2024-03-11 Vac weekly

Vac 2024/03/11 §

vac:p2p: §

• nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport
  • Finish commenting and refactoring Sctp and DataChannel https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/6 (merged)
  • Try to implement CI and make it work on differents OS (it fails) https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/1
  • Move usrsctp from nim-webrtc to its own repository: https://github.com/status-im/nim-usrsctp
  • Clean nim-webrtc for the review
    • UDP: https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/8
    • Stun: https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/9
    • DTLS: https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/10
    • SCTP: https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/11
    • DataChannel: https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/12
• nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-stagger-send
  • Reviewing and discussing https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/1051. It’s related to prio queues in GossipSub.
• nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance
  • Creating questions for interview.
  • Trying to run interop tests with chronos 3 - https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/1055
  • various PR reviews
• nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance
  • proto3 repeated uint32 handling
    • Issue
    • Double check jacek’s answer: All good.
    • single topic in rpc message
      • Issue
      • Implement fix PR
    • graceful shutdown
      • Issue Investigated and requested more info

vac:tke: §

• waku:rln-membership:
  • Prepare a summary of the RLN membership model including user journey mapping (need to discuss with Waku team further) (Martin)
  • Prepare and iterate on the token economy suggestions for Waku (Martin)
  • Follow-ups from the Tokenomics call (Martin)
• status:SNT-staking
  • Continue to monitor development and give feedback for the staking contract (Martin)
  • Assist the SC team in further checks and definition of testing scenarios (Martin)
  • Follow-ups from the Status Chain IFT Strategy call (Martin)
• nomos:tdc-objectives
  • finalized the objectives & requirements part of the TDC (inc. mixnet nodes below) (Frederico)
• nomos:mixnet-incentives
  • understood the mixnet incentivization problem (Frederico)
  • read Nym reward sharing scheme for mixnets (a comparable) (Frederico)
  • analysed the differences between single vs. multi-staking approaches (Frederico)
• waku:general-incentives
  • caught up with Martin’s tokenomics proposal (Frederico)

vac:dst: §

• eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test
  • Main thing is to retrieve waku simulations Data and plot them
    • Prepare deliverable for Waku
      • Finish running several simulations with different sizes and message rates
      • Extract data
      • Prepare and clean plots
      • Discuss again with Wings what we should explain in the deliverable
  • Add tests to plotter module
  • Scrapping PR aproved by Alex: https://github.com/vacp2p/10ksim/pull/3
  • Deliverable for Waku simulations
  • Discussions with some friends about how to scale further
    • Noted that there was at least 8 layers for every packet to pass through with current setup
  • Network restructuring - OVS + Mellanox OFED + asap2 attempts
    • Added Proxmox to Vaxis and Nia (converting them)
      • Added Mellanox OFED drivers
      • Updated firwmare
      • Moved to OpenvSwitch networking
  • Deployed Kubernetes onto the new machines
• :vac:lab
  • Preparing for power upgrades
  • Added Vaxis, Nia, new 64 core nodes
  • Added new 25G switch

vac:qa: §

• waku:interop-testing
  • Use fixed versions for dependecies(@Florin)
  • Adjustments and improvements(@Florin)
  • Tried to reproduce the disconnecting light clients issue and found a similar issue(@Florin)
• waku:test-automation-sharding
  • Unit and interop tests(@Florin)
  • Discovered autosharding is hardcoded for cluster ID 1(@Florin)
  • Help js-waku devs to improve CI error handling(@Florin)
  • Raised issue for flaky CI test(@Florin)
• waku:test-automation-go-waku
  • Improve unit test coverage for peermanager(@Roman)
  • Closed triggerDiscovery issue(@Roman)
  • Improve unit test coverage for peer exchange(@Roman)
• waku:test-automation-nwaku
  • KEYSTORE_PASSWORD env variable is not effective - resolved(@Roman)
  • Trying to reproduce, fix and add new test case for metadata protocol disconnecting light clients issue(@Alex)
  • Solved some issues related to metadata connection between two nodes.(@Alex)

vac:acz: §

• rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-enhancments
  • Optimized the Nullifier Table usage to O(1) reads to detect double signaling: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2508
  • Fixed execution error when trying to fetch metadata from a freshly created tree (nwaku side): https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2516
• rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-v2
  • Wrap up tests for rln-relay-v2: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2501 (pending review)
• zerokit:vac:maintenance
  • Fix execution error when trying to fetch metadata from a freshly created tree (zerokit side): https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/231 (rln-v1) & https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/232 (rln-v2)
• secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
  • Explore a proposal on decentralized CGKA by Weidner et al. as a replacement for the MLS protocol.
• secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
  • Check the literature for related the papers CoCoA, 2, 3, and DCGKA
  • Quickly check the literature to see if there are any improvements in MLS and its problems.
  • Started to focus on DCGKA by reading Ramses’ note
• zerokit:vac:maintenance
  • researched Rust for Android for issue #47
• admin/misc
  • Fixed compilation without the postgres feature in nwaku: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2500
  • waku research paper

vac:sc:: §

• status:community-contracts-token-import
  • finished withdrawal PR
  • added tests for erc20 withdrawal https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/pull/60
  • started a POC for Vault migration to discuss about https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/issues/32
• status:staking-contracts-v1
  • Continue work on coverage
  • Fixed broken certora rule to get CI green again
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/78
  • Added invariant to ensure Vault accounting preserves ERC20 balances
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/56
  • Worked on pending Certora rule to get them pass on CI
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/58
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/57
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/81
• vac:maintainance/misc
  • Analysis of SNT impact on ethereum state
  • Research on Market Makers of other wallets
  • Logos Research call preparation and presentation
    • Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pdW3JZxqh7t_Aqd-cfIi1_JP4_8gyCk5XDBeY3nsrrE/edit?usp=sharing
    • Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NGZWkEAWMoeHMQXpIi2fStyzQYqbfSKG/view?pli=1

vac:rfc: §

• rfc-process-restructuring
  • added markdown-lint workflow to rfc-index- https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/24
  • finished moving final open waku specs from vac/rfc - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pulls
• misc
  • worked on pr for 64/WAKU2-NETWORK - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/5

vac:dr: §

• valpriv:vac:val-priv-net
  • Moved the content to notion https://www.notion.so/privacy-preserving-validator-network-e92ab3e563074a538bb0e13e5c9321e6
• valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc
  • Running holesky validators, getting over sync/deposit issue
• valpriv:vac:tor-push-paper
  • Improved the draft https://www.overleaf.com/project/6499e467346d9f56b2971caa
• gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation
  • Completed topology generation scripts for shadow simulator. PR4 now supports running simulations with variable latency, bandwidth, packet loss ratio, and also allows adjusting network/message size, fragmentation and publisher settings
  • Created a notion page on message forwarding/queuing in other libp2p implementations (go-libp2p):
  • Created a vac forum post on large message handling
• admin/misc
  • Reviewed Waku-RLN paper

vac:nes: §

• state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc
  • Researched accumulators and how to combine them to Homomorphic encryption + prepared a document about it (Moudy)
  • Researched how to make salt approach dynamic and will prepare a document about it (Moudy)
  • Began reading portions of Nexus VM and GKR-based VM (Marvin)
  • Read various papers concerning reward mechanisms for miners/observers. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (Marvin)
  • Almost completed report about SE/DE in PDAGs (Ugur)
  • Read accumulators about Zerocoin nullifier mechanism in this paper (Ugur)
• proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems
  • took a look at Nexus VM and LatticeFold (Rostyslav)
• proofsystems:vac:benchmarks
  • Worked on abstract, tables for paper (Moudy)
  • Worked on researching Nova vs. Supernova (Moudy)
  • Started Nova vs. Halo2 recursion vs. aggregation (Moudy)
  • Prepared explanation for Nova Bellman implementation (Rostyslav)
  • Conducted local benchmark testing (Rostyslav)