2024-01-29 Vac weekly

Vac 2024/01/29

vac:p2p:

• nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport
  • Fix some bugs related to our way of debugging
  • Deep dive into JS js libp2p for interop testing
  • working on figuring out why the noise handshake is blocked by the JS
• nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance
  • Help Waku with a websocket issue
• nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-stagger-send
  • cont’ work on making forward messages non priority - https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/1009

vac:tke:

• codex:economic-analysis
  • add insurer role to the litepaper (@Matty)
  • make sure litepaper is up-to-date (address comments, etc.) (@Matty)
• status:SNT-staking
  • get general plan from John on Tuesday (@Martin)
  • review litepaper and TDC (@Matty)
• nomos:economic-analysis
  • Clean up Nomos Notion and update TDC (@Frederico)
  • Finish agent based simulations on wealth concentration impacted by leader selection (@Frederico)
  • Read darkpaper when Nomos team has finished incorporating team comments and can share (expect next week)
• waku:economic-analysis
  • prepare for meeting with Matt Nemmer (@Martin)
  • research around sustainability model following Franck post (@Martin)
  • work on L2 discussion with Cyprien (@Martin)
  • review litepaper and TDC (@Matty)

vac:dst:

• eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test:
  • Talk with p2p team about control messages; Found error in compilation
  • Add queue metrics data to Prometheus/Grafana
    • Do simulations and check this metric
    • Metrics are scrapped but building is failing
  • Pushed go-waku in kubernetes
    • “Reached” 2k nodes, but there is a huge packet loss and latency times. Didn’t try more because it was consuming 1Gig of Bandwidth, and didn’t want to get the servers blocked again.
• admin/misc
  • Prepare onboarding new team member

vac:qa:

• software-testing:waku:test-plans
  • RLN test plan(@Florin)
  • RLN issues found:
    • Spam messages not dropped(@Florin)
    • Postgres error regression(@Florin)
    • Relayed messages are not stored(@Florin)
  • KEYSTORE_PASSWORD env variable issue(@Roman)
  • RLN meeting discussion(@QA_Team)
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-go-waku
  • Remove dependency on hardcoded private keys for Ganache(@Roman)
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-nwaku
  • Prepared local dev enviroment(@Roman)
  • RLN
    • Implemented more RLN tests PR(@Alex)
    • Found unintended behaviour where RLN wasn’t enabled for all intended topics(@Alex)
  • Autosharding
    • Review and discard mock-related PR(@Alex)

vac:acz:

• rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-v2
  • downstreamed rln-v2 to waku-rln-contract: https://github.com/waku-org/waku-rln-contract/pull/11, with full test coverage
  • removed websocket dependence from waku-rln-relay: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2364 (improves robustness, pre-requisite for rln-v2 integration)
• secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
  • Completion of the internal notes on Quarantined TreeKEM (https://www.notion.so/WiP-Notes-on-the-MLS-protocol-cccc3faad97b4c00ae88bdec40f58e1e)
  • Improvements on the RFC. RFC ready (review required). (https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/blob/master/content/docs/rfcs/70/README.md)
  • Detect two possible gaps against the implementation one is xed448 in and Quarantined TreeKEM in Rust
• zerokit:vac:maintenance
  • fixed some infallible conversions: https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/229
  • stumbled upon rayon issue here https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/issues/55, read rayon docs, trying to find a solution

vac:sc::

• admin/misc
  • on-site Certora training

vac:nescience:

• state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc
  • Defined the new Roadmap including different tasks and deadlines
  • Researched signature verification and Adress hiding in (Shielded and Deshielded) executions (Marvin)
  • Researched Deshielded and Shielded execution vs. different approaches to define and expand the proposal (Moudy)
  • Identified security issues on the combination of SE and DE and proposed possible salt mechanism as a possible solution to the issue (WIP)(Uugur)
• proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems
  • Finished writing CycleFold writeup (Rostyslav)
• proofsystems:vac:benchmarks
  • Explored Arecibo and started updating the documentation (Moudy)
  • Explored the 2 different Halo2 implementation variants and started updating the documentation (Moudy)
  • Researched adn explored how recursion works in different ZKP we are benchmarking (Moudy)
  • Finished working on a refactoring for [halo2 PRs](https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/22 https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/21) (Rostyslav)
  • Got refactoring [halo2 PRs](https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/22 https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/21) merged (Rostyslav)
  • Started working on arecibo benchmark (Rostyslav)

vac:dr:

• gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-paper
  • Used newly implemented queues (with event fire) to form weighted queues. But event fire mechanism results in much higher delays
  • Trying to enable weighted queue forwarding to support message staggering

vac:rfc:

• misc
  • Worked on new RFC index repo - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/1
  • Waku message update ready for review - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/655
  • Started waku v2 (spec 10) update - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/661