Vac 2024/05/13

vac:p2p:

vac:tke:

  • codex:cdx
    • reviewed and extended Codex’ Value Capture Mechanisms (Frederico)
    • reviewed and discussed the new Slot Reservation proposal with Codex team (Frederico)
    • Reviewed, commented, and discussed the tokenomics part of the whitepaper (Juan)
    • Read on slot reservation proposals (Juan)
    • Provided feedback on codex’s market validation respose document (Juan)
    • Catching up on the discussion around marketplace mechanisms (Martin)
  • status:L2-Deployment
    • Further work on L2 economic model, focusing on fundametal questions and constraints (Martin)
    • Started working towards a swap aggregator model (Juan)
  • waku:general-incentives
    • Reviewing protocols mentioned by Franck (Martin)
    • Identifying key actionable items (Martin)
  • status:SNT-staking
    • Sync with SC team on the swap feature, chats with potential partners (Martin)
    • Identifying implications of L2 economic model on SNT staking and its current design (Mart

vac:dst:

  • admin:misc
    • Meetings re: milestones, ad hoc discussions
  • vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:midscale
    • Blocked due to Kubernetes issues in lab
    • Issues resolved now, deployments resume on Tuesday evening (14th/15th of May)
  • vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:10k
  • vac:dst:tooling:vac:visualiser-tool:
    • PR to be merged regarding code structure and first waku message tracking functionality: PR
  • vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:codex:testnet
    • Debugging issues with distributed storage system used to support Codex nodes
    • Setup access for Codex team
  • vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:nomos:mixnet
    • Continue to follow up with Nomos team

vac:qa:

vac:acz:

vac:sc::

  • status:swap-aggregator
    • prepared presentation on metamask swap
    • 1 inch aggregator research
    • user privacy on Paraswap integration
    • Finished preparing CoW protocol preso
    • Met with TKE and StatusChain team to discuss plans
      • Unfortunately things are still blurry and being brainstormed
  • vac:maintainance/misc
    • ENS usernames release delay update
    • Fine-tuned job description for Solidity engineer
    • Created onboarding guide for new hires

vac:nim:

  • tooling:nimble
    • Working on passing all tests when SAT on.

vac:rfc:

vac:dr:

  • gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation
    • Looked in to previous staggered message sending approach. Require manualy resetting nim/nimble to match the branch dates. The performance evaluation results are available here
    • As no gains are seen, looking for other possible improvements (delayed elimination of peers from queues on receiving idontwants), adapting stagger delays to peer speeds/scores. still a WIP
  • vac:admin
    • Work on blog drafts for Verkle Trees, KZG, and BloomFilters.
  • zk:codex:zk-consulting
    • Provided feedback on bkomuves’ notes on Codex tracking proofs.
    • Began report on Groth16 as final compression layer, and current state of pairing-based recursion proof systems.
  • vac:dr:anon:vac:gossipsub-anonymity
    • Continued working on Anonymity Layer - WiP.
    • Read Tor Push and Dandelion++ solutions
      • Still can’t figure out the actual advantage of using onion encryption.
      • In the pub-sub model, adding delays and/or relaying through an anonymity/mix overlay network should offer the desired level of protection.
      • However, such an overlay network will be similar to Dandellion++ only.
      • Still trying to figure out how to overcome the shortcomings in Dandellion++.

vac:nes:

  • state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc-01
    • Synced on monitoring (Marvin)
  • state-separation:vac:state-separation-architecture-01
    • Worked extensively on the architecuture of state separation and made some improvements (Ugur + Moudy)
    • Finished the 5-page doc for the framework of the prototype with some charts related to the type of executions (Ugur)
    • Enriched the prototype with the details for the first draft (Moudy + Ugur)
  • proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems
    • Continued reading about Greco zk proofs (Rostyslav)
    • Finished checking out Ligetron (Rostyslav)
    • Wrote a small summary paragraph on LatticeFold (Rostyslav)
  • proofsystems:vac:benchmarks
    • Started the writings and wrapped up some parts to reflect main differences between the major analyzed proof systems (especially regarding proofs agg vs recursion) (Moudy)
  • virtual-machine-creation:vac:vm-foundations
    • Prepared requirements to look into existing ZkVms and what are the important keys we need to assess (Moudy)