2024-03-18 Vac weekly

Vac 2024/03/18 §

vac:p2p: §

• nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance
  • preparing interview
  • reviewing PRs
  • Graceful Shutdown (1007) Fix
    • PR
  • Single topic for RPC Message (1052)
    • PR Update PR with suggestions

vac:tke: §

• admin/misc
  • reviewed CVs (Frederico)
  • Interviews with candidates (Martin)
• nomos:mixnet-incentives
  • developed a pricing model for packets routed through the mixnet (Frederico)
  • modified Nym reward allocation mechanism to Nomos constraints (Frederico)
• codex:cdx
  • designed the CDX insurance model (Frederico)
• status:L2-deployment
  • kicked off a list of L2 comparables, focused on business models and ecosystem incentivization (Frederico)
  • Kicking off work on incentives for L2 (Martin)
• waku:rln-membership:
  • Proposing new RLN membership structures to the team - other than price per membership (Martin)
  • Follow-ups to Franck’s response to our material we presented last week (Martin)
• status:SNT-staking
  • Continue to monitor development and give feedback for the staking contract (Martin)
  • Assist the SC team in further checks and definition of testing scenarios (Martin)

vac:dst: §

• eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test
  • Finish plotter module tests and prepare PR (ongoing)
  • Improve framework scraping interval (https://github.com/vacp2p/10ksim/issues/8)
  • Try kubernetes API portforwading again
  • Simulations:
    • Updated waku to 0.26
    • Changed some parameters (flags, memory available, etc)
    • Results with 3k matches perfectly with 1K in terms of bandwidth.
      • Bootstrap now doens’t crash. Caused by OOM previously.
• eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test
  • Various simulations, gathering additional data
  • Calls with @Alberto, helping fix scraping
  • Attempted to get hardware offloading working on existing ConnectX-4 LX adapters
    • Conclusion was it’s not possible (NVIDIA deprecated the offloading for CX4LX) but we’re now in a good place to try offloading on the new CX6s once they arrive
    • CX6s are at the post office waiting for pickup -> installation
• admin/misc
  • Met with Codex team re: helping with Codex testnet

vac:qa: §

• waku:test-automation-sharding
  • Finished js-waku sharding tests and prepared PR for review(@Florin)
  • Issues found:(@Florin)
    • Allow subscribeToContentTopic to use other cluster IDs
    • ApplicationInfo to PubsubTopic doesn’t take clusterId into consideration
• waku:interop-testing
  • Created scripts to help reproduce bugs 2512 and 1034(@Florin)
  • Improve logs for manual debug(@Florin)
  • Found go-waku regression/issue(@Florin)
  • Waku node health/reliability Issue 2369 - updated and Issue 165 - updated(@Roman)
• waku:test-automation-go-waku
  • Improve unit test coverage for peermanager(@Roman)
  • Issues found:(@Roman)
    • Metadata might not always be available
    • Describe topic event transition between libp2p and peer manager level
  • Improve unit test coverage for peer exchange(@Roman)
  • Improve unit test coverage for Discv5(@Roman)
• waku:test-automation-nwaku
  • Resultify fetchPeerExchangePeers(@Alex)
  • Simplify imports(@Alex)
  • Fix and add test cases for Metadata protocol disconnecting light clients 2491(@Alex)
  • Merge Peer Exchange Tests PR(@Alex)
  • Merge Discv5 PR(@Alex)

vac:acz: §

• rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-v2
  • rln-relay v2 integrated into nwaku: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2345
• secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
  • Prepare a Notion page containing a specification for the DCGKA algorithm.
  • Think and propose solutions to some the DCGKA limitations.
  • https://www.notion.so/DCGKA-Specification-5a0b67a3ce674ae3a5220b560015cd2c#8f9f17014e5a479788da2544d64a993e
  • Study Ramses’ notes in Notion
  • Read about Jitsi in this paper
  • Read about difficulties on decentralization of MLS section 8.5 of paper
• misc
  • gnark-rln implementation: https://github.com/vacp2p/gnark-rln
  • added multiple curves to rust stealth address repo: https://github.com/vacp2p/erc-5564-rs
  • assist with deploying waku-rln-contract to waku-simulator

vac:sc:: §

• status:staking-contracts-v1
  • Merged coverage improvements
  • Finished ironing out all pending certora rules
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/81
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/82
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/85
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/86
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/57
• • status:community-contracts-token-import
    • Reviewed/discussed migration options for community vaults
      • https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/issues/32#issuecomment-1997000297
• vac:maintainance/misc
  • Research on ENS Usernames to change release delay

vac:rfc: §

• rfc-process-restructuring
  • Markdown lint does not lint files, proposed fix- https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/25
  • Open the proposal to COSS changes - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/4
• misc
  • create website repo - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-website

vac:dr: §

• valpriv:vac:val-priv-net
  • Finalized and share the related proposal() https://www.notion.so/privacy-preserving-validator-network-e92ab3e563074a538bb0e13e5c9321e6
• valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc
  • holesky validators registration and execution
• valpriv:vac:tor-push-paper
  • https://www.overleaf.com/project/6499e467346d9f56b2971caa
• gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-paper
  • Implemented IMReceiving message for use with IDontWant message to improve GossipSub performance against v. large message. Experimental PR is available for review/discussion.
    • This is just a prototype experiment showing 40% bandwidth reduction and more than 10% latency reduction for 1MB messages.
    • Requires feedback, as it needs new message inclusion
• gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation
  • Conducted results for different IDontWant/IMReceiving message use cases. The results are available in VAC forum post.
• zk:codex:storage-proofs-open-problems-review
  • Began examining current version of Codex system’s description

vac:nes: §

• state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc
  • Drafted document about privacy improvements for state separation (Moudy)
  • Continue work on monitoring (Marvin)
  • Defined new milstones (Moudy)
  • Completed report about SE/DE in PDAGs see in Notion (Ugur)
• proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems
  • checked out this Hypernova implementation and continued reading LatticeFold (Rostyslav)
  • Defined new milstones (Moudy)
• proofsystems:vac:benchmarks
  • Overlooked at the paper and continued researching Nova vs. Supernova/ Nova vs. Halo2 recursion vs. aggregation (Moudy)
  • Defined new milstones (Moudy)
  • Worked on enhancing Nova-Scotia performance (Rostyslav)
• virtual-machine-creation:vac:vm-foundations
  • Defined new milestones (Moudy)