2024-02-12 Vac weekly

Vac 2024/02/12 §

vac:p2p: §

• nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport
  • Cleaning / commenting
  • Implementing the client side of SCTP
  • Implementing the closing part of SCTP / DataChannel
• nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-stagger-send
  • Making it ready to be merged - https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/1015 (feat: message prioritization with immediate peer-published dispatch and queuing for other msgs)
• nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance
  • improvement: enhanced checkExpiring macro with custom timeout - https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/1023
  • Log checkExpiring failure
    • PR
      • Merged
  • Added suggestions to building documentation
    • PR
  • Gathered all dependencies modifications in the same PR
    • PR

vac:tke: §

• nomos:economic-analysis
  • tested a new data layout for the PoS-GPU code (to allow a large number of blocks per epoch);
  • implemented a CPU-only code that outperformed the GPU (thanks to a trick given by David and Alexander);
  • ran simulations about wealth concentration and observed leader election on Cryptarchia.
• codex:economic-analysis
  • reviewed comparables tokenomics (Filecoin);
  • reviewed the state of CDX token, inc. insurance model.
• waku:economic-analysis
  • reviewed Martin’s work on RLN pricing
  • 2x Waku RLN calls (Tokenomics, L2 for RLN) and follow-ups
• status:SNT-staking
  • continuing work on Status DeFi analysis
  • continuing work on Status staking contract

vac:dst: §

• eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test
  • Talk again with p2p team about versioning
  • Done simulations for Yamux
  • Re-do simulations without using Wireguard. Packet loss is the same if not even higher (?)
  • Plan how to structure the 10k tool framework
  • Optimized publisher and added a debug flag to get DNS resolve times.
  • Briefly ran a full 10K scale simulation, as well as other simulations at 7.5K, 8K, 5K and 0.1K
  • Scaled metrics up by sharding it then adding Thanos (via bitnami charts) Query and Thanos Query Frontend to aggregate the metrics
  • Dealing with various scaling issues as they come up
  • Added latency delay to pods, allowing us to do arbitrary amounts of latency in Waku nodes

vac:qa: §

• waku:interop-testing
  • RLN registration support and tests(@Roman + @Florin)
  • Automatically notify nwaku developes when nightly interop tests fail(@Florin)
• waku:test-automation-js-waku
  • Connection and peer management new tests and refactoring(@Florin)
• waku:test-automation-nwaku
  • Lighpush fixes(@Alex)
    • Peer Exchange tests(@Alex)
  • Update QA milestones(@Florin)

vac:acz: §

• rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-v2
  • use rln-v2 in registration and membership insertion mechanism: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2392
  • rln-v2 nonce manager: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2415
• secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
  • Keep working in the updates of the RFC.
  • Start writing the blog article about the SMP, with the use cases and the main features in mind.
  • Creation of an Overleaf project on secure channel setup with Ethereum.
  • Check two SoK papers for comparison security mechanism; paper1 paper2
  • Study the security mechanisms of dm3, Tor Messenger and Briar.
  • Start an internal report comparing different messaging protocols.
• zerokit:vac:maintenance
  • researched this issue https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/issues/21
• misc
  • Opened PRs to implement bitand & shr in circom-witness-rs: https://github.com/philsippl/circom-witness-rs/pull/14 & https://github.com/philsippl/circom-witness-rs/pull/13

vac:sc:: §

vac:rfc: §

• misc
  • Worked waku/specs repo - https://github.com/waku-org/specs/pull/1
  • Worked on vac rfc repo - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index

vac:dr: §

• valpriv:vac:val-priv-net
  • Comparing mixnet Nym to figure out new design/proposal
  • Reviewing Nym paper and design

vac:nes: §

• state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc
  • Researched the Transaction Directed Acyclic Graph (TDAG) framework to aggregate in SE and DE and produced a documentation about it (Moudy)
  • Started reading about the Privacy Directed Acyclic Graph (PDAG) framework (Moudy)
  • Made progress on the integration of Cryptographic primitives in SE and DE (Ugur)
  • Made progress on adress hiding and signature verification document (Marvin)
  • Started producing notes about Field Merkle Trees (Marvin)
  • Started creating the one-tier low-level framework for SE and DE kernel circuits by adding public and private data (Ugur)
• proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems
  • Continued looking at Reverie whitepaper and Binius implementation (Rostyslav)
• proofsystems:vac:benchmarks
  • Fixed PR#24 comments and merged Arecibo benchmark implementation(Rostyslav)