2024-11-18 Vac weekly

Vac 2024/11/18 §

note: many Vac CC were at DevCon SEA and co-located side events

vac:p2p: §

• ift:gossipsub-perf-improvements
  • Presented our work on gossipsub large message handling at Libp2p day

vac:tke: §

• attended DevCon and side events in Bangkok
• 1 CC day off
• vac:tke:ift:catsfishing-mvp::monetary-policy
  • worked towards whitepaper
• vac:tke:status:aura-incentives:xp-program
  • Kept working on AURA, code + theory
• vac:tke:ift:tokenomics-research-forum:XP
  • worked on research for blog on XP
• vac:tke:ift:based:adhoc-support
  • Worked on Vojtech’s request. Met him on Tuesday.

vac:dst: §

• vac:dst:vac:libp2p-evaluation:regression-testing (November):
  • Rerun simulations for version 1.7.0
  • Run simulations for version 1.7.1
  • Not finished, analysis pending. Compiled and run succesfully so far.
• admin/misc:
  • 1 CC on Devcon SEA
  • 1 CC on Sick leave
  • Meeting with Nomos to talk about future Mixnet work
  • Meeting with Waku to talk about
    • FURPS
    • Dashboard and public reports
    • Status-d and so on

vac:qa: §

• waku:status-go-functional-testing-2024q4:migrate-to-status-backend
  • Created a new PR and continued Sam’s work on this by:
    • Removed duplicate and redundand code
    • Improved assertion
    • Adjusted PR to allign more with the existing status-go framework
    • Added linting and code format
    • Restructured existing framework to be more in lign with the best practices
    • Made new tests independent of docker-compose file
  • Talked with Anton, he reviewed the PR and next steps are:
    • We need to containarize everything so it can run in the status Jenkins CI. To do this, the existing framework needs to be changed to handle a dynamic number of nodes And also allow node handling from the test container. Anton is currently working at this task
    • I need to adjust my PR to be in line with this approach
    • Anton and Igor asked to split the big PR into 2-3 smaller PRs
• vac:qa:ift:projects-qa-strategy-2024q4:status
  • Started investigation and wrote some notes
• vac:qa:nomos:da-testing-2024q4:dispersal-storage-tests
  • Test run1 for Nomos/Da - in progress
• waku:interop-testing-2024q4:known-issues
  • Adding tests based on discussions with devs & opened bugs & articles
  • Create PR 87 & run tests on both nwaku&go-waku locally & adding variations to make go-waku works
  • Discuss go-waku issues with devs, sharing logs and trying some local scenarios to reproduce the issues resulting in finding 2 issues
• admin/misc
  • Devcon Bangkok

vac:acz: §

• admin/misc
  • 4 cc participated Devcon7
  • Had meetings with Waku research and SC team
  • Had ACZ internal meeting, for notes
• ift:libp2p-mix-poc:sim-anon-ping
  • PR #6: Mix protocol integration
    • Developed generic libp2p protocol wrapper (WiP)
    • Implemented POC for mix functionality testing
    • Refactored connection handler and fixed mix node selection logic
  • PR #7: Mix Transport implementation progress
    • Updated switch creation and MixnetTransportAdapter to use full address
• ift:de-mls-testnet:de-mls-rfc
  • Create a doc for points that needs to be clarifed and next steps of de-MLS RFC

vac:sc: §

• vac:sc:status:staking-protocol-v1:merging-existing-solutions
  • Merged refactor(StakeManager): extract interfaces and rename variables to merge functionalty with StakingRewardStreamer
    • Defines a common interface with StakingRewardStreamer
    • Implements MathSpec as abstract contracts: StakeMath, MultiplierPointMath
    • Extracted EpochMath logic to its own abstract contract
• vac:sc:status:staking-protocol-v1:formal-verification
  • Fixed timing out MaxMP rule
  • Created CVL specs based on the MathSpec.md
• vac:sc:status:staking-protocol-v1:documentation
  • MathSpec:
    • Added A_MAX, amount max balance, useful for writing fuzz tests
    • Created specification for StakeManager
      • Epoch System
      • Potential MP Prediction

vac:nim: §

• vac:nim:ift:nim_ide_tooling_2024q4
  • implements extension/runTask #261 https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/261
  • (Needs to be completed, a package fails) Bumps nimble v0.16.3 #24437 https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/24437
• vac:nim:ift:nimble_2024q4
  • Complete Nim Binaries #1283 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1283
  • sat and checksums are now git submodules #1285 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1285
  • bump version to 0.16.3 #1286 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1286
  • nimble release v0.16.3

vac:rfc: §

• admin/misc
  • Attended DevCon
  • Attended EthGlobal Hackaton, project included Waku but not complete. Work still in progress, hopefully next week can post to Vac forum - https://ethglobal.com/showcase/poc-intent-machine-wbn6n
• ift:rfc:vac:rfc-culture-establishment-2024q4
  • Reading through several RFCs published by the IETF to learn more about what good RFCs look like: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5652 , https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3826 , https://firebird-butler.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rfc/2/COSS.html and https://www.ietf.org/process/rfcs/ .
• ift:rfc:nomos:data-availability-raw-rfc-2024q4:da-documentation-research
  • Following up on the updates/demo of data availability from the Nomos offsite.

vac:nes: §

• vac:state-separation-architecture-poc:execution-types
  • Finalized DE kernel circuits.
  • Made a unified document of execution types and circuits.
• vac:state-separation-architecture-poc:utxo-specs
  • Finished working on UTXO components.
  • Made a unified document of UTXO specifications for NSSA.
• vac:state-separation-architecture-poc:vm
  • Prepared a PR for additions for zkVM.
  • Testing.
  • Private executions implementation.
  • Shielded and deshielded executions implementation.