Vac 2024/04/22

vac:p2p:

  • nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport
    • review stun pr
    • Address comments on STUN protocol
    • Research on ICE protocol
    • Start implementing ICE protocol
  • nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance

vac:tke:

  • codex:cdx
    • reviewed Codex priority list and document outcomes (Frederico)
    • read the whitepaper (Frederico)
    • caught up with Wings’ proposal for collateral incentive model (Frederico)
    • Reviewing Codex offsite outcomes and reading the whitepaper (Martin)
  • nomos:mixnet-incentives
    • caught up with the current state with Marcin (Frederico)
    • concluded analysis of parameter to control competitiveness loss of sybil attackers
  • status:L2-deployment
    • joined discussions with Cyp (Frederico)
    • Starting work on L2 profiling and attempting to narrow down key narratives/features (Martin)
  • waku:general-incentives
    • Reviewing protocol design decisions and changes made in Athens, mapping out implications for the incentive design (Martin)
  • waku:rln-membership:
    • Reviewing the RLN decisions and changes made in Athens, mapping out implications for the RLN design (Martin)
  • status:SNT-staking
    • Research into swap feature in cooperation with the SC team (Martin)

vac:dst:

  • admin/misc
    • Meetings with Codex, prep for Codex testnet
  • eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test
    • Began implementing message reliability measurement using message ID logs
      • Message tracking code
      • Visualisation code
    • Ran several simulation attempts, ran into network issues believed related to the power event. Found several things misbehaving
    • Read Waku paper
    • Control plane improvements, Kubernetes and Ceph cleanup, replacement parts for control plane
    • Network weirdness, still sorting

vac:qa:

vac:acz:

  • rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-enhancements
    • resultify and clean up rln-relay code
  • rlnp2p:waku:rln-doc-and-outreach
  • zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.5
  • secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
    • Generation of flow diagrams for several MLS procedures
    • Research on improving the privacy in DCGKA
  • admin/misc
    • reduced availability since one CC is off (Ugur)

vac:sc::

vac:rfc:

vac:dr:

  • unstructured-p2p-improvements-survey
    • Studied/investigated different techniques/works targetted on perfromance improvements against message sizes and counts
    • Looked for funding opportunities in the Ethereum eco-system that align with our research directions
  • zk:codex:storage-proofs-open-problems-review
    • Discussed with Codex their specific needs in terms of documents, as well as received their list of papers and three problems in full detail. Discord thread and List
  • admin/misc
    • Work on notes concerning BloomFilter, MMR, and Field Merkle.
    • Began working on a document on tangibles
  • vac:dr:anon:vac:waku-anonymity-analysis

vac:nes:

  • admin/misc
    • Ugur from 15 to 23 April
    • Marvin from 15 to 17 April
  • state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc
    • Worked on defining and identifying State Separation Components (Moudy)
    • Read Ugur’s notes on Mutators 1 and 2 (Marvin)
    • Work on notes for MMR, Bloom Filters (potentially more useful for DR) (Marvin)
  • proofsystems:vac:benchmarks
    • Almost finished the draft of the Benchmarks paper (still some details to add) (Moudy)
    • conducted conducting server testing and got 6 PRs merged (Rostyslav)
  • virtual-machine-creation:vac:vm-foundations
    • Started looking at existing ZkVms in order to use them to add privacy on top (Moudy)
  • proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems