Vac 2025/05/05 §
vac:p2p: §
ift:2025q1-gossipsub-perf-improvements
- Updated GossipSub v1.4 specifications PR based on the feedback.
- Mainly required work on some safety concerns
- Started looking into performance comparison for current gossipsub proposals.
misc/admin
- Attending IFT all hands
- 1 CC 2d OOO
vac:tke: §
admin
- 5 CC days off (Sechseläuten, Labor Day, Easter holiday, Split travel)
- wrote down the monthly report of our team
- attending IFT all hands
- Summary of IFT and discussions
vac:tke:nomos:macroeconomy::preliminary-blockspace
- read articles about tx fee models and single- vs multi-dimensional gas metrics
vac:tke:nomos:macroeconomy:network-state-infra
- continuing the discussion with Alvaro over the network state design doc
- coordinating the TKE research plan for Nomos with the Nomos team and identifying key areas and questions
vac:tke:status:karma-incentives:karma-params
- preparing slides about staking to present in cooperation with the SC team
- in person sessions with the SN, SC, ACZ teams discussing core SN infrastructure and tokenomics
vac:tke:status:karma-incentives:staking-demo
- preparing the app to be used in the SN event
- coming up with something fun to deploy on SN in the SN event
vac:tke:ift:tokenomics-research-forum:token-valuation
- implemented a PCA on token valuation metrics
vac:qa: §
ift:2025q2-qa-rfc-sync-waku:nwaku
nomos:2025q2-da-testing:data-confidentiality
- Checked actual coverage
- Read specification - Nomos Blend Network, Nomos Bedrock
- ‘Nomos blend’, ‘libp2p QUICK backend’ and ‘http transport for API’ identified as test targets for TC7.1
- Progress tracking
nomos:2025q2-e2e-testing:maintenance
waku:2025q2-waku-sync-testing:unit
- Finished finger print & range split tests in PR 88 and assigned it for review
- Added second PR 97 for state transition & termination condition tests
- Covered 4 out of 7 points from coverage sheet
admin/misc
- Public holiday 1 CC days
- Parental leave 3 CC days
vac:dst: §
admin/misc
- ALL HANDS entire week
- Meet with waku team for jswaku experiments
- Lab rebuild preparation
vac:dst:status:2025q2-status-go-evaluation:store-performance
- Meet with status/waku to show issue with light nodes. They will follow up.
vac:dst:vac:2025q2-libp2p-evaluation:regression-testing
- Found stream issues in mix node
- Work with p2p team on Quic
codex (?)
- Fixed Codex nodes
- Designed a plan for filling the 500TB of Codex storage and came up up with more use cases for it
vac:dst:ift:2025q2-vaclab:concurrent-experiments
- Redesigned LARS with a much smaller scope
vac:sc: §
ift:2025q2-sc-learnup-sessions:2025-04
- learn up presentation about flash loans
admin/misc
- Offsite
- Presented staking system
- Various meetings with Tokenomics, ACZ and SN about enabling gasless transactions using RLN and Karma
status:2025q2-smart-contract-maintenance
- Implemented AccessControl in Karma
- This is needed for the RLN use case
- Fixed overflow bug
vac:acz: §
ift:2025q2-libp2p-mix-testnet:dockerize
- Coordinated with DST team to initiate mix experiments.
- Investigated LPChannel open count spikes during mix tests — still debugging.
- Added few fixes to ensure proper stream closure and metric accuracy.
ift:2025q2-libp2p-mix-testnet:update-rfc
- Updated Mix protocol RFC (link to be added).
ift:2025q2-zerokit:merkle-tree-improvement
- Continued working on Merkle tree refactoring to improve parallelism PR:
- Enhanced benchmark for parallelism testing.
- Enabled parallelism in OptimalMerkleTree by default.
- Added test case to cover parallel computation.
ift:2025q2-zerokit:parallel-computation-study
- Investigated build issue in rln-wasm.
ift:2025q2-zerokit:semaphore-parts-bench
- initial review of task (benchmarking poseidon hash impls)
admin/misc
- 4 cc is ooo whole week (allhands)
- 1 cc start to do onboardings
vac:nim: §
ift:2025q1-nim-ide-tooling
ift:2025q1-nimble
vac:rfc: §
vac:rfc:waku:2025q2-rfc-iteration
- Started RFC update for device-pairing, work in progress.
vac:rfc:nomos:2025q2-rfc-iteration:sdp
vac:rfc:nomos:2025q2-rfc-iteration:da-encoding
vac:rfc:ift:2025q2-culture-establishment-team-communication
- Spoken to Hanno about the feedback from the RFC workshop: very positive! Can keep going and make it a series potentially.
admin/misc
- Started research for Status Network Staking RFC using provided docs.
- Created a proposal for a specification writing techniques new RFC, still in draft - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/155
- Update to the roadmap with new tasks and new projects.
vac:sec: §
ift:2025q2-signatory-registry-implementation:signatory-inventory-revalidation
- started populating the new defined schema
ift:2025q2-sec-infra-maintenance:knowbe4-renewal
- Started the renewal process
ift:2025q2-awareness-program:launch-cybersecurity-training-campaign
- Lauched the training for those who got caught during the last phishing campaign (18)
vac:nes: §
admin/misc
- ooo for whole week (all-hands)
state-separation-architecture-poc:priv-impl
- Testing of private smart contract state PR.
- Implemented private smart contract state model merge request.