2024-07-15 Vac weekly

Vac 2024/07/15 §

vac:p2p: §

Last week:

• nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance
  • chore: enable Nim 2.0.x and fix compilation issues
  • fix: support ipv6 dual stack
  • chore: update os images on ci
  • gcc 14 support
• nimlibp2p:vac:quic
  • Quic Transport

vac:tke: §

• admin:
  • ETHcc (Juan)
  • 5 CC days off
• nomos:cryptarchia-wealth-concentration-known-stake
  • fixed a bug in the wealth concentration code (Frederico)
  • ran again all simulations and analyze all results related to the wealth concentration (Frederico)
  • started developing the code to analyse the selfish behavior when choosing the fork rule (Frederico)
• waku:general-incentives
  • analysed the current RLN incentivization proposal (Frederico)
• status:L2-deployment
  • analysed and expanded the SNT token utility (Frederico)
  • continued rewriting the GMX/veSNT model with the newest constraints (Frederico)
  • discussed the current demands of the cats fishing project (Frederico & Juan)
  • Finalised analysis on CoWSwap (Juan)
• codex:testnet-incentive
  • discussed the testnet incentives with the Codex team (Frederico & Juan)

vac:dst: §

• vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:10k
  • Install and configure VictoriaMetrics
  • 3x 10k simulations
    • Still running into OOM issues
    • Got to 9000 nodes at one point accounted for
    • Still needs tuning
• vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:midscale
  • Analyse behaviour and bandwidth usage of discv5 when establishing/stabilising mesh
  • Discussed discv5 logging with Gabriel
  • Measure time-to-stable-mesh with different numbers of nodes.
  • Found an issue with relay connections.
  • Lots of simulations and deployments to get VictoriaMetrics implemented and stable

vac:qa: §

• waku:interop-testing-02
  • investigated interop failures(@Florin)
  • update interop tests to use cluster_id != 0(@Florin)
  • Test/peer exchange - PR 51 - merged(@Roman)
  • fix: cluster_id 0 for peer store related tests - PR 56 - in progress(@Roman)
• waku:test-automation-status-go-cli
  • implement community reuse and merge PR(@Florin)
• vac:test-automation-nim-libp2p
  • created test plan for YAMUX(@Florin)
  • Got familiar with existing tests(@Roman)
  • Generated actual coverage report for Yamux(@Roman)
  • Test 2.0.6 compilation fixes(@Alex)
  • Finish Cleanup CI PR(@Alex)
• waku:test-automation-rln
  • Meeting with Tanya to solve reproducibility issues(@Alex)
  • Ran simulations to debug Tanya’s found bugs(@Alex)
    • Found behaviour differs between computers.
    • Metrics bug
  • Ran simulations to try to isolate Tanya’s bug’s variables(@Alex)
• admin/misc
  • review challenges and interview QA Candidates(@Florin)
  • start creating slides for QA presentation(@Florin)
  • OOO 1 CC Day

vac:acz: §

• admin/misc
  • 3 CCs at ethcc
  • 1 CC ooo full week

vac:sc:: §

• admin/misc
  • 5 CC days ooo
• codex::contracts-formal-verification
  • integrated changes from the Certora team
  • fixed foundry template PRs
• status:staking-contracts-v1
  • cont’ reseach on MP estimation

vac:nim: §

• tooling:vac:editor
  • Implement notification panel in the extension: https://github.com/nim-lang/vscode-nim/pull/72
  • Prepare release (to be sync up with Nims) https://github.com/nim-lang/vscode-nim/pull/73
• tooling:vac:nimble
  • Fix an issue with the CI and win https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1

vac:rfc: §

• admin/misc
  • @ ethcc

vac:dr: §

• admin/misc
  • Finish rlog for Bloom filters and Cuckoo filters
• vac:dr:anon:vac:gossipsub-anonymity
  • Continued work on Anonymized GossipSub Protocol (AGP) specification. Specifically, details of the custom mixnet protocol [WiP], and encode next hop and delays into beta.
  • Looked into the Sphinx implementation in Go.
  • Looked into the overall implementation and algorithm design choices.
• gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation
  • Looked into testground documentation and example test plans in more detail. Currently, issues with extended delays and occasional failure reports the test ground daemon.
• gsub-scaling:vac:unstructured-p2p-improvements-survey
  • Provide feedback on gossipsub rlog
• zk:codex:zk-consulting
• Examined proof of replication, and discussion whether this is relevant for software level.

vac:nes: §

• state-separation:vac:state-separation-architecture-01
  • Worked on execution types and completed private and shielded executions. [Moudy]
  • Gave a structure to the blogpost. [Moudy]
  • Selected some components to focus on. [Moudy]
  • Reviewed and added some specific topics to the document of Cryptographic Infrastructure and Nullification Strategy as part of our Q2 Milestones. [Moudy]
  • Provided feedback on Cryptographic Infrastructure and Nullifications document. [Marvin][DR]
• zkvm:vac:vm-foundations
  • Work on the lits of ZkVMs:
    • Went through MPC materials [Rostyslav]
    • Reviewed scuttlebutt repo [Rostyslav]
    • Read about Power of Tau ceremony paper [Rostyslav]
    • Reviewed powersoftau repo [Rostyslav]
    • Reviewed all of the zkVM’s in the list [Oleksandr]
    • Provide Rostyslav with partial homomorphic resources. [Marvin][DR]
    • Add supplemental resources for primitives to Primitives Document. [Marvin][DR]