Vac 2024/07/22

vac:p2p:

vac:tke:

  • admin
    • Working towards ETHcc report (Juan)
  • nomos:cryptarchia-wealth-concentration-known-stake
    • understood the cryptoeconomic perspective of PoW for Executors (Frederico)
    • continued developing the code to analyse the selfish behavior when choosing the fork rule (Frederico)
  • status:L2-deployment
    • reviewed the work about CoW swap (Frederico)
    • understood how fishs are modeled in the Cats Fishing project (Frederico)
    • Finalised CoWSwap comparisson work and simulations (Juan)
    • Wrote a presentation for the CowSwap comparison (Juan)
    • Discussed legal aspects of sucha model (Juan)
    • Worked on CatsFishing (Juan)
    • catch up on current state (Martin)
  • codex:testnet-incentive
    • reviewed discussion with Codex team and mapped out next steps (Frederico)
  • waku:general-incentives
    • catch up on current state (Martin)
  • codex:cdx
    • Minor work on simulations (J

vac:dst:

  • vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:midscale
  • vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:10k
    • Continue metrics scaling + VictoriaMetrics fixes
    • 10K report - multiple simulations to prepare for it
      • 10k being reliably reached, metrics still choking
  • vac:dst:tooling:vac:visualiser-tool
    • Meeting (Alberto x Wings) to discuss Visualiser split and show each other the tools created
      • “DST Visualiser” (nodejs/react) to be used for live analysis
      • “Debug Visualiser” (python3) to be for more extensive post-simulation analysis/“playback”
    • Testing visualiser on a 10K swarm

vac:qa:

  • waku:interop-testing-02
  • vac:test-automation-nim-libp2p
    • started creating test plan for Gossipsub(@Florin)
  • waku:test-automation-status-go-cli
    • discussions with waku and status team regarding future work(@Florin)
  • nomos:test-automation-cryptarchia
  • vac:test-automation-nim-libp2p
    • Update CI Cleanup PR with suggestions(@Alex)
  • waku:test-automation-rln
  • admin/misc

vac:acz:

  • rlnp2p:waku:rlnv2-e2e
  • secure-channels:waku:mls-poc
    • Preparing the inclusion of the on-chain component in the RFC: reading the repos and figuring out the architecture.
    • Research on finality times on different L2s for onchain component.
    • Finished work with CLI integration and merged PR
    • Merged small fix regarding getting own message PR
    • Created a demo of using cli video link
    • Started fixing the functionality regarding the smart contract and local cache - adding multiple keys during registration, remove unused functionality open PR
  • zerokit:vac:maintenance
    • started a discussion about improving zkey processing time by switching to preprocessing (more details in discord thread)
  • admin/misc
    • Submission of proposal for delivering a talk in Devcon Bangkok. Same presentation as for EthCC Brussels but including latest advances.
    • CCs getting tickets for devcon
    • Update the ethcc notes (for full doc in notion)

vac:sc::

vac:nim:

vac:rfc:

vac:dr:

  • vac/admin
  • gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation
    • Continued worked on testground simulator. Specifically, developed understanding about writing test plans, and run/play with different example test plans (from other libp2p implementations).
  • vac:dr:anon:vac:gossipsub-anonymity
    • Continued working on Anonymized GossipSub Protocol (AGP) specification. Specifically, completed the implementation details of the custom mixnet protocol, extend Sphinx to support address + destination of combined size , recommend appropriate cryptographic algorithms, made some changes to the approach followed in Sphinx Go implementation, to improve performance.
    • Begin to implement Sphinx library in Go.
  • zk:codex:zk-consulting

vac:nes:

  • state-separation:vac:state-separation-architecture-01
    • Finished working on execution types covering the 3 different types (Private, Shielded, Deshielded) [Moudy]
    • Worked on different components for the state separation Blogpost. [Moudy]
    • Reviewed key management and lists of primitives from Ugur and Marvin. [Moudy]
    • Create a doc for cryptographic primitives inside and ouside of the kernel circuits in notion. [Ugur + Moudy][ACZ]
    • Expand the missing components for State-Separation file in notion. [Ugur + Moudy][ACZ]
  • zkvm:vac:vm-foundations
    • Work on the lits of ZkVMs:
      • Continued going through partial homomorphic encryption schemes’ materials [Rostyslav]
      • Reviewed elgamal-encryption, rsa-algorithm repo [Rostyslav]
      • Investingated workaround to use Rust code for Valida [Oleksandr]
      • Work on cryptographic primitives list needed to be added for zkVMs. [Marvin][DR]