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2024/08/26

Tokenomics: Last week:

  • nomos:cryptarchia-wealth-concentration-known-stake
    • reviewed the statistical analyses (Frederico)
    • Merged statistical analyses into main doc (Juan)
  • nomos:selfish-behavior
    • continued developing the code required for this study (Frederico)
  • codex:cdx
    • further reviewed the simulation code (Frederico)
    • met Codex to discuss current state and next steps (Frederico)
    • defined next tasks (Frederico)
    • further improved the simulation code (Juan)
    • met Codex to discuss current state and next steps (Juan)
    • defined next tasks (Juan)
  • status:L2-deployment
    • reviewed the work on swap aggregator (Frederico)
    • caught up with the XP program discussion (Frederico)
    • following up with Cyp and discussing cooldown periods (didn't take place last week) (Martin)
    • detailed suggestions for cats fishing reward scheme (Martin)
    • caught up with catsfishing docs (Juan)
  • waku:general-incentives
    • reviewed RLN specs PR (Frederico)
    • discussing the credits system with the team and analyzing tokenomic potential and bottlenecks (Martin)
  • status:SNT-staking
    • following latest edits (Martin)
  • others
    • research and a call with the distribution platform devs on bonding curve design (Martin)
    • suggesting a points system for ordinals (Martin)
    • exploring project ideas for ETHOnline (Martin)
    • research and a call with the distribution platform devs on bonding curve design (Juan)
    • reviewed/discussed points system for ordinals (Juan)

This week:

  • nomos:selfish-behavior
    • to continue the required coding for this study (Juan)
    • to continue the required coding for this study (Frederico)
  • codex:cdx
    • To Collab with Frederico's tasks (Juan)
    • To keep working on code, making it more granular etc. (Juan)
    • to define the basic aspects of the CDX token (Frederico)
    • to review Codex latest developments on L2 pricing (Frederico)
    • to review TKE wording in the Codex Whitepaper (Frederico)
  • status:L2-deployment
    • To staart unifying docs on catsFishing (Juan)
    • Prepare meeting with Ned for after Sept. 1 (Juan)
    • waiting for Cyp to describe the incentive framework to provide feedback (Martin)
    • detailed suggestions for cats fishing reward scheme - researching further dual token model (Martin)
    • discuss with Cats Fishing the probability of a fish biting the hook (Frederico)
  • waku:general-incentives
    • getting familiar with and following the discussion around the RLN Solidity contract (Martin)
  • Other
    • Work on requests from Based (distribution platform) on bonding curve, Uni, and sybils (Juan)
    • reviewing the points system for ordinals, additional feedback (Martin)
    • hacking solo at ETHOnline hackathon (Martin)

Blockers: None

QA: Last week:

This week:

  • waku:interop-testing-02

    • collect a list of known nwaku issues reported to github(@Florin)
    • implement tests related to:(@Florin)
      • waku metrics
      • waku log errors
  • nomos:test-automation-data-availability

  • vac:test-automation-nim-libp2p

    • Gossipsub(@Alex)
      • Finish Peer discovery
        • Fix resub after unsub test.
      • Continue next block

Blocker:

DST: Last week:

  • vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:midscale:
    • Creating a new branch for concurrent log analysis
    • Continued simulations with perf analysis for Gabriel
    • Meeting with Zoltan + Ivan re: message duplication
      • Consistently happens in TWN
      • We should try multiple different versions
  • admin/misc
    • Finished backups for DST-DeepResearch machine teardown
    • Meeting with @corpetty re: understanding and measuring distributed systems and their properties
  • vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:10k:
    • Ran 10K sim and had to abort it after a few minutes due to CPU/RAM/scheduling issues - didn't make it all the way up to 10K which is unusual.

This week:

  • vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:midscale:
    • Finish the new concurrent anaylsis branch
    • Modify the Waku with perf deployment so that it gracefully shuts down Waku nodes
    • Run new simulation and give perf results to Gabriel
    • Message duplication issue
      • Attempt mixing versions of Waku and seeing if it still occurs
  • admin/misc
    • Roadmap update
      • Would like to have a meeting on Tuesday w/Alberto (Ksr optional but welcome) re: roadmap and go over the changes together
      • Add: Codex milestone
      • Modify: Visualiser milestone
      • Review if we need to change anything immediately as part of output from the meeting with Corey
  • vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:10k
  • vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:midscale

SC: Last week:

This week:

Blocker:

ACZ: Last week:

  • zerokit:vac:maintenance

    • Finished stateless feature. Now PR ready fo review
    • Fixed bug with no running test in this PR
    • Started working on issue with adding timestamp into signal. Based on this issue in waku
  • secure-channels:waku:mls-poc

    • Discuss the necessity and features of benchmarks with Ekaterina.
    • Discuss the content of de-mls testnet with Ekaterina.
    • Fixed linter error from smart contract PR
    • Created new demo
    • Review of latest PRs.
    • Started theoretical analysis of deMLS.
  • anon:vac:gossipsub-anonymity

    • Review of latest PRs.
    • Found an issue with filler and beta computation in our spec - fixed the issue, updated the implementation.
    • Sphinx packet wrapping and unwrapping works correctly as in test_sphinx.nim.
  • admin/misc

  • consulting:codex:proxy-re-encryption

    • Creation of draft for a forum post on Codex research.
    • Started research on the cryptographic components of Codex.

This week:

  • zerokit:vac:maintenance
    • Finish issue about adding timestamp into signal. Based on this issue in waku
    • Integrate stateless into rln-wasm regarding release plan
  • secure-channels:waku:mls-poc
    • Theoretical analysis of deMLS. Includes discussions with Ekaterina and Ugur.
    • Finish reviewing de-mls PR.
    • Determining the new milestone for de-mls testnet and benchmark for poc
  • admin/misc
  • anon:vac:gossipsub-anonymity
    • Move the mixnet milestone from DR to ACZ and enhance the related milestone.
    • Update Notion page and PR with the filler and beta computation changes.
    • Perform additional tests with sphinx packet wrapping and unwrapping.
    • Implement anonymized libp2p ping.

Blocker:

DR: Last week:

  • admin/misc

  • gsub-scaling:vac:unstructured-p2p-improvements-survey

    • Studied different articles/blogs regarding p2p protocols' performance/improvements. Added relevant works to zotero (under VacP2P/P2P)
  • gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-paper

  • zk:codex:zk-consulting

    • Finished notes on Spartan and Pari

This week:

  • gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-paper

    • Work on [large message improvements article.
  • admin/misc

    • Continue organizing notions page
  • zk:codex:zk-consulting

    • Work on node aggregation

Blockers: none

Nescience: Last week: This week: Blocker: