2024-12-23 Vac weekly

Vac 2024/12/23 §

vac:p2p: §

• ift:gossipsub-perf-improvements
  • Created GossipSub v1.4 specs PR
  • Delivered talk in IFT research call on GossipSub scaling.
  • Worked on 2nd large message handling article (IWANT optimization + IMReceiving)
• ift:nimlibp2p-maintenance
  • PR - feat: idontwant on publish
  • PR - chore(ci): add arm64 for macOS #1212 - rebase and test

vac:tke: §

• admin
  • created and reviewed all TKE Commitments and already known Tasks for Q1/2025
• vac:tke:codex:v1-supply-tokenomics:token-dynamics
  • wrote unit tests
• vac:tke:nomos:intro-base-layer-economy:tx-fees
  • continued writing the report with comparisons
• vac:tke:nomos:intro-base-layer-economy:da-fee
  • continued working on the first proposal for the NomosDA market
• vac:tke:ift:catsfishing-mvp:whitepaper
  • addressed points raised by SC and legal teams
  • reviewed the CF whitepaper
• vac:tke:status:aura-incentives:xp-program
  • revisited superfluid products and trying to draft our incentive system using it
  • mapped dependencies of payment streaming in our architecture
  • Revisited this work, started pushing docs out
  • updates and discussion with the SN team after 2 weeks
• vac:tke:ift:tokenomics-research-forum:ve3
  • added one more important observation to the ve(3,3) blogpost
  • finalized it for publication
  • reviewed the ve(3,3) blogpost
• vac:tke:ift:tokenomics-research-forum:points
  • went back to the points blog post
• vac:tke:ift:based:adhoc-support
  • met with Vojtech to discuss latest state of things and help plan a points system on their end.
• misc
  • planned a semi-secret project for all-hands in Split
  • looked into AI agents platforms and libraries (eliza, virtuals, etc.)

vac:qa: §

• waku:2024q4-interop-testing:maintenace
  • Add test for rendezvousPeerFoundTotal_total Metric
• waku:2024q4-status-go-functional-testing:migrate-to-status-backend
  • Private groups messages tests
  • Review PRs related to the test framework
• nomos:2024q4-da-testing:outline-distributed-test-framework
  • Finished at nomos-e2e-tests
• nomos:2024q4-da-testing:data-integrity-tests
  • Two node cluster start automation PR 1 - in progress - prerequisite changes to adopt actuall Nomos/testnet images
• admin/misc
  • 1 CC ooo for 4 days

vac:dst: §

• admin/misc
  • 1 CC OOO whole week
  • Meeting with Codex about tasks and cross-work
• waku:waku-evaluation:regression-testing
  • Blocking Issue (GH Link):
    • Tested issue again lowering available CPU, and also incrementing
    • Problem still happens in both scenarios
    • WIP Notion report
  • Regression tests for v0.34
    • Notion report
    • Public Link
    • Added message time distribution plots
• waku:waku-scaling:waku-shard-reliability-vs-scale
  • Finished: Tracking Issue
  • Code: PR Link
  • Notion Report
  • Public Link

vac:sc: §

• vac:sc:status:staking-protocol-v1:documentation
  • https://github.com/vacp2p/staking-reward-streamer/pull/67
    • Added reward index to MathSpec
    • MathSpec ready to review
  • https://github.com/vacp2p/staking-reward-streamer/pull/103
    • Created simple guide for Multiplier Points
• sc:staking-protocol-v1:testnet-deployment
  • Fixed a bug that would cause MP to be calculated incorrectly
    • https://github.com/vacp2p/staking-reward-streamer/pull/100
  • Deployed a version of the staking system
• vac:sc:status:xp-token-v1:token-implementation
  • merged work on real-time XP calculations
    • https://github.com/vacp2p/staking-reward-streamer/pull/95
  • merged work on XP token to use real-time calculations from the staking contract
    • https://github.com/vacp2p/staking-reward-streamer/pull/99

vac:acz: §

• ift:de-mls-testnet:testnet-api
  • Have a full working process for joining to the group, send a messages between user and remove user from the group PR
  • Prepare demo with all functionality link
• ift:zerokit-v0-6:circom-witness-rs
  • worked on issue regarding zerokit can’t work with new version of rust becuse ark-circom depend on old wasmer version. Now decided to use rust v1.82.0 and after removing circom check this issue one more time
  • Implementing the first feature of the issue has been accomplished. The corresponding PR is currently under review.
• ift:think-tank:zk-think-tank
  • Review the zk think tank doc
  • Review Merkle tree blog.
  • Begin making updates to zk thinktank
  • Address comments to Merkle tree blog.
• ift:de-mls-testnet:de-mls-rfc
  • Review the stage docs and comparison doc
• ift:think-tank:zk-consulting-codex-1
  • Finished on notes on techniques for foreign emulation.
  • Examine the Sigambus repo.
• ift:think-tank:zk-consulting-codex-2
  • Begin compiling a list of polynomial commitment schemes to investigate
• ift:libp2p-mix-poc:gossipsub-over-waku
  • Finished error handling and code quality improvements (PR #13)
    • Implemented Result types for error management.
    • Integrated chronicles for structured logging.
• admin/misc
  • 1 cc was ooo for 4 days (sick leave)
  • Continue probability review of Nomos notes; ACZ notes.

vac:nim: §

• ift:nim_ide_tooling_2024q4
  • Can list and run nimble tasks from the extension #121 https://github.com/nim-lang/vscode-nim/pull/121
  • Improves nimble tasks UX #122 https://github.com/nim-lang/vscode-nim/pull/122
  • refactor: extracts nimlspstatuspanel #123 https://github.com/nim-lang/vscode-nim/pull/123
  • Adds excNimbleTask extension capability #270 https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/270
  • updates setup-nimble-action in lsp #269 https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/269
  • #fixes #24536 building nimble 0.16.4 fails when running build_all.sh #24537 https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/24537
  • Adds skipParentCfg back. Bump nimble to a commit where it doesnt rely in the parent config https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/24545
• ift:nimble_2024q4
  • adds zip on win CI https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/commit/cd90fec37f03d334f22fe084f1a1d6f55afe327b
  • Moves search paths to nimble.nim.cfg (#1317) https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1317
  • Review community PRs
  • setup-nimble-action docs and complete: https://github.com/nim-lang/setup-nimble-action/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed

vac:rfc: §

• ift:rfc:waku:updates-of-mature-waku-rfcs-2024q4
  • Continue work on waku-updates 12/WAKU2-FILTER, 13/WAKU2-STORE, and 14/WAKU2-MESSAGE. Work in Progress, making final changes.
• ift:rfc:vac:rfc-culture-establishment-2024q4
  • Worked on AA forum post, still not complete. Should be ready for feedback next week.
  • Had a small workshop around the points of improvement for the RFC Culture. We created an action plan for now as well as part of Q1 of 2025.
• ift:rfc:nomos:data-availability-raw-rfc-2024q4:da-documentation-research
  • Did some of the touches on the RFC - spoke to Daniel from Nomos, he actually gave a green light for the spec to go into rfc-index.
• ift:rfc:vac:rfc-index-maintenance-2024q4
  • Received an alarm about broken links in the rfc-index by Franck. However did a webcrawler script and found there are some indeed broken links, although not for the RFCs but for references and mentions (not too many but still). Will complete a PR next week that will fix all of those based on input from relevant people.

vac:nes: §

• vac:state-separation-architecture-poc:testnet-support
  • Adjusted metrics for testnet.
  • Reviewed scenarios implementations.
  • Looked into missing components from sandboxed testnet to full.
• vac:state-separation-architecture-poc:testnet-node
  • Sandbox testnet scenarios metrics collector lib.
  • Sandbox testnet scenarios implementation.
  • Sandbox testnet scenarios data collecting.
  • End-to-end testing.