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Vac 2024/03/18

admin/misc
- reviewed CVs (Frederico)
- Interviews with candidates (Martin)
nomos:mixnet-incentives
- developed a pricing model for packets routed through the mixnet (Frederico)
- modified Nym reward allocation mechanism to Nomos constraints (Frederico)
codex:cdx
- designed the CDX insurance model (Frederico)
status:L2-deployment
- kicked off a list of L2 comparables, focused on business models and ecosystem incentivization (Frederico)
- Kicking off work on incentives for L2 (Martin)
waku:rln-membership:
- Proposing new RLN membership structures to the team - other than price per membership (Martin)
- Follow-ups to Franck's response to our material we presented last week (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)

waku:test-automation-sharding
- Finished js-waku sharding tests and prepared PR for review(@Florin)
- Issues found:(@Florin)
  - Allow subscribeToContentTopic to use other cluster IDs
  - ApplicationInfo to PubsubTopic doesn't take clusterId into consideration
waku:interop-testing
- Created scripts to help reproduce bugs 2512 and 1034(@Florin)
- Improve logs for manual debug(@Florin)
- Found go-waku regression/issue(@Florin)
- Waku node health/reliability Issue 2369 - updated and Issue 165 - updated(@Roman)
waku:test-automation-go-waku
- Improve unit test coverage for peermanager(@Roman)
- Issues found:(@Roman)
  - Metadata might not always be available
  - Describe topic event transition between libp2p and peer manager level
- Improve unit test coverage for peer exchange(@Roman)
- Improve unit test coverage for Discv5(@Roman)
waku:test-automation-nwaku
- Resultify fetchPeerExchangePeers(@Alex)
- Simplify imports(@Alex)
- Fix and add test cases for Metadata protocol disconnecting light clients 2491(@Alex)
- Merge Peer Exchange Tests PR(@Alex)
- Merge Discv5 PR(@Alex)

rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-v2
- rln-relay v2 integrated into nwaku: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2345
secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
- Prepare a Notion page containing a specification for the DCGKA algorithm.
- Think and propose solutions to some the DCGKA limitations.
- https://www.notion.so/DCGKA-Specification-5a0b67a3ce674ae3a5220b560015cd2c#8f9f17014e5a479788da2544d64a993e
- Study Ramses' notes in Notion
- Read about Jitsi in this paper
- Read about difficulties on decentralization of MLS section 8.5 of paper
misc
- gnark-rln implementation: https://github.com/vacp2p/gnark-rln
- added multiple curves to rust stealth address repo: https://github.com/vacp2p/erc-5564-rs
- assist with deploying waku-rln-contract to waku-simulator

rfc-process-restructuring
- Markdown lint does not lint files, proposed fix- https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/25
- Open the proposal to COSS changes - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/4
misc
- create website repo - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-website

valpriv:vac:val-priv-net
- Finalized and share the related proposal() https://www.notion.so/privacy-preserving-validator-network-e92ab3e563074a538bb0e13e5c9321e6
valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc
- holesky validators registration and execution
valpriv:vac:tor-push-paper
- https://www.overleaf.com/project/6499e467346d9f56b2971caa
gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-paper
- Implemented IMReceiving message for use with IDontWant message to improve GossipSub performance against v. large message. Experimental PR is available for review/discussion.
  - This is just a prototype experiment showing 40% bandwidth reduction and more than 10% latency reduction for 1MB messages.
  - Requires feedback, as it needs new message inclusion
gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation
- Conducted results for different IDontWant/IMReceiving message use cases. The results are available in VAC forum post.
zk:codex:storage-proofs-open-problems-review
- Began examining current version of Codex system's description

state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc
- Drafted document about privacy improvements for state separation (Moudy)
- Continue work on monitoring (Marvin)
- Defined new milstones (Moudy)
- Completed report about SE/DE in PDAGs see in Notion (Ugur)
proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems
- checked out this Hypernova implementation and continued reading LatticeFold (Rostyslav)
- Defined new milstones (Moudy)
proofsystems:vac:benchmarks
- Overlooked at the paper and continued researching Nova vs. Supernova/ Nova vs. Halo2 recursion vs. aggregation (Moudy)
- Defined new milstones (Moudy)
- Worked on enhancing Nova-Scotia performance (Rostyslav)
virtual-machine-creation:vac:vm-foundations
- Defined new milestones (Moudy)