Vac 2024/06/03
vac:p2p:
nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport- DTLS protocol https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/10
- Adds comments & improve PR presentation
- Solve some problems appearing with the merge of Stun protocol
- Trying to solve the CI with prerequisites installation in nim-mbedtls
- Chore PR (renaming)
- DTLS protocol https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/10
nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance- review and finalize various chore PRs
vac:tke:
admin- reviewed and updated TKE milestones (Frederico)
codex:cdx- reviewed research reports about competitors (Frederico)
- structureed and started developing Codex agent-based model (Frederico)
nomos:cryptarchia-wealth-concentration-known-stake- produced better comparisons between the fork-choice rules (Frederico)
- finalized the single Jupyter notebook that replicates all computations (Frederico)
- continued the restructure of the previous work under a newly defined strategy (Frederico)
waku:general-incentives- caught up with the current state (Frederico)
waku:rln-membership- Reviewed existing research into RLN and compatibility with the new design (Martin)
status:SNT-staking- Reviewed Juan’s work on swaps (Martin)
status:L2-deployment- Drafted first docs on the economic model and identifying missing pieces, iterating on this with Cyp (Martin
vac:dst:
vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:midscale- Deploy additional Ruby control plane nodes for better stability.
- Partially deployed, being finished today
- Investigate Waku regression
- PR: New Publisher merged. Tested with 3K Nodes.
- Fixed data retrieval issues with Pushprox that affected simulations.
- Changed Waku parameters to better test waku v0.27
- Deploy additional Ruby control plane nodes for better stability.
vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:vac:libp2p-version-testing- Async meetings with libp2p team to inform testing
- PR: Added deployment files in 10k repo for nim-libp2p.
- Changed DST-node branch to use nimbus build system.
- Deployed 1K nimlibp2p nodes and gathered data
vac:dst:tooling:vac:visualiser-tool- New weekly Monday meeting with Waku team about reliability
- Waku is interested in using the visualiser tool in their test fleet. Got an SSH tunnel for Elastic access.
vac:qa:
waku:interop-testing- Merged store v3 - added 70 tests(@Florin)
- Spent 1 day investigating potential reliability issues that turned out to be misconfigs(@Florin)
waku:test-automation-status-go-cli- Call with Pablo regarding requirements and deliverables(@Florin)
- Started creating a test framework around the status go cli tool(@Florin)
waku:test-automation-rln- Fix: occasional failure to check published message for RLN tests(@Roman)
nomos:test-automation-cryptarchia- Chore: cryptarchia unit tests update in progress(@Roman)
- Example how coverage changes in the report: Before -> After (@Roman)
vac:acz:
rlnp2p:waku:rlnv2-e2e- chore(tests): add kats test for merkle proof
- chore: integrate uups proxy
- chore: scaffold deployments
- merged tests PR after addressing reviews
stealth-address-kit:vac:maintenancevalidator-privacy:nimbus:productionize-tor-push- reviewed codebase and paper
secure-channels:waku:mls-design- Study on login and authentication options for MLS design in terms of decentralization, adding a conclusion to doc
- Examine login mechanism of a self-hosted messaging app based on matrix named element see in github
- Finished the (first version) of the presentation for the EthCC Brussels.
secure-channels:waku:mls-poc- tried to implement poc using openmls and centralised DS -> not finished, found that using decentralised approach is better
- started to investigate how to use waku as DS
consulting:codex:proxy-re-encryption- attended kick-off call, meeting notes with action points for next steps
admin/misc- added codex proxy re-encryption to roadmap pr and merged
vac:sc::
vac:maintenance/misc- initial Certora setup for codex contracts https://github.com/codex-storage/codex-contracts-eth/pull/113
- WIP: ENS usernames to latest solidity
- WIP: ENS usernames migrate to forge
- ENS Usernames to new ENS registry
- Proxies and Upgradeable contracts research
- Presented proxy patterns in EIP discussions call
vac:nim:
-tooling:vac:compiler
- nimcheck rework previous solution: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/23625
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tooling:vac:nimble - change it to dump (https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1221)
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tooling:vac:lsp - change it to use dump (https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/200)
- unify nimble dump calls and extract type https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/201
- speed up dump by caching calls (https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/202)
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tooling:vac:editor - use nimble dump when available to retrieve the nimDir for run and debug (https://github.com/nim-lang/vscode-nim/pull/64) and https://github.com/nim-lang/vscode-nim/pull/65
- fixes compilation issue with latest version 2.0 https://github.com/nim-lang/vscode-nim/compare/main…jmgomez:fixcompilationissuever20?expand=1
vac:rfc:
codex:specs-init- Updated marketplace rfc, made changes based on feedback - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/36
nomos:specs-init- Worked on data availibility rfc, created pr still in draft - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/
vac:dr:
gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation- Experimented with different optimizations for minimizing the impact of IWant messages. Additionally, we can skip sending IWant if we have received multiple IDontWants for the same msgID; implemented this in PR that shows reasonable improvement.
vac:admin- Logos Research call presentation
- Met with Aaryamann concerning blog formatting.
zk:codex:zk-consulting- Began document on proposed proof algorithm draft, and began notes on Groth16 as a wrapper.
- Began reading Circle STARK, ECFFT1 and ECFFT2 to focus on variations of FFT optimizations.
vac:dr:anon:vac:gossipsub-anonymity- Reading Nym Network white paper. This addresses several open questions we had: strong adversarial model, reputation system that ensures reliability and mitigates Sybil attacks, uses verifiable random functions for node selection, maintains list of active nodes, prevent long-term correlation attacks by rotating active nodes every hour, rewards for nodes.
- Began investigating an open source libp2p-nym implementation in Rust
vac:nes:
virtual-machine-creation:vac:vm-foundations- work on list of ZkVMs
- Continued entering data on Nexus, Jolt, o1VM.
- Found new benchmarks for SP1, Jolt and Valida
- Ola and snarkOS. [DR]
- Compiled information for Valida, Ola, snarkOS, RISC0 and Valida into the zkVM table. [DR]
- compiled information for P1, Powdr, Miden, zkOS, Aleo(snarkVM), and zkMIPS in zkVM table [ACZ]
- work on list of ZkVMs
proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems- continue working on a writeup about Greco zk proofs