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2025-04 Vac monthly

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Vac Monthly Report 2025/04

P2P

highlights

  • Release v1.10.0
  • CI completes in ~25m, previously taking +50min
  • Stagger Send article submitted on arxiv.
  • Memory transport

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  • ift:2025q1-gossipsub-perf-improvements
  • misc/admin
  • vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-kad-dht:routing-and-rpc
    • Overview:
      • Began protobuf definitions for Kademlia DHT RPC messages
      • Initial work on FIND_NODE
    • Delivered Deliverables:
  • vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-maintenance:maintenance
    • Overview:
      • Delivered QUIC and rendezvous fixes
      • Improved Docker support for DST, and identified potential dependency issues with nim / docker images.
    • Delivered Deliverables:
  • vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-transport:memory-transport
    • Overview:
      • Implemented memory transport
    • Delivered Deliverables:
  • vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-test-coverage:qa-consulting
    • Overview:
      • reviewed and proposed major CI test optimizations;
      • partial implementation underway.
    • Delivered Deliverables:
  • vac:p2p:acz:2025q2-acz-consulting:libp2p-mix-consulting
    • Overview:
      • Resolved compilation issues and updated DST Gossipsub Test Node for mix support.
    • Delivered Deliverables:
  • vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-webtransport:http3
    • Overview:
      • Wrapped nghttp3 library
      • Ongoing development of HTTP/3 client
    • Delivered Deliverables:
  • vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-autotls:certificate-request-auth
  • vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-autotls:dns-challenge
    • Overview:
      • Added base36 support to nim-stew
      • Added libp2p-key multicodec
    • Delivered Deliverables:

Tokenomics (public version)

highlights

  • FAQ about the “Cats Fishing” game and the BONE$ token, including details on tokenomics, gameplay, and the project’s philosophy
  • Developed comprehensive documentation and a full test suite for the CDX Token Price tool.
  • Extensive analysis of Karma APY and implied price
  • Conducted in-depth research for the infrastructure of Network States
  • Conducted analysis on economic models for blockspace, and blobspace on Nomos, including comparative studies of Solana and Celestia.
  • Analyzed token sales structures and valuation frameworks, and applied optimization methods to propose improved solutions for token sales.

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  • vac:tke:ift:catsfishing:simulations-and-release

    • Overview:
      • FAQ about the “Cats Fishing” game and the BONE$ token, including details on tokenomics, gameplay, and the project’s philosophy
    • Completed tasks:
      • vac:tke:ift:catsfishing:simulations-and-release:support:faq

  • vac:tke:codex:insurance

    • Overview:
      • Documentation and testsuite for the CDX Token Price tool
    • Completed tasks:
      • vac:tke:codex:insurance:tool-monitoring
      • vac:tke:codex:insurance:debug-tool

  • vac:tke:status:karma-incentives

    • Overview:
      • Extensive analysis of Karma implied price
    • Completed tasks:
      • vac:tke:status:karma-incentives:karma-apy

  • vac:tke:nomos:macroeconomy

    • Overview:
      • Preliminary research about NMO as money for Network States
      • Revision and discussion of the preliminary research about blockspace on Nomos
      • Preliminary research, revision, discussion, initial specification of blobspace on Nomos
      • Review of Solana’s transaction fee model
      • Review of the economics of Celestia
      • Review of block reward mechanisms for blockchains
      • Simple implementation of the Nomos Economic Model with fixed block rewards as a constant APY
    • Completed tasks:
      • vac:tke:nomos:macroeconomy:revision-blockspace
      • vac:tke:nomos:macroeconomy:network-state-infra
      • vac:tke:nomos:macroeconomy:preliminary-block-rewards
      • vac:tke:nomos:macroeconomy:revision-da

  • vac:tke:ift:tokenomics-research-forum

    • Overview:
      • Review of token sales structures
      • Solving the token sales problem through optimization methods
      • Review of token valuation frameworks
    • Completed tasks:
      • vac:tke:ift:tokenomics-research-forum:token-sales-opt
      • vac:tke:ift:tokenomics-research-forum:token-valuation

QA

highlights

  • Added e2e tests for API compatibility and data flows between Nomos DA and Nomos consensus.
  • Added a Dockerfile to build Nomos testnet image for debugging, including support for ARM/Linux.
  • Compared Waku protocol implementations with existing RFCs to resolve discrepancies.
  • Discovered high-throughput related issues in the Waku Go bindings.
  • Added reliability tests for the Status-Go staging fleet.
  • Stabilized and reorganized existing tests in nim-libp2p.
  • Decoupled examples from unit tests for nim-libp2p.

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DST

highlights

  • Discovered more issues with Light nodes and communities in status-go
  • Discovered issues in quic and mix in nimlibp2p.
  • Great cross-colaboration between DST-P2P-AZC-waku for mix implementation.

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  • admin/misc
    • 1 CC OOO Friday 18th Apr
    • 1 CC OOO Monday 21st Apr
    • 1 CC bank holiday Wed 23rd
    • 1 CC bank holiday Monday 21st April
    • All Hands
  • vac:dst:status:2025q2-status-go-evaluation
    • Overview
      • Discovered several issues with light nodes and communities in status-go
      • Adapt code for status analysis, WIP
    • Delivered deliverables
  • vac:dst:vac:2025q2-libp2p-evaluation
  • vac:dst:ift:2025q2-vaclab
    • Overview
      • Wrote a simulation framework (LARS - Lab Automated Resource Scheduler) in Rust
        • Rewrote LARS in Python
        • Redesigned LARS with a much smaller scope
    • Delivered deliverables
  • vac:dst:waku:2025q2-waku-tooling

SC

highlights

  • Present the staking protocol at the IFT All Hands
  • Started working on bridge extension for SN
  • Upgraded staking manager contract and updated staking system on testnet

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ACZ

highlights

  • Release the Zerokit witness generation performance report
  • Released dockerized mixnet to DST team

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RFC

highlights

  • Held a RFC Workshop at the IFT offsite
  • COSS update: statuses (retired, deleted, deprecated)

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Nim

highlights

  • Tooling (nimlanbserver and vscode extension) release with multiple fixes and improvements
  • Test Runner for unittest2

Security

highlights

  • Defined a new signatory db schema for tracking
  • Evaluated and selected hardware wallets models for signing
  • Codex modular contracts threat modeling
  • Github Actions assessment
  • Deployed CC Wallet Report for Finance use
  • Integrated Pager Duty to Trading View alerts

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Nescience

Highlights

  • Designated scope and responsibilities for NSSA components (wallet, SDK and zkVM) for end-to-end programmability.
  • Investigated and designed two execution consistency mechanisms (RBC and VBC) for private invocations that update the public state.
  • Investigated selective privacy wrappers for public functions, and the consistency between selective privacy and consistency mechanisms.
  • Started defining the formal execution model for shielded and deshielded transactions.
  • Engineering wise, implemented smart contract interactions with public state and extracted smart contract primitives.
  • Result-wise, we have clear improvements in end to end programmability enhancements and SE/DE execution models. Also, our code has improved and additional features has been added and redundancies removed.

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