2024-01-22 Vac weekly

Vac 2024/01/22 §

vac:p2p: §

• nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport
  • Find/investigate a bug with usrsctp not sending the correct messages.
• nimlibp2p:vac:quic
  • Investigate what we need to implement: mainly wrap DTLS 1.3
• nimlibp2p:vac:gossipsub-stagger-send
  • make forward (relay) messages non priority - https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/100
• nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance:
  • “Timeout increase” approach to fix some of the flaky timeout tests

vac:tke: §

• vac:tke::codex:economic-analysis
  • add insurer role to the litepaper (@Matty)
  • make sure litepaper is up-to-date (address comments, etc.) (@Matty)
• vac:tke::status:SNT-staking
  • get general plan from John on Tuesday (@Martin)
  • review litepaper and TDC (@Matty)
• vac:tke::nomos:economic-analysis
  • Clean up Nomos Notion and update TDC (@Frederico)
  • Finish agent based simulations on wealth concentration impacted by leader selection (@Frederico)
  • Read darkpaper when Nomos team has finished incorporating team comments and can share (expect next week)
• vac:tke::waku:economic-analysis
  • prepare for meeting with Matt Nemmer (@Martin)
  • research around sustainability model following Franck post (@Martin)
  • work on L2 discussion with Cyprien (@Martin)
  • review litepaper and TDC (@Matty)

vac:dst: §

• eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test:
  • Investigate 3 machine results
  • Finish go-libp2p node and get simulation results
    • https://www.notion.so/Nim-Rust-Go-comparison-9dc4e4c3c0914773971608e8af911943

vac:qa: §

• vac:qa:software-testing:waku:test-automation-js-waku
  • Fixed tests related to content topic limit update PR1 and PR2(@Florin)
• vac:qa:software-testing:waku:test-plans
  • Discv5(@Florin)
  • Peer exchange(@Florin)
• vac:qa:software-testing:waku:interop-testing
  • Nightly go and nim interop workflows reporting to WAKU/DEV/test-reports discord channel(@Roman)
  • Adjusted tests and marked known failures with xfail so the nightly reports look better(@Florin)
• vac:qa:software-testing:waku:test-automation-nwaku
  • Improved RLN tests: Node and Group Manager(@Alex)
• vac:qa:software-testing:waku:test-automation-go-waku
  • Improved RLN unit tests coverage(@Roman)

vac:acz: §

• rlnp2p:waku:rln-doc-and-outreach
  • Present rln-v2 and v3 at logos research call
• zerokit:vac:maintenance
  • Attempted integrating circom-witness-rs into zerokit for faster witness generation, realized that a few operations, bitand and shr are not implemented.
• misc
  • rln-v3 proposal doc - https://hackmd.io/@rymnc/rln-v3-proposal (linked in notion as well - https://www.notion.so/RLNP2P-e2865a91b50d4928b2e8d14916adb586)
• secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
  • Inclusion of SIWE in the RFC (deprecation of the NIZK approach).
  • Preparation of internal notes on Quarantined TreeKEM.
  • Check the subprotocol and algorithms of RFC for the implementable of the RFC in notion
• zerokit:vac:maintenance
  • worked on a workaround for https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/224

vac:sc:: §

• status:snt-staking-contract-maintenance
  • Analyzed application properties for formal verification together with Tokenomics team
    • Notes https://notes.status.im/rA5eYiLlSYWDDLnaXRfPdg?both
  • Merged pending bugfix a test PRs
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/41
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/42
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/43
    • https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/44
• status:community-curation-contracts
  • Deployed community curation dapp contracts on Optimism Sepolia
    • PR with deployment config
      • https://github.com/status-im/community-dapp/pull/107

vac:nescience: §

• vac:nes:state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc
  • Finished researching Privacy-focused models and Update notion with two different documentations: Ola and Namada
  • Reviewed and researched the Private State Update proposal and Update notion with an extended document for requirements
  • Made a decision for milestones and how to achieve them (Add link), more info will be in the milestone document
  • Finish up loose ends for Mimblewimble, Verkle tree notes (additions/deletions)
  • Begin research on signature verification (Shielded)
  • Added a report about The Functions’ Order of Calling and Execution(WIP) in notion
  • Explored the complexity side of the shielded-deshielded execution arhitecture
• vac:nes:proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems
  • Continued writing CycleFold writeup (https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1192.pdf)
• vac:nes:proofsystems:vac:benchmarks
  • Experimented with Arecibo
  • Fixed comments on refactoring PR
  • Made a decision for milestones, more info will be in the milestone document

vac:dr: §

• gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-paper
  • Worked on staggered message sending issue (Used the newly implemented message queuing support).
    • Testing and finalizing the code. Will finish by tommorrow.
• zk:codex:storage-proofs-open-problems-review
  • Begin going through list of needs in terms of current design and design document

vac:rfc: §

• misc
  • Worked on stealth commitments RFC, communicated with Aaryamann - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/658
  • Worked on Waku2 message update - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/655
  • revisited website checked changes, looks ready
• waku:waku-keystore
  • Was approved by Aaryamann - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/631