2024-05-21 Vac weekly

Vac 2024/05/21 §

vac:p2p: §

• nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance
  • check use outside test definition https://github.com/status-im/nim-unittest2/issues/43
  • feat(service): add wildcard address resolver https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1099

vac:tke: §

• `admin“
  • 1.5 CC day off
• codex:cdx
  • read Codex business related docs (Frederico)
  • reviewed and extended Codex’ Incentive Mechanisms (Frederico)
  • Reviewing internal and external materials (Martin)
  • Commented on Codex tokenomics and on investor strategy docs (Juan)
• nomos:cryptarchia-wealth-concentration-known-stake
  • continued the restructure of the previous work under a newly defined strategy (Frederico)
• status:L2-deployment
  • caught up with the current state (Frederico)
  • Looking into further L2 economic models, internal discussions (Martin)
  • Discussion with LiFi team (Juan)
  • Finished writeup on swap aggregator (Juan)
• waku:general-incentives
  • caught up with the current state (Frederico)
  • Sync with the Waku team and mapping out potential for TKE support after reprioritization (Martin)
  • Updating Waku Tokenomics Notion (Martin)
• status:SNT-staking
  • Chats with potential partners for the swap product; analysis of the industry (Martin)

vac:dst: §

• vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:midscale
  • Repeated deployments with waku v0.26
    • 1 to 3K nodes, with 1 msg per 1, 5, 10 seconds
• vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:10k
  • Ran 10K deployments to test noise levels post-insulation
  • Continued work on metrics + DNS stability
• vac:dst:tooling:vac:visualiser-tool:
  • Finished implementing the visualization part as a Jupyter notebook
    • Still remaining: Evaluate how to propperly visualize thousands of nodes
• vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:vac:libp2p-version-testing
  • Analyzed Yamux issue
    • Looks like keep-alive flag was the root of the cause (at waku level).
• vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:codex:testnet
  • Migrated Codex VacLab storage to SeaweedFS
  • Re-created Codex Kubernetes access

vac:qa: §

• waku:interop-testing
  • store content topic fix(@Florin)
  • store v3 PR(@Florin)
  • worked with SP to translate the store v3 message hashing mechanism from nim to python (@Florin)
  • investigated with Richard some interop store v3 issues(@Florin)
  • update lightpush tests with big payloads based on latest nwaku fix(@Florin)
• waku:test-automation-sharding
  • Merge Nwaku PR and closed the milestone(@Alex)
• waku:test-automation-nwaku
  • Merge Peer & Connection Management PR and closed the milestone(@Alex)
• waku:test-automation-rln
  • Finally get node to node onchain test working(@Alex)
  • Briefly investigate alternative methods. Didn’t manage to get it working, left for later, worth investigating: Improve developer experience and discard potential bugs.(@Alex)
• nomos:test-automation-cryptarchia
  • Read Nomos documentation and related papers(@Alex)
• admin/misc
  • Catch up with things that I missed while on vacation(@Florin)
  • OOO All week(@Roman)

vac:acz: §

• secure-channels:waku:fd-design
  • Improvements on the DCGKA-based approach
  • Document the UPKE scheme
  • Created a small doc about ERC ERC-725 and ERC-735 in Notion
  • Study on a proposal authentication protocol based on SIWE + AS together.
  • Read Ramses’ UPKE notes
• secure-channels:waku:mls-design
  • Started preparing the talk for Brussels.
• zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.5
  • merged PR about getting subtree root: subtree root PR
  • found bugs in tree behavior: Incorrect behavior of trees in override_range function
  • merged PR about checking and storing zero leaves indices: zero leaves PR
  • in part of zero leaves PR: started to research better implementation for leaves storage (done with the idea of using bloom filter and its improvements - both had worse performance)
• rlnp2p:waku:rln-doc-and-outreach
  • wrapped up and published rln-v3 rlog
• secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
  • started implementing design of de-MLS smart contracts
• rlnp2p:waku:rlnv2-e2e
  • new milestone discussion and agreement with waku research
  • started converting waku-rln-contract to standalone repo since their requirements are more specific now
• stealth-address-kit:vac:research
  • presented stealth address kit to the EIP Discussions call with the SC t

vac:sc:: §

vac:nim: §

• tooling:vac:compiler
  • Updates nimble https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/23601 After it gets merged it needs to be backported.
  • Backport: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/23600 https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/23599
• tooling:vac:editor
  • Auto updates lsp when the local lsp is used (https://github.com/nim-lang/vscode-nim/commit/1b542e337095b74260b94e5f9ede5715035eafc5)
  • Upload the artifacts from the last release so user can get the extension without using the marketplace: https://github.com/nim-lang/vscode-nim/releases/tag/v0.9.0

vac:rfc: §

• codex:specs-init
  • Updated CODEX-MARKETPLACE rfc, ready for another round of feedback - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/36
  • Created new dispersal rfc, still in draft - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/39
• nomos:specs-init
  • Worked on data availibility rfc, work still in progess
• vac:rfc-index
  • moved vac raw specs to raw folder - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/37
  • created pr to move rln-v1 to draft, still in draft - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/40

vac:dr: §

• gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation
  • Completed staggered message sending approach for current (priority queues). The branch is available as draft PR for discussions.
  • The implementation shows upto 5% latency gains on most of the test runs, and significant bandwidth saving is achieved.
• zk:codex:zk-consulting
  • Worked on questions that Codex raised concerning Beyond the Circuit that they have.
  • Began reviewing proposed proof algorithm draft
  • Provided feedback on notes 1 and 2.
• vac:admin
  • Worked on BloomFilter, KZG, and Verkle Trees blogs and presentation for LOGOS research call.
  • Provided feedback on Akshaya’s notes as requested 1, 2, 3, 4.
• vac:dr:anon:vac:gossipsub-anonymity
  • Synced with Daniel on current progress and milestone.
  • Researched onion encryption for anonymous routing in GossipSub (WiP) and other mixnet solutions for comparison.
  • Began reading On the Anonymity of Peer-To-Peer Network Anonymity Schemes Used by Cryptocurrencies to understand the attack on Dandelion better

vac:nes: §

• state-separation:vac:state-separation-architecture-01
  • Reviewed and discussed the architecuture of state separation and took some decisions regarding the smart contracts types (Ugur + Moudy)
  • Improved the prototype by adding private-only and public-only smart contracts (Ugur)
  • Created examples of executions consist of two functions for end-to-end execution (Moudy + Ugur)
• proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems
  • Started working on a writeup about Greco zk proofs (Rostyslav)
• proofsystems:vac:benchmarks
  • Did further review on what should be included in the blogpost (was put on hold to finish the zkvms research list etc) (Moudy)
• virtual-machine-creation:vac:vm-foundations
  • Published a detailed issue including the list of the Zkvms that we need to look into and all the requirements to cover (Moudy)
  • Started researching existing zkVM’s (Team)