---
title: "2024-03-18 Vac weekly"
tags:
  - "vac-updates"
date: 2024-03-18
lastmod: 2024-03-18
draft: false
---

## Vac 2024/03/18

### vac:p2p:
- `nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance`
  - preparing interview
  - reviewing PRs
  - [Graceful Shutdown (1007)](https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/issues/1007) Fix
     - [PR](https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/pull/1065)
  - [Single topic for RPC Message (1052)](https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/issues/1052)
     - [PR](https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1061) Update PR with suggestions

### vac:tke:
- `admin/misc`
  - reviewed CVs (Frederico)
  - Interviews with candidates (Martin)
- `nomos:mixnet-incentives`
  - developed a pricing model for packets routed through the mixnet (Frederico)
  - modified Nym reward allocation mechanism to Nomos constraints (Frederico)
- `codex:cdx`
  - designed the CDX insurance model (Frederico)
- `status:L2-deployment`
  - kicked off a list of L2 comparables, focused on business models and ecosystem incentivization (Frederico)
  - Kicking off work on incentives for L2 (Martin)
- `waku:rln-membership:`
  - Proposing new RLN membership structures to the team - other than price per membership (Martin)
  - Follow-ups to Franck's response to our material we presented last week (Martin)
- `status:SNT-staking` 
  - Continue to monitor development and give feedback for the staking contract (Martin)
  - Assist the SC team in further checks and definition of testing scenarios (Martin)

### vac:dst:
- `eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test`
    - Finish plotter module tests and prepare PR (ongoing)
    - Improve framework scraping interval (https://github.com/vacp2p/10ksim/issues/8)
    - Try kubernetes API portforwading again
    - Simulations:
        - Updated waku to 0.26
        - Changed some parameters (flags, memory available, etc)
        - Results with 3k matches perfectly with 1K in terms of bandwidth.
            - Bootstrap now doens't crash. Caused by OOM previously.
- `eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test`
    - Various simulations, gathering additional data
    - Calls with @Alberto, helping fix scraping
    - Attempted to get hardware offloading working on existing ConnectX-4 LX adapters
        - Conclusion was it's not possible (NVIDIA deprecated the offloading for CX4LX) but we're now in a good place to try offloading on the new CX6s once they arrive
        - CX6s are at the post office waiting for pickup -> installation
- `admin/misc`
    - Met with Codex team re: helping with Codex testnet

### vac:qa:
- `waku:test-automation-sharding`
	- Finished js-waku sharding tests and prepared [PR for review](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1883)(@Florin)
	- Issues found:(@Florin)
		- Allow subscribeToContentTopic to use other [cluster IDs](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/1900)
		- ApplicationInfo to PubsubTopic doesn't take clusterId into [consideration](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/1902)
- `waku:interop-testing`
	- Created [scripts](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/23) to help reproduce bugs [2512](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2512) and [1034](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/1034)(@Florin)
	- Improve logs for [manual debug](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/21)(@Florin)
	- Found go-waku [regression/issue](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/1054)(@Florin)
    - Waku node health/reliability [Issue 2369 - updated](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2369) and [Issue 165 - updated](https://github.com/waku-org/docs.waku.org/issues/165)(@Roman)
- `waku:test-automation-go-waku`
    - Improve unit test coverage for [peermanager](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1035)(@Roman)
	- Issues found:(@Roman)
		- Metadata might not always be [available](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/1055)
		- Describe topic event transition between libp2p and [peer manager level](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/1053)
    - Improve unit test coverage for [peer exchange](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1046)(@Roman)
    - Improve unit test coverage for [Discv5](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1051)(@Roman)
- `waku:test-automation-nwaku`
    - [Resultify fetchPeerExchangePeers](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2486)(@Alex)
    - [Simplify imports](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2467)(@Alex)
	- [Fix and add test cases](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2533) for Metadata protocol disconnecting light clients [2491](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2491)(@Alex)
    - Merge Peer Exchange [Tests PR](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2464)(@Alex)
    - Merge [Discv5 PR](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2487)(@Alex)

### vac:acz:
- `rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-v2` 
    - rln-relay v2 integrated into nwaku: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2345
- `secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat`
    - Prepare a Notion page containing a specification for the DCGKA algorithm.
    - Think and propose solutions to some the DCGKA limitations.
    - https://www.notion.so/DCGKA-Specification-5a0b67a3ce674ae3a5220b560015cd2c#8f9f17014e5a479788da2544d64a993e
    - Study Ramses' notes in [Notion](https://www.notion.so/DCGKA-Specification-5a0b67a3ce674ae3a5220b560015cd2c?pvs=4)
    - Read about Jitsi in this [paper](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1118.pdf)
    - Read about difficulties on decentralization of MLS section 8.5 of [paper](https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1189.pdf)
- `misc`
    - gnark-rln implementation: https://github.com/vacp2p/gnark-rln
    - added multiple curves to rust stealth address repo: https://github.com/vacp2p/erc-5564-rs 
    - assist with deploying waku-rln-contract to waku-simulator

### vac:sc::
- `status:staking-contracts-v1`
    - Merged coverage improvements
    - Finished ironing out all pending certora rules
        - https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/81
        - https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/82
        - https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/85
        - https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/86
        - https://github.com/logos-co/staking/pull/57
- - `status:community-contracts-token-import`
    - Reviewed/discussed migration options for community vaults
        - https://github.com/status-im/communities-contracts/issues/32#issuecomment-1997000297
- `vac:maintainance/misc`
    - Research on ENS Usernames to change release delay

### vac:rfc:
- `rfc-process-restructuring`
    - Markdown lint does not lint files, proposed fix- https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/25
    - Open the proposal to COSS changes - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/4
- `misc`
    - create website repo - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-website

### vac:dr:
- `valpriv:vac:val-priv-net`
  - Finalized and share the related proposal()
  https://www.notion.so/privacy-preserving-validator-network-e92ab3e563074a538bb0e13e5c9321e6 
- `valpriv:vac:tor-push-poc`
  - holesky validators registration and execution
- `valpriv:vac:tor-push-paper`
   -  https://www.overleaf.com/project/6499e467346d9f56b2971caa
- `gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-paper`
  - Implemented IMReceiving message for use with IDontWant message to improve GossipSub performance against v. large message. [Experimental PR](https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1070) is available for review/discussion. 
      - This is just a prototype experiment showing 40% bandwidth reduction and more than 10% latency reduction for 1MB messages.
      - Requires feedback, as it needs new message inclusion
- `gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation`
  - Conducted results for different IDontWant/IMReceiving message use cases. The results are available in [VAC forum post](https://forum.vac.dev/t/idontwant-message-impact/283).
- `zk:codex:storage-proofs-open-problems-review`
    - Began examining [current version of Codex system's description](https://github.com/codex-storage/codex-storage-proofs-circuit)

### vac:nes:
- `state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc`
  - Drafted document about privacy improvements for state separation (Moudy)
  - Continue work on monitoring (Marvin)
  - Defined new milstones (Moudy)
  - Completed report about SE/DE in PDAGs see in [Notion](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#4a32272ca966467d8cd46833bedaafd0) (Ugur)
- `proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems`
  - checked out this [Hypernova implementation](https://github.com/microsoft/Nova/pull/175) and continued reading [LatticeFold](https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257.pdf) (Rostyslav)
  - Defined new milstones (Moudy)
- `proofsystems:vac:benchmarks`
  - Overlooked at the paper and continued researching Nova vs. Supernova/ Nova vs. Halo2 recursion vs. aggregation (Moudy)
  - Defined new milstones (Moudy)
  - Worked on enhancing Nova-Scotia performance (Rostyslav)
- `virtual-machine-creation:vac:vm-foundations`
  - Defined new milestones (Moudy)

