc:
- `status:port-status-specs`
- porting 2/ACCOUNTS to vac rfcs (RFC 65); in review process
- 63/STATUS-Keycard-Usage merged https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/63/