Vac 2024/04/15

vac:p2p:

vac:tke:

  • admin/misc
    • attended the All-hands presentations and discussions (Frederico, Martin)
    • traveled back from Athens (Frederico, Martin)
  • nomos:mixnet-incentives
    • presented the current state of the mixnet incentives to the Nomos team (Frederico)
  • codex:cdx
    • discussed the missing parts of the Tokenomics model in the Codex offsite (Frederico)
    • discussed Codex L2 use case with Cyprian (Frederico)
    • discussed Codex tokenomics with Finance team (Frederico)
    • Review open questions and provide input ahead of the Codex offsite (Martin)
  • status:SNT-staking
    • discussed staking and aggregation with the SC team (Frederico, Martin)
  • waku:general-incentives
    • Analyzing the new ideas discovered in Athens - RLN ID and utilization of the payment mechanism for the RLN purchase (Martin)
  • waku:rln-membership:
    • follow-ups based on the discussion in Athens (Martin)
  • status:L2-deployment
    • Meeting and brainstorming with Cyprian in Athens (Martin, Frederico)

vac:dst:

  • admin/misc
    • Various contributors @ Athens for Logos Offsite
    • Collaborations with Codex
      • node designs (incl. pricing)
      • collateral scaling mechanisms (“dynamic collateral”)
    • Talked with Nomos about testing mixnet and graph visualisation
    • Discussed Nomos testing and DST service needs
    • Met with Yiannis from Probe Lab
      • Exploring areas to collab; focus was on partnerships, what areas DST can help with, “low/zero cost” knowledge exchange
    • Team: Discussed future directions, next few weeks to months worth of work
  • eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test
    • Investiage the usage of kustomize for deployment
    • Update scrapper test and utils merged https://github.com/vacp2p/10ksim/pull/20 Pod log downloader to be merged now https://github.com/vacp2p/10ksim/pull/21
    • Multiple attempted runs towards 10K
      • First successful 10K run 2024-04-15 10:30am in Athens at 10,847 nodes
    • Improvements:
      • enable NUMA support in VMs for better scale
      • all nodes now boot automatically as lab comes up
      • Implemented critical improvements to large scale simulations per Calico team.
    • Meetings with Waku team
      • Talked about next deliverables and checked their paper about Waku
      • Discussed Nwaku vs go-waku CPU usage and scalability, needs; potential waku network sharding strategy (dynamic sharding); current Waku testing results, future needs
      • Discussed need for Waku tracing - need to be able to output a simple Received message ID: messageID message from Waku to stdout.Met with Ivan (Waku)
  • :vac:lab
    • Scaling improvements, added 3 hosts, improved power distribution, migrated all hosts to OVS, Codex preparation work, NVMe install + debug.

vac:qa:

  • waku:interop-testing
    • Light push tests merged(@Florin)
    • Store draft pr(@Florin)
    • Issues found:
      • contentTopic naming not consistent in the store response where is’s content_topic(@Florin)
      • node doesn’t store messages if relay is disabled(@Florin)
      • failed to negotiate protocol: protocols not supported: [/vac/waku/store/2.0.0-beta4] when the peer node has store disabled(@Florin)
  • waku:test-automation-sharding
  • waku:maintenance-nwaku
  • waku:test-automation-rln
    • RLN relay tests draft PR(@Roman)
  • admin/misc
    • Offsite(@Alex)

vac:acz:

Last week:

  • zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.5
  • rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-enhancements
  • secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
  • admin/misc
    • Discussions at Logos All hands offsite with various projects on how the ACZ team plugs into their research & engineering
    • First Vac ACZ offsite, meeting notes. Planning for Secure channels with Ethereum done.
    • most CCs ooo after travel from All hands offsit

vac:sc::

vac:rfc:

vac:dr:

  • unstructured-p2p-improvements-survey
    • Looked into the gossip issue regarding large number of small messages in farcaster network
    • Looked into different gossipsub specifications/discussions etc.
  • gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation
    • Worked on message forwarding from priority/non-priority queues for possible performance improvements and message staggering. Still a work in progress. Expected to complete in this weak.

vac:nes:

  • admin/misc
    • Moudy + Marvin all week @ All hands offsite
    • Ugur 2 days off + 1 day @ACZ offsite
  • state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc
    • Created a draft about the possible usages of Mutator sets in our nullifier systems in notion (Ugur)
  • proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems