2023-10-02 Vac weekly

vac:p2p: §

• nim-chronos:vac:maintenance
  • Opened alternative fix for closure completion issue
• nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-stagger-send
  • Continued simulations
• nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport
  • Continued vertical integration of protocols
• nim-libp2p:vac:maintenance
  • Merged gossipsub IWANT fix

vac:tke: §

• vac:tke::codex:economic-analysis
  • Codex pushed meeting back again, reviewing this week to get in sync on timeline and steps for final delivery
• vac:tke::status:SNT-staking
  • John has reviewed goverance process itself, governance proposal template, staking gov proposal, finalize details with him this week
  • Complete anonymous user matching proposal draft
  • Still some differences between design and implementation in SC, Martin working on these items in order to hand off - Rewards should not be claim order dependent - Restaking mechanism, same vault vs create new vault - Rewards can be claimed retroactively vs GMX style model of needing to claim in real-time
• vac:tke::nomos:economic-analysis
  • Frederico in regular communication with Alvaro, continuing on Private Addressing research
• vac:tke::waku:economic-analysis
  • Martin follow up with Sergei on collaboration ideas and feedback on WAKU so far

vac:dst: §

• wakurtosis:vac:retrospective-rlog
  • Delivered for first round of reviews (https://github.com/vacp2p/vac.dev/pull/131)
• wakurtosis:vac:rlog
  • Taken care of review comments, still issues with results (injection loss)
• eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test
  • Changed dst-node code to fit a K8s environment
  • Put dst-node in dockerhub
  • Run as many nodes as possible on two machines with plain Kubernetes
• software-testing:waku:test-plans
  • Finished the Relay test plan: https://www.notion.so/Relay-c91b6df8d96a4527b5d2d599bf8dd54e
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-js-waku
  • Added new tests for static sharding feature (phase 1) to cover filter, lighPush, store and relay protocol. Also changed existing methods and tests to support multiple pubSubTopics. Awaiting review: https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1624
  • Started refactoring and adding new tests for store protocol. Draft PR: https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1627
  • Helped investigating a change in nwaku that caused issues in the js-waku lightPush tests
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-nwaku
  • Merge coverage https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2067
  • Update open Filter PRs
  • Implement waku filter tests (Unsubscribe, payloads, security and privacy)
    • Unsubscribe PR
    • Unsubscribe All, Payloads, and Privacy and Security PR
    • Node Privacy and Security PR
  • Implement returning error on “unsubscribing from non-subscribed server” (Change inside Unsubscribe PR)
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-go-waku
  • Ran Go’s coverage report to see about unit tests
  • Built and played with Waku v2 Filter example, docker image locally
  • Wrote Dockerfile and test container image build workflow
  • go-waku’s test docker registry @quay.io is in preparation with jakubgs

vac:acz: §

• zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.4
  • unblocked rln-v2 proof verification, pending rln-wasm bug fix
• secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
  • Completed a first version of the WiP including an extension to group chats.
  • Completed a first approach to using Noise nomenclature for X3DH and the DH ratchet in the double ratchet.
  • Studied how to approach Signal’s PQXDH in terms of Noise.

vac:sc:: §

• status:community-contracts-deployer
  • Code clean up https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/pull/17
  • Custom token events https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/pull/18
• status:community-curation-contracts
  • Finish moving to foundry template https://github.com/status-im/community-dapp/pull/69
  • Add foundry deployment script https://github.com/status-im/community-dapp/pull/70
  • Introduce evaluation limit and use minime token https://github.com/status-im/community-dapp/pull/72
  • Smaller additional PRs
    • Remove safeMath/save gas https://github.com/status-im/community-dapp/pull/71
    • Use OZs Ownable https://github.com/status-im/community-dapp/pull/73
    • Production parameters https://github.com/status-im/community-dapp/pull/74
• status:SNT-optimism-bridge
  • Move repository to foundry template
  • Add modern minime as dependency https://github.com/logos-co/optimism-bridge-snt/pull/9
• status:community-contracts-ERC20
  • Added Owners and Master tokens to Community ERC20 contract
• status:SNT-optimism-bridge
  • report for certora
  • implement ERC2612
  • improve code and gas cost
  • coverage to almost 100%
  • improve abstraction of MiniMeBase
  • work on SNTPlaceHolder issues
    • add claimTokens
    • remove safemath

vac:zkvm: §

• proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems
  • Written a document for Proof Creation and Verification (Goal 3 for Nescience) - WIP 70%
  • Started a first draft for research article for Nescience
  • Started readings on bulding secure zkVMs
  • Researched on Poseidon paper (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/458.pdf) and is implementations
  • Finished Jolt writeup (https://www.notion.so/zkVM-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#43de765557544ec59efa038a2d39c98b)
• proofsystems:vac:benchmarks
  • added ducumentation to plonky2 code (https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/15)
  • Work on Halo2-benchmark

vac:dr: §

• valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc
  • Reducing attestation miss rate, separating peerpool/conn table for torswitch
• valpriv:vac:tor-push-paper
  • paper updated
• gsub-scaling:vac:unstructured-p2p-improvements-survey
  • Incorporated suggested changes GossipSub improvements research log post (https://github.com/vacp2p/vac.dev/pull/130). Currently doing proofreads, and readjusting citations.
• gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation
  • Pull request created for GossipSub shadow simulation.
• consensus:nomos:carnot-vote-2-3rds-vote-aggregation
  • Writing the psuedocode (https://github.com/logos-co/nomos-specs/blob/Carnot-vote-aggregation/carnot/carnot-vote-aggregation.py).
  • Adding discussion to the high level protocol document(https://www.notion.so/High-Level-Algorithm-6535ac0363df4629ad2c40dff4bc62cd)
• :nomos:review
  • Reviewing https://www.notion.so/Data-Availability-Specification-c3961b681eba4ccdab2be9181e4207b4#3df2088e8a9b4c048310e51ff8e577a8
• zk:codex:storage-proofs-open-problems-review
  • sync with Codex on the issues

vac:rfc: §

• status:port-status-specs
  • clean up 65/status-accounts spec, draft of test vectors which were omitted
  • Continue and finish porting a version of the PAYLOADS spec https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/612