More info on Vac Milestones, including due date and progress (currently working on this, some milestones do not have the new format yet, first version planned for this week): https://www.notion.so/Vac-Roadmap-907df7eeac464143b00c6f49a20bb632

Vac week 32 August 7th

• vsu::P2P
  • vac:p2p:nim-libp2p:vac:maintenance
    • Improve gossipsub DDoS resistance https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/920
  • vac:p2p:nim-chronos:vac:maintenance
    • Remove hard-coded ports from test https://github.com/status-im/nim-chronos/pull/429
    • Investigate flaky test using REUSE_PORT
• vsu::Tokenomics
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• vsu::Distributed Systems Testing
  • vac:dst:wakurtosis:waku:techreport
    • delivered: Wakurtosis Tech Report v2 (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U3bzlbk_Z3ZxN9tPAnORfYdPRWyskMuShXbdxCj4xOM/edit?usp=sharing)
  • vac:dst:wakurtosis:vac:rlog
    • working on research log post on Waku Wakurtosis simulations
  • vac:dst:gsub-model:status:control-messages
    • delivered: the analytical model can now handle Status messages; status analysis now has a separate cli and config; handles top 5 message types (by expected bandwidth consumption)
  • vac:dst:gsub-model:vac:refactoring
    • Refactoring and bug fixes
    • introduced and tested 2 new analytical models
  • vac:dst:wakurtosis:waku:topology-analysis
    • delivered: extracted into separate module, independent of wls message
  • vac:dst:wakurtosis:nomos:ci-integration_02
    • planning
  • vac:dst:10ksim:vac:10ksim-bandwidth-test
    • planning; check usage of new codex simulator tool (https://github.com/codex-storage/cs-codex-dist-tests)
• vip::zkVM
  • vac:zkvm::vac:research-existing-proof-systems
    • 90% Nescience WIP done – to be reviewed carefully since no other follow up documents were giiven to me
    • 50% FHE review - needs to be refined and summarized
    • finished SuperNova writeup ( https://www.notion.so/SuperNova-research-document-8deab397f8fe413fa3a1ef3aa5669f37 )
    • researched starky
    • 80% Halo2 notes ( https://www.notion.so/halo2-fb8d7d0b857f43af9eb9f01c44e76fb9 )
  • vac:zkvm::vac:proof-system-benchmarks
    • More discoveries on benchmarks done on ZK-snarks and ZK-starks but all are high level
    • Viewed some circuits on Nova and Poseidon
    • Read through Halo2 code (and Poseidon code) from Axiom
• vip::RLNP2P
  • vac:acz:rlnp2p:waku:production-readiness
    • Waku rln contract registry - https://github.com/waku-org/waku-rln-contract/pull/3
    • mark duplicated messages as spam - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1867
    • use waku-org/waku-rln-contract as a submodule in nwaku - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1884
  • vac:acz:zerokit:vac:maintenance
    • Fixed atomic_operation ffi edge case error - https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/195
    • docs cleanup - https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/196
    • fixed version tags - https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/194
    • released zerokit v0.3.1 - https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/198
    • marked all functions as virtual in rln-contract for inheritors - https://github.com/vacp2p/rln-contract/commit/a092b934a6293203abbd4b9e3412db23ff59877e
    • make nwaku use zerokit v0.3.1 - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1886
    • rlnp2p implementers draft - https://hackmd.io/@rymnc/rln-impl-w-waku
  • vac:acz:zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.4
    • zerokit v0.4.0 release planning - https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/issues/197
• vc::Deep Research
  • vac:dr:valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc
    • redesigned the torpush integration in nimbus https://github.com/vacp2p/nimbus-eth2-experimental/pull/2
  • vac:dr:valpriv:vac:tor-push-relwork
    • Addressed further comments in paper, improved intro, added source level variation approach
  • vac:dr:gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-tech-report
    • cont’ work on the document