2023-11-20 Vac weekly

Publicly Engaging Highlights

• presentations @ Progcrypto https://progcrypto.org/ on
  • RLN
  • Validator Privacy
  • Nescience

vac:p2p:

• nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance
  • Add Hole Punching to libp2p test-plans - https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/issues/966 and https://github.com/libp2p/test-plans/pull/322
  • fix: remove unittest2 range - https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/986
  • fix: doc workflow - https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/985
  • fix(dcutr): make the dcutr client inbound and the server outbound - https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/983
  • fix(interop-tests): don’t hardcode x86_64 for native - https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/pull/4862
  • conflicting dependency resolution - https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/issues/116
  • implementing Yamux update window: https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/987
  • Research VM hosting providers - to execute perf tests https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VL6QpDdBgYC1Ld0Nr-cpNv9bRht3nQkBQUF1pNerBDs/edit?usp=sharing
  • working on several CI issues
    • Testing Nimble lock file - deps download consistent across platforms; https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/issues/975
    • fix: move workflows for Nim Devel and legacy i386 from “Daily” -> workflows renamed to “Nim Devel” and “Legacy Platforms” https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/968
    • Daily workflow could fail randomly with [OSError] https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/issues/972
• nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport
  • Log decyphered packet
    • Failing to directly write a pcap file (it’s far more complicated than it looks)
    • Failing to use the SSLKEYLOGFILE interaction between browser & wireshark
    • Start writing a self-made logger to understand where it fails

vac:tke:

• vac:tke::codex:economic-analysis
  • Finish litepaper edits from Frederico and Martin review
  • Ping Codex on litepaper, followup discussion (@Matty)
• vac:tke::status:SNT-staking
  • Confirm with Agata on responses to the governance forum posts (@Matty)
  • Meet w/ John to plan out next steps post-website launch
• vac:tke::nomos:economic-analysis
  • Continuing research of PoS economics and token distributions, participating in Nomos offsite discussions (@Frederico)
• vac:tke::waku:economic-analysis
  • DevConnect and Waku offsite (@Martin)
  • Researching EigenTrust use for Waku reputation system (@Matty)

vac:dst:

• analysis-shadow:vac:shadow-gossipsub-analysis
  • cont’ with various simulation runs; does not scale to larger message sizes because of RAM limit (a burst of nine 500KB msgs, 500 nodes was too much for 256GB RAM)
• vac:dst:software-testing:waku:test-automation-interop-testing
  • Addressed review comments and merged 2nd PR to reach 27 tests for relay publish
    • Draft 3rd PR:
    • make framework support dynamic number of nodes
      • add multi-node tests (that work on any number of nodes)
  • Multiple issues found:
    • gowaku:
      • 2 regressions (container sometimes crashes + log spam) on lastest master
      • REST API error handling discrepancies
    • nwaku:
      • REST API request fails if request contains meta or rate_limit_proof fields
    • rest-api-specs: missing fields in the REST API schema
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-js-waku
  • Add summary with link to report to the js-waku CI test job
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-nwaku
  • PR Train Merged
    • PR 2085
    • PR 2095
    • PR 2096
    • PR 2101
    • PR 2138
  • Fix compilation and tests failing after PR train
    • PR 2222
    • PR 2224
  • Implementing store tests
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-go-waku
  • Wrote 7 tests related to filter push - valid data https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/904
  • Test fixes to extend message timeout https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/911

vac:acz:

• rlnp2p:waku:rln-doc-and-outreach
  • presented RLN @ Progcrypto
• secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
  • Worked towards moving the algorithms involved in the Ethereum chat to Noise terms. In particular: XEdDSA and DR.
  • Start working on ADKG. https://www.notion.so/WiP-ADKG-e83e24612abc41a7bf292e96660ab833
• zerokit:vac:maintenance
  • fixed nightly zerokit build failure
  • merged PR 223 (https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/223)

vac:sc::

• vac:maintainance/misc
  • Review Certora PR for OP SNT repository
• status:community-contracts-maintenance
  • Redeployed contracts to Goerli for updated version https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/pull/23
  • Deployed contracts to Arbitrum Goerli and Arbitrum Sepolia
  • Verified contracts on Sepolia
• status:token-import
  • started working on the Vault contract

vac:nescience:

• proofsystems:vac:benchmarks
  • present Nescience @ progcrypto
  • Prepared a PR for a GWC implementation of poseidon circuit for halo2 https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/17
  • Prepared a PR for a SHPLONK implementation of poseidon circuit for halo2 https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/18
• state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc
  • Research mimblewimble (part of enhanced privacy)
  • Research verkle trees specific to kzg and ipa (part of flexibility in operations, and joint with Codex’s future needs)

vac:dr:

• gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-paper
  • Completed the GossipSub improvements paper, with the exception of the results and discussion part. Reflected the feedback and current works as well.
• valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc
  • talk @progcrypto

vac:rfc:

• status:port-status-specs
  • Updated 71/STATUS-PUSH-NOTIFICATION RFC https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/629
• waku:waku-keystore
  • Updated draft - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/631