---
title: "2024-09-16 Vac weekly"
tags:
  - "vac-updates"
date: 2024-09-16
lastmod: 2024-09-16
draft: false
---

## Vac 2024/09/16

### vac:p2p:
- `nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport`
  - Reviewable now
    - last update comment
    - rework closing
    - syntactic sugar
  - Still some issues on windows/macos, related to nim-usrsctp
- `nimlibp2p:vac:quic`
    - [feat(transport): add experimental QUIC Transport (not production ready)](https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/725)
    - [chore: add support for i386](https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-quic/pull/52)
    - [chore: add support for Nim 2](https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-quic/pull/51)
    - Researching about [libp2p tls handshake](https://github.com/libp2p/specs/blob/master/tls/tls.md) and the best way to implement it in nim-libp2p
- `nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance`
    - Interop Caching; Fix; [PR](https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1193)
- `gossipsub:vac:gossipsub-perf-improvements`
  - Worked on [large message improvements article](https://www.overleaf.com/project/65c91200e9dbfb3cafb6edaf) on overleaf. Done with the basic writeup (Results/Discussions section left).

### vac:tke:
- `admin/misc`
  - read paper from shared by Frederico (Juan)
- `nomos:selfish-behavior`
  - started studying the selfish proposing problem in PoS (Frederico)
- `codex:cdx`
  - researched details to be solved before launching the Codex token (Frederico)
  - Read/commented on whitepaper (Juan)
  - worked on refining sims code (Juan)
- `status:L2-deployment`
  - discussed with Cats Fishing the probability of a fish biting the hook (Frederico)
  - analyze successfull campaigns and strategies of competing L2s (Martin) 
  - discussion around the reward scheme in Cats Fishing (Martin)
  - Mostly worked on catsfishing modeling namely: price dynamics, fish population as a function of players, token distribution (Juan)
  - Planned meeting with Ned (Juan)
- `status:SNT-staking`
  - catching up on SC's work on the staking contract (Martin)
- `waku:general-incentives`
  - further researching micropayments (Martin)
  - updating TDC (Martin)
  - reviewing Sergei's work (Martin)
- `codex:testnet-incentive`
  - reviewing docs (Martin)

### vac:dst:
- `admin:misc`
    - Submitted PR for revising milestones for DST and a few other tweaks in logos roadmap
    - Two CCs OOO
        - Alberto from 10th to 20th of September
        - Wings from 13th to 20th of September
    - Prepare documentation for OOO of each CC
        - Alberto prepared notes and materials on how to do IDONTWANT testing and other 
        - Wings prepared to deliver reports on Monday
- `vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:waku:midscale`
    - IDONTWANT testing/report
        - [Manifests built and tweaked](https://github.com/vacp2p/10ksim/commits/zorlin/heterogenous-idontwant) for spawning heterogenous Waku deployments
        - [Test simulation was run to test those manifests](https://www.notion.so/IDONTWANT-Testing-go-waku-nwaku-heterogenous-networks-measuring-the-impact-of-IDONTWANT-1038f96fb65c80c38dd0e834775a6650https://www.notion.so/IDONTWANT-Testing-go-waku-nwaku-heterogenous-networks-measuring-the-impact-of-IDONTWANT-1038f96fb65c80c38dd0e834775a6650)
            - Nwaku worked, go-waku has a different binary path and needs a slightly different set of commands, so the simulation didn't fully work.
    - Learning about plotting using Alberto's tools.
-  `vac:dst:deployment-and-analysis:codex:testnet`
    - Discussions with Codex team re: testnet needs
        - 50 Codex nodes carving up 500TB of storage
        - Discussion with Jesse about Codex needs
    - Preparing for Codex storage deployment
        - SeaweedFS maintenance
        - Reviewing documentation for Codex
        - Reading Discord chatter about Codex deployment and how it'll work
        - Discussion of Helm/Kubernetes charts for Codex

### vac:qa:
- `waku:interop-testing-02`
	- store sync [merged the PR](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/69)(@Florin)
	- fixed the lightpush errors caused by recent nwaku [changes](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/71)(@Florin)
	- fixes sharding tests related to recent nwaku [changes](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/72)(@Florin)
    - Clone the main repo: [Waku Interop Tests](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests)(@Sam)
    - Set up the project by installing all dependencies as specified in the repository documentation(@Sam)
    - Run a few existing tests to familiarize yourself with the codebase(@Sam)
    - Framework understanding and execution of existing test cases locally(@Sam)
    - understanding waku existing APIs and flows(@Sam)
- `waku:test-automation-status-go-cli-2`
	- added reruns for flaky tests and other adjustments for [status-cli tests](https://github.com/status-im/status-cli-tests/pull/10)(@Florin)
- `nomos:test-automation-data-availability`
    - [Test run1 for Nomos/Da - in progress](https://www.notion.so/DA-Test-Plan-Run1-084243a3256c47ae9eee1cfd46fd469b)(@Roman)
    - chore: Da dispersal [unit tests update](https://github.com/logos-co/nomos-node/pull/720)(@Roman)
- `vac:test-automation-nim-libp2p`
    - Talk to Florin on Testplans: Untestable cases + Speed(@Alex)
    - Update Gossipsub - [Peer discovery](https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1168)(@Alex)
    - Gossipsub - Control Messages [Draft PR](https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1191)(@Alex)
    - Begin Nim Quickstart Guide(@Alex)

### vac:acz:
- `secure-channels:waku:mls-poc`
    - Review [RFC](https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/blob/eth-secpm-splitted/vac/raw/eth-demls.md) with KSR's comments in mind. Linter and sembr errors, and on-chain components ammended.
    - Preparation of forum post about [RFC](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/268).
    - Code review for Waku. [Notion document](https://www.notion.so/Code-review-KZG-Commitment-1e4eb54ffda747519ae8a330a90981a7).
    - [Discussions](https://forum.vac.dev/t/plausible-deniability-in-distributed-storage-networks/321/2) in Vac's forum on plausible deniability.
- `zerokit:vac:maintenance`
    - Merged [PR](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/266) with stateless rln-wasm
    - Merged [CI bug](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/267) regarding building rln-cli
    - Fixed CI actions version [bug](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/268) - ready for review now
    - Created [benchmarks](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/269) for different compression type of arkzkey. Add all result into [release issue](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/issues/263#issuecomment-2348730752)
- `anon:vac:gossipsub-anonymity`
    - Update on the Mix protocol  [PR](https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/97). Firstly, PoW has been moved to the appendix and other minor comments in the PR have been addressed. 
    - Merged [PR](https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/97) the first PR of Mixnet RFC  
    - Drafted the [blog post](https://www.notion.so/Introducing-the-Mix-Protocol-Enhancing-Privacy-Across-libp2p-Networks-1018f96fb65c80f48753e838fa1112a2) on custom Mix Protocol for the VAC forum.
    - Review the [mix repo](https://github.com/vacp2p/mix) and related issue. 
	- Crate a draft milestone for mixnet and discuss with Akshaya
	- Read [mixnet blog post](https://www.notion.so/Introducing-the-Mix-Protocol-Enhancing-Privacy-Across-libp2p-Networks-1018f96fb65c80f48753e838fa1112a2) from Akshaya.
- `admin/misc` 
    - 1 cc take rest on Wednesday(11th September) and Thursday(12th September) because of illness.

### vac:sc::
- `status:staking-contracts-v1`
    - implemented a more scalable staking contract with a PoC streaming rewards instead of having epochs. (still without multiplier points) https://github.com/gravityblast/staking-rewards-streamer
    - Investigated issue related to failing rule that `pendingRewards != sumOfEpochRewards`
        - Turns out this was a bug in the staking contract
            - https://github.com/logos-co/staking/issues/110
        - Fixed with https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/112
    - Meeting: doing a walk-through of staking protocol
    - Meeting with team to discuss alternative staking algorithm to calculate rewards and multiplier points
        - https://github.com/gravityblast/staking-rewards-streamer/commits/main/
        - Looks promising, will try to integrate into existing protocol and test
    - Meet with Status Network ppl to discuss NFT/XP requirements

### vac:nim:
- `tooling:vac:lsp`
  - fixes ci 
   https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/commit/883935707f762ce135c27d40b4ef2baf9e85fd86
  - Implements restart nimsuggest extension 
   https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/commit/f526163e315d4d6e3cf6fd99cf7b19049d0a0100
  - Adds extension capabilities to status. Fixes a raise condition in checkFile 
  https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/commit/caf576ceb08820c817cdca7abb73694624e1083f
  - Improves the way ns processes are spawn. Dont need to use threads anymore. 
  https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/commit/737eea06b97abbdfb7361626ef189c06fcb5ed6e
- `tooling:vac:editor`
   - Troubleshoot user issues 
   - Retrieves extension capabilities from status instead of fetching it 
   https://github.com/nim-lang/vscode-nim/pull/100
   - Adds a restart nimsuggest button per nimsuggest instance
    https://github.com/nim-lang/vscode-nim/pull/99
   - Retrieves the lsp extension capabilities from the server when available (server >= 1.5.2)
    https://github.com/nim-lang/vscode-nim/pull/98
- `tooling:vac:compiler`
	- bumps nimble to 0.16.1 #24102 https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/24102
- `tooling:vac:nimble`
	- bump version 0.16.1 #1265 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1265 
    - release 0.16.1

### vac:rfc:
- `codex:specs-init`
    - updated Codex specs readme - https://github.com/codex-storage/codex-spec/pull/6
    - started reviewing codex marketplace rfc for another round of feedback
- `admin/misc`
    - Finished workflow linting, applied feedback from felicio - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/90

### vac:dr:
- `admin/misc` 
    - Finished [Fiat-Shamir blog](https://github.com/vacp2p/vac.dev/pull/147) draft; requested reviews.
- `zk:codex:zk-consulting`
    - Began investigating Plonk wrappers for final step.

### vac:nes:
- `state-separation:vac:state-separation-architecture-01`
    - Prepared a list of answers for engineers regarding Sandbox implementation. [Moudy + Team]	
    - Finished drafting different case scenarios for different types of executions to be used for testing. [Moudy]	
    - Researching existing node implementation projects. [Moudy]	
    - Began working on missing component for membership proof and non-membership proofs for nullifiers and committed UTXO trees. [Marvin][DR]
    - Refine the VM & zkVM collab docs. [Ugur][ACZ]
    - Discuss a third way to execute SE\DE with Marvin. [Ugur][ACZ] + [Marvin][DR] 
- `zkvm:vac:vm-foundations`
    - Finished reading node specifications + prepared questions [Rostyslav + Oleksandr]
    - Started writing a follow-up blogpost with Zkvms testing results and conclusion. [Mo

