2023-12-11 Vac weekly

vac:p2p: §

• nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport
  • Debugging SCTP
• nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance
  • Yamux
    • Re-write misleading parts (eg sendQueueSize)
    • Start writing explanations/comments
    • cont’ https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/987
  • added the hp tests to nim-libp2p (they run with every PR)
  • working on the nim-libp2p releases

vac:tke: §

• vac:tke::status:SNT-staking
  • Resuming conversation with SC team on staking contract and Certora training
  • starting to discuss with Pablo on Waku sharding to support decentralized scaling of Status
• vac:tke::nomos:economic-analysis
  • Incorporating changes in consensus from Carnot to Ouroboros
  • Research how delegation is used in comps of Cardano, Polkadot, and EigenLayer, compared against privacy restrictions given Nomos objectives
• vac:tke::waku:economic-analysis
  • Sharding discussion w/ Pablo on Waku
  • Continuing GitHub issue feedback on Waku incentives and reputation (bottom up approach)
  • Also start a business model analysis and implications for next steps with the protocol (top down approach)

vac:dst: §

• analysis:nomos:simulation-analysis
  • The goals and the responsibilities for the paper reaffirmed
  • Analysis correctly and switfly found parameter issues in the small-tree simulations (which follow a different control path); met with Gusto and it is fixed now
• analysis-gsub-model:vac:refactoring
  • 95% done, barring minor stylistics and input re-structuring branch(https://github.com/vacp2p/research/tree/0xFugue-waku-scaling-rewrite)
• analysis-gsub-model:status:control-messages
  • The blog post is one 20% done: the overall design of Waku explained and modelling focus defined draft(https://github.com/vacp2p/vac.dev/tree/0xFugue-waku-model)
• eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test:
  • Test new kernel parameters
  • Investigame uptimes for ram on simulations
  • Investigate packets drop
  • Solve issues with libp2p versions (https://www.notion.so/Notes-423c72646a0944d1bd7889d7dec30bb4)
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-nwaku
  • Continued implementing lightpush tests
  • Decided on way forward with direction refactor PR: Merge.
  • Lightpush SEGFAULT on publishing message over size limit; Issue

vac:acz: §

• admin/misc
  • participate @ waku hackerhouse, ethindia
• rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-enhancments
  • assist in benchmarking rln tree onchain, report: https://github.com/waku-org/research/issues/72
• secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
  • Familiarization with RFC9420 and RFC9180.
  • Confection of several comparisons to get to SoA:
    • TreeKEM vs ART.
    • HPKE vs UPKE.
  • Work on using Ethereum as Authentication Service.
  • Created a document about Farcaster’s Async Triple-Ratchet Protocol (WIP)
  • Researching about Triple-Ratchet protocol from literature.
• zerokit:vac:maintenance
  • researched issue https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/issues/115

vac:sc:: §

• vac:maintainance/misc
  • Continued researching Certora and formal verification
  • reviewed old Certora specs
  • Exploring Requirements for Smart Contracts in a Privacy-preserving Environment (for logos research call)

vac:nescience: §

• state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc
  • Researched different L2 and Rollups focusing on privacy (Az, Pol, Zc, Nmd, Ada)
  • Reviewed Az Ugur’s doc
  • Discussed on Zc for a proposal model
  • Produced a full doc on Pol architecture
  • Continue with Verkle tree document for complexity estimates for various cases.
  • Wrote brief survey on (newer PCSs) (Pending upload): 1, 2, 3
  • Continued reading VM SMT
  • Began reading towers over binary fields
  • researched how to update the public state by a private execution
  • Worked on a proposal about a public state that we can update by a private TX
  • Read about how Zcash update their public state
  • Check a paper about Zcash-like execution on Ethereum
• proofsystems:vac:benchmarks
  • Fixed comment for a PR for GWC implementation of poseidon circuit for halo2 https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/17
  • Fixed comment for a PR for SHPLONK implementation of poseidon circuit for halo2 https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/18
  • Fixed github issues on zk-explorations repo
• proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems
  • Writing BaseFold writeup (https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1705.pdf)

vac:dr: §

• valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc
  • separate measurement for aggregation from attestation, block proposal, sync committee.
• valpriv:vac:tor-push-paper
  • Shared to-be-submitted arxiv version
• gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-paper
  • Completed simulations for relatively large network (upto 6000 nodes with 50KB and upto 1000 nodes with 1MB messages), on DST test server
  • Result analysis is complete. Looking into one anomaly (increased latency seen for approximately 1% nodes in Reduced Sending method)
  • Finalizing graphs and results presentation

vac:rfc: §

• waku:waku-usage
  • updated waku-usage - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/627
• waku:waku-keystore
  • Updated waku-keystore, ready for feedback - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/631