2024-02-05 Vac weekly

Vac 2024/02/05

vac:p2p:

• nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport
  • Fix a bug in Datachannel.read (reading the last message received instead of the first one)
  • Fix a bug due to an Sctp delay (set it to 0ms was the solution)
  • Find a bug in the conception of WebRTCStream. ReadOnce should be Length-prefixed.
    • try to fix it by re-writing ReadOnce, but due to the nature of this proc (inheritance issue) it doesn’t work
    • write a RawWebRTCStream to make the length readable without issue
  • Fix a bug with the endianness of the datachannel protocol id
  • E2E Done!
• nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-stagger-send
  • feat: make relayed messages non priority (don’t use an explicit queue for priority msgs) - https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/1015
  • feat: drop msgs to be relayed waiting for too long in the queue - https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/1015
• nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance
  • Investigate dependencies issues
    • Found possible problem/s
      • Lack of versioning
      • No major version clamping
      • Using head
    • Temporary workaround: Clamp/Pin (to git hash) libp2p dependencies’ versions
      • PR
  • Improve documentation [In Progress]
    • Building go-libp2p-daemon
    • Getting Started
    • PR
  • Merge timeout increase
  • Improved checkExpiring
    • Now it’ll outpout an error message when it fails due to timeout
      • Not the most visible message

vac:tke:

• admin/misc:
  • Matty Handoff document finished and share with team on Wed (@Matty)
  • Team Lead Evaluation Criteria finished and share with team on Wed (@Matty)
  • Strengths and development areas for Frederico and Martin, shared with Corey, Daniel, and Jarrad (@Matty)
• codex:economic-analysis
  • finalize all Codex notion including Dragan’s comments to litepaper (@Matty)
  • Wednesday call with Codex team get in sync on next steps
• status:SNT-staking
  • staking contract implementation becoming a priority, refresh latest progress with SC team (@Martin)
• nomos:economic-analysis
  • Reading whitepaper and updating TDC (@Frederico)
  • Porting wealth concentration simulation code to GPU to decrease runtimes (@Frederico)
• waku:economic-analysis
  • Continue Waku Network of Networks design discussion with Franck, concerns around forking (@Martin)
  • Research similar abstract p2p validation protocols (e.g. former Keep Network)

vac:dst:

• eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test
  • Try to get a stable nim-libp2p version for simulations. Investigated with Alex about building issues with nimble.
  • Analized libp2p metrics, everything normal so far
  • call with p2p team
  • Scale testing for 10K project
    • setup go-waku experiment at scale
    • Successfully simulated a 2,150 node simulation and gathered some basic metrics
    • Modified Kubernetes to allow for more pods to allow for (in theory) scaling to 10k+
    • Failed simulations at 10000 and 5000 nodes - current limits seem to be around ~4800 or so
    • Prometheus is a definite bottleneck - need to switch to a scaled/sharded Prometheus/Thanos setup
    • Attempting one last simulation over the weekend at 4200 nodes
  • Diagnosing 10K project bottlenecks
    • Identified a major potential bottleneck in the form of control plane traffic going over Wireguard / large packet load over WG causing swarm collapse
    • will test the new theory later by re-deploying on Vac Kubernetes with a local control plane + local traffic (while still complying with infra team requirements)

vac:qa:

• software-testing:waku:test-plans
  • Sharding test plan(@Florin)
• software-testing:waku:interop-testing
  • Relayed messages reach recently started peer with a big delay(@Florin)
  • RLN registration support and tests(@Roman)
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-go-waku
  • Reviewed remaining work and added summary and approach(@Roman)
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-nwaku
  • Clean and work with Gabriel to verify fix(@Alex)
  • Review lighpush fixes and adjust unit tests(@Alex)
    • Learned how to generate coverage report for NWaku and prepared small PR to have a shortcut(@Roman)

vac:acz:

• rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-v2
  • rln-v1 to v2 commitment migrator: https://github.com/waku-org/waku-rln-contract/pull/11/commits/886891b57ae54e439563023dd50161fec5ee29f1
  • use rln-v2 contract in nwaku: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2381
  • update c ffi bindings and serde in nwaku: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2385 (issues: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2378 and https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2377)
  • use rln-v2 in registration and membership insertion mechanism: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2392 (wip)
• secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
  • RFC updating, following comments and suggestions.
  • Discussion of use cases for the secure messaging protocol
  • Search and investigate existing secure messaging apps
• zerokit:vac:maintenance
  • worked on a workaround for this issue https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/issues/55

vac:sc::

• status:snt-staking-contract-maintenance
  • Review Certora work PR https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/47
  • Working on solutions for Staking Contact issues https://notes.status.im/lNd8kcVmQEWcDYEldpl26Q

vac:nescience:

• state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc
  • Completed research on SE and DE focusing on security issues while combining both models (Moudy)
  • Rewrote a full version of state update proposal for security and privacy threats (Moudy)
  • Researched address hiding and signature verification and wrote a proposal for address hiding and signature verification (Marvin)
  • Added a report about the security issue and a possible solution(salt mechanism) and investigated about the security of the SE/DE (Ugur)
• proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems
  • Started looking at Reverie whitepaperand BaseFold implementation (Rostyslav)
• proofsystems:vac:benchmarks
  • Finished working on arecibo benchmark (Rostyslav)

vac:dr:

• gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-paper
  • Completed message staggering in the form of weighted message queues
    • Its showing 10% better result than priority queuing, but Async Queue overhead still requires some work
• zk:codex:storage-proofs-open-problems-review
  • Begin reviewing Range Proof example

vac:rfc:

• rfc-process-restructuring
  • worked on rfc-index adding rest of rfc, fixing links, and chaging headers - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/1
  • worked on waku/specs adding rfcs - https://github.com/waku-org/specs/tree/waku-RFC