---
title: "2023-08-21 Vac weekly"
tags:
  - "vac-updates"
date: 2023-08-21
lastmod: 2023-08-21
draft: false
---


Vac Milestones: https://www.notion.so/Vac-Roadmap-907df7eeac464143b00c6f49a20bb632
Vac Github Repos: https://www.notion.so/Vac-Repositories-75f7feb3861048f897f0fe95ead08b06

# **Vac week 34** August 21th
## *vsu::P2P*
  - `vac:p2p:nim-libp2p:vac:maintenance`
    - Test-plans for the perf protocol (99%: need to find why the executable doesn't work) https://github.com/libp2p/test-plans/pull/262
    - WebRTC: Merge all protocols (60%: slowed down by some complications and bad planning with Mbed-TLS) https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/3
    - WebRTC: DataChannel (25%)
## *vsu::Tokenomics*
  - admin/misc:
    - (3 CC days off)
  - `vac:tke::codex:economic-analysis`
    - Call w/ Codex on token incentives, business analysis of Filecoin
  - `vac:tke::status:SNT-staking`
    - Bug fixes for tests for the contracts
  - `vac:tke::nomos:economic-analysis`
    - Narrowed focus to: 1) quantifying bribery attacks, 2) assessing how to min risks and max privacy of delegated staking
  - `vac:tke::waku:economic-analysis`
    - Caught up w/ Waku team on RLN, adopting a proactive effort to pitch them solutions
## *vsu::Distributed Systems Testing (DST)*
  - `vac:dst:wakurtosis:vac:rlog`
    - Pushed second draft and figures (https://github.com/vacp2p/vac.dev/tree/DST-Wakurtosis)
  - `vac:dst:shadow:vac:basic-shadow-simulation`
    - Run 10K simulation of basic gossipsub node
  - `vac:dst:gsub-model:status:control-messages`
    - Got access to status superset
  - `vac:dst:analysis:nomos:nomos-simulation-analysis`
    - Basic CLI done, json to csv, can handle 10k nodes
  - `vac:dst:wakurtosis:waku:topology-analysis`
    - Collection + analysis: now supports all waku protocols, along with relay
    - Cannot get gossip-sub peerage from waku or prometheus (working on getting info from gossipsub layer)
  - `vac:dst:wakurtosis:waku:techreport_02`
    - Merged 4 pending PRs; master now supports regular graphs
  - `vac:dst:eng:vac:bundle-simulation-data`
    - Run 1 and 10 rate simulations. 100 still being run
 - `vac:dst:10ksim:vac:10ksim-bandwidth-test`
    - Working on split the structure of codex tool; Working on diagrams also
## *vsu:Smart Contracts (SC)*
  - `vac:sc::status:community-contracts-ERC721`
    - delivered (will need maintenance and adding features as requested in the future)
  - `vac:sc::status:community-contracts-ERC20`
    - started working on ERC20 contracts
  - `vac:sc::vac:secureum-upskilling`
    - Secureum: Finished Epoch 0, Slot 4 and 5
    - Deep dive on First Depositor/Inflation attacks
    - Learned about Minimal Proxy Contract pattern
    - More Uniswap V2 protocol reading 
  - `vac:sc::vac:maintainance/misc`
    - Worked on moving community dapp contracts to new foundry-template
## *vsu:Applied Cryptogarphy & ZK (ACZ)*
  - `vac:acz:rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-enhancments`
    - rpc handler for waku rln relay - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1852
    - fixed ganache's change in method to manage subprocesses, fixed timeouts related to it - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1913
    - should error out on rln-relay mount failure - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1904
    - fixed invalid start index being used in rln-relay - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1915
    - constrain the values that can be used as idCommitments in the rln-contract - https://github.com/vacp2p/rln-contract/pull/26
    - assist with waku-simulator testing
    - remove registration capabilities from nwaku, it should be done out of band - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/1916
    - add `deployedBlockNumber` to the rln-contract for ease of fetching events from the client - https://github.com/vacp2p/rln-contract/pull/27
  - `vac:acz:zerokit:vac:maintenance`
    - exposed `seq_atomic_operation` ffi api to allow users to make use of the current index without making multiple ffi calls - https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/206 
    - use pmtree instead of vacp2p_pmtree now that changes have been upstreamed - https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/203
    - Prepared a PR to fix a stopgap introduces by PR 201 https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/207 
    - PR review https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/202, https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/206
  - `vac:acz:zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.4`
    - substitute id_commitments for rate_commitments and update tests in rln-v2 - https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/205
    - rln-v2 working branch - https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/204
    - misc research while ooo:
    - stealth commitment scheme inspired by erc-5564 - https://github.com/rymnc/erc-5564-bn254, associated circuit - https://github.com/rymnc/circom-rln-erc5564 (very heavy on the constraints)
## *vip::zkVM*
- `vac:zkvm::vac:research-existing-proof-systems`
    - Updated the Nova questions document (https://www.notion.so/zkVM-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451 -> Projects -> Nova_Research_Answers.pdf)
    - Researched ProtoStar and Nova aleternatives
- `vac:zkvm::vac:proof-system-benchmarks`
    - Drafted the Nova Benchamarks document (https://www.notion.so/zkVM-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451 -> Projects -> Benchmarks.pdf)
    - Researched hash functions 
    - Researched benchmarks
## *vc::Deep Research*
  - `vac:dr:valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc`
    - Reimplemented torpush without any gossip sharing
    - Added discovering peers for torpush in every epoch/10 minutes
    - torswitch directly pushes messages to separately identified peers
  - `vac:dr:valpriv:vac:tor-push-relwork`
    - added quantified measures related to privacy in the paper section
  - `vac:dr:gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-tech-report`
    - Explored different unstructured p2p application architectuture
    - Studied literature on better bandwidth utilization in unstructured p2p networks.
  - `vac:dr:gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation`
    - Worked on GossibSup simulation in shadow simulator. Tried understanding different libp2p functions
    - Created short awk scripts for analyzing results.
  - `vac:dr:consensus:nomos:carnot-bribery-article`
    - Continue work on the article on  bribery attacks, PoS and Carnot
    - Completed presentation about the bribery attacks and Carnot
  - `vac:dr:consensus:nomos:carnot-paper`
    - Discussed  Carnot tests and results with Nomos team. Some adjustment to the parameters needed to be made to accurate results.