2023-07-31 Vac weekly

• vc::Deep Research
  • milestone (20%, 2023/11/30) paper on gossipsub improvements ready for submission
    • proposed solution section
  • milestone (15%, 2023/08/31) Nimbus Tor-push PoC
    • establishing torswitch and testing code
  • milestone (15%, 2023/11/30) paper on Tor push validator privacy
  • addressed feedback on current version of paper
• vsu::P2P
  • nim-libp2p: (100%, 2023/07/31) GossipSub optimizations for ETH’s EIP-4844
    • Merged IDontWant (https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/934) & Limit flood publishing (https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/911) 𝕏
    • This wraps up the “mandatory” optimizations for 4844. We will continue working on stagger sending and other optimizations
  • nim-libp2p: (70%, 2023/07/31) WebRTC transport
• vsu::Tokenomics
  • admin/misc
    • 2 CCs off for the week
  • milestone (30%, 2023/09/30) Codex economic analysis, Codex token utility, Codex collateral management
  • milestone (50%, 2023/08/30) SNT staking smart contract
  • milestone (50%, 2023/07/14) SNT litepaper
  • milestone (30%, 2023/09/29) Nomos Token: requirements and constraints
• vsu::Distributed Systems Testing
  • admin/misc
    • Analysis module extracted from wakurtosis repo (https://github.com/vacp2p/wakurtosis/pull/142, https://github.com/vacp2p/DST-Analysis)
    • hiring
  • milestone (99%, 2023/07/31) Wakurtosis Waku Report
    • Re-run simulations
    • merge Discv5 PR (https://github.com/vacp2p/wakurtosis/pull/129).
    • finalize Wakurtosis Tech Report v2
  • milestone (100%, 2023/07/31) Nomos CI testing
    • delivered first version of Nomos CI integration (https://github.com/vacp2p/wakurtosis/pull/141)
  • milestone (30%, 2023/08/31 gossipsub model: Status control messages
    • Waku model is updated to model topics/content-topics
• vip::zkVM
  • milestone(50%, 2023/08/31) background/research on existing proof systems (nova, sangria…)
    • achievment :: nova questions answered (see document in Project: https://www.notion.so/zkVM-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451)
    • Nescience WIP done (to be delivered next week, priority)
    • FHE review (lower prio)
  • milestone (50%, 2023/08/31) new fair benchmarks + recursive implementations
    • Working on discoveries about other benchmarks done on plonky2, starky, and halo2
  • zkvm
  • zerokit
    • fixed ark-circom master
    • achievment :: publish ark-circom https://crates.io/crates/ark-circom
    • achievment :: publish zerokit_utils https://crates.io/crates/zerokit_utils
    • achievment :: publish rln https://crates.io/crates/rln (𝕏 jointly with RLNP2P)
• vip::RLNP2P
  • milestone (100%, 2023/07/31) RLN-Relay Waku production readiness
    • Updated rln-contract to be more modular - and downstreamed to waku fork of rln-contract - https://github.com/vacp2p/rln-contract and http://github.com/waku-org/waku-rln-contract
    • Deployed to sepolia
    • Fixed rln enabled docker image building in nwaku - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1853
  • zerokit:
    • achievement :: zerokit v0.3.0 release done - https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/releases/tag/v0.3.0 (𝕏 jointly with zkVM)