2023-10-16 Vac weekly

vac:p2p:

• nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport
  • Started to implement DataChannel in WebRTC: https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/4
  • Started to implement the WebRTC transport in libp2p: https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/
  • rework of UDP / Stun / Dtls / Sctp https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/
• nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-ddos-mitigation
  • https://github.com/libp2p/jvm-libp2p/pull/336

vac:tke:

• vac:tke::codex:economic-analysis
  • Met w/ Codex and reviewed the marketplace workflows, identified many updates for litepaper (@Matty)
  • Will update litepaper incorporating feedback, and update Codex modeling, reconnect after their offsite
• vac:tke::status:SNT-staking
  • Update notion docs with links to all latest governance proposals
  • Assigning issues in Github to SC team, and submit pull reqs, primarily on dependency the claims, and how restaking works (@Martin)
  • Continuing revamp of economic model/projections, review early approach w/John (@Matty)
• vac:tke::nomos:economic-analysis
  • Frederico remains in regular communication with Alvaro and Marcin, continuing on Private Addressing research (@Frederico)
  • Reviewing similar challenges ETH is also considering, changes to economic model for adding native delegation
• vac:tke::waku:economic-analysis
  • Had a call with Aaryamann and Sergei last week, they had followup questions on fleshing out pros/cons of various design approaches to RLN stake (@Martin)

vac:dst:

• analysis-shadow:vac:shadow-gossipsub-analysis
  • Fixed timestamp bug
  • Updated traffic injection to continuous operation
  • Created IPFS mesh slices of arbitrary time length
• analysis:nomos:simulation-analysis
  • Finally zero’d in on the tree/branch bug. The pre and post-analysis are fine, the bug is in the Carnot sim.
  • The view installation time distribution with network delays is now done
• dr-support:vac:carnot-2-3rds-python-impl
  • investigate Carnot sim code
• eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test
  • Finish exporting metrics (delayed)
  • Make sure new CIDR configuration supports 10k PODs
• wakurtosis:vac:rlog
  • finish simulations
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-js-waku
  • New tests:
    • Relay[WIP]
  • Improvements:
    • Speed up execution from 12m to 3.5m for 250 tests through parallelization(Significant refactoring needed to achieve this)
    • Follow up fix to only allow paralellization in CI env
  • Fixes:
    • Updated tests after gowaku store fixes
    • Updated tests after remote peer rejected error
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-nwaku
  • Relay and message id tests
    • PR
  • Merge filter subscribe PRs; Pending unsubscribe, missing one review.
  • Heavily investigate issues shown on tests
    • Max 1MB message size, no graceful handle.
    • After stopping and restarting a relay node, can’t reconnect it with connectRelay.
    • Can’t stop a relay node and send a message: Inconsistent with filter push behaviour.
    • Publishing multiple messages in a row triggers the same SEGFAULT as when refreshing a subscription.
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-go-waku
  • Wrote five tests - were added to the branch https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/tree/chore(filterV2)-test-updates
  • Reported issue “Messages won’t get through with multiple pubsub topics” https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/804
  • Tracking coverage as notes so far -> will change to tabular form. Notion has API, we could possibly update docs during test execution? https://www.notion.so/Filter-Test-Coverage-42fc15b503ec4621980a7757d85089db?pvs=4

vac:acz:

• rlnp2p:waku:rln-doc-and-outreach
  • worked on the rln rlog - https://github.com/vacp2p/vac.dev/pull/132
• misc
  • explored next iteration of rln, which includes message sizes within the proof
• rlnp2p:waku:multi-epoch-constraint
  • Keep working on a solution for the problem. (https://www.notion.so/WiP-Multi-epoch-Constraints-a5b648b98c46461187563d6c1e094468)
• secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
  • Keep improving the level of detail in the description of the WiP towards the creation of an RFC. (https://www.notion.so/WiP-Secure-Ethereum-Chat-f69ff155456c4fdeb719aba96fd7a8ab)

vac:sc::

• status:snt-staking-contract-maintenance
  • Added additional tests
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/27
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/36
  • Use custom errors over error strings
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/28
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/29
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/30
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/35
  • Some cleanup
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/26
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/25
  • Introduced VaultFactory
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/38
• status:community-contracts-maintenance
  • Deployed community token deployer contracts to Sepolia
    • https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/pull/20
• codex:review-codex-contracts
  • Did a first quick review of the code, notes can be found here
    • https://www.notion.so/Codex-Marketplace-Contracts-337a2e38fa574a2d8ffb589f4f599

vac:nescience:

• state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc
  • Finished and shared a new document about state separation techniques
  • Keep researching and adding updates
• proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems
  • Still working on Proof Creation and Verification (Goal 3 for Nescience), specifically trying to identify novel techniques
  • Considering article for Nescience
  • Continuous readings on bulding secure zkVMs
  • discussion on Sona proof system (from Lasso paper) and alternatives (Hyrax, KZG, FRI)
  • Reserched the connection between plonky2 and starky
• proofsystems:vac:benchmarks
  • Starting a draft for an article (overleaf)
  • working on Halo2 benchmark

vac:dr:

• valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc
  • Getting fleet nimbus node measurements.
  • For PR, over 11 days, monitored attestation success with near zero attestation drop rate, effectiveness 89%
  • Investigating why opt. incl distance degrades occassionally
• valpriv:vac:tor-push-paper
  • Added changes in https://www.overleaf.com/project/6499e467346d9f56b2971ca
• gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation
  • Digged deeper into the gossipsub implementation in nim-lib-p2p.
  • Modified handling of large messages in the existing implementation. Modified message relaying behavior
    • We relay the large messages to only d_low peers and other peer are sent an IDONTWANT message.
    • Unreceived large messages are requested using IWANT message.
    • We save approximately 40% bandwidth, on cost of approximately 2 RTTs to the opverall message latency
• consensus:nomos:carnot-vote-2-3rds-vote-aggregation
  • Writing the psuedocode (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)

vac:rfc:

• status:port-status-specs
  • reviewed waku usage of status, draft of rfc