---
title: "2024-04-22 Vac weekly"
tags:
  - "vac-updates"
date: 2024-04-22
lastmod: 2024-04-22
draft: false
---

## 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`
  - use a mock rng in tests https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1085
  - debug ping interop test

### 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:
- `waku:interop-testing`
	- Merged store [tests part 1](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/31)(@Florin)
	- Update tests based on [fixes](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/32)(@Florin)
	- Issue [reopened](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/1076)(@Florin)
- `waku:test-automation-sharding`
   - Go-waku sharding tests [update](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1060)(@Roman)
   - Nim sharding [tests](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2603)(@Alex)
   - Issue found: [message won't be sent over from node1 to node2 with sharded topic subscription](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/1086) - would need to be separated from PR1060(@Roman)
- `waku:test-automation-rln`
    - RLN relay [tests](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/30)(@Roman)
	- Issue found: RLN in on-chain dynamic mode [not working](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2606)
- `waku:test-automation-nwaku`
    - Peer & Connection Management [tests](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2566)(@Alex)
    - Issues found:(@Alex)
        - [PeerInfo instance affects listed protocols](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2590)
        - [Some PeerStore metadata is not filled in](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2591)
        - [Peer Reconnection not working?](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2592)
        - [ENR shouldn't be used for pruning](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2594)
- `admin/misc`
    - Started to read the nomos docs and begin to familiarize myself with nomos(@Florin)
    - Tried to build and run nomos node and nomos specs(@Florin)
	- Conducted interview with Sandarv on Thursday(@Roman)
	- OOO one day (@Florin)

### vac:acz:
- `rlnp2p:waku:rln-relay-enhancements`
    - resultify and clean up rln-relay [code](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2607)
- `rlnp2p:waku:rln-doc-and-outreach`
    - Blog post/RFC on [Light RLN verifiers](https://github.com/vacp2p/vac.dev/pull/136)
- `zerokit:vac:zerokit-v0.5`
    - [QoL traits](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/238) to the Hasher assoc.Type 
    - [Removed tree height 32 from rln](https://github.com/vacp2p/zerokit/pull/239)
- `secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat`
    - Generation of [flow diagrams](https://github.com/vacp2p/de-mls/issues/1) 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:
- `waku:core-rfc-updates`
    - created rln-relay update pr, opened discussion for more to stable - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/32
    - merged WAKU-METADATA move to draft - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/6
- `misc`
    - found new problems with rfc-website, in contact Jhino to fix
    - started reading Codex spec marketplace - https://github.com/codex-storage/codex-research/blob/master/design/marketplace.md

### 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](https://discord.com/channels/895609329053474826/1230908611727720599) and [List](https://hackmd.io/@bkomuves/SJGyefxZR)
- `admin/misc`
  - Work on notes concerning BloomFilter, MMR, and Field Merkle.
  - Began working on a document on [tangibles](https://notes.status.im/ju6WUNg6RbSUa39h2DS0Lw)
- `vac:dr:anon:vac:waku-anonymity-analysis`
  - Read [Waku Adversarial Models](https://vac.dev/rlog/wakuv2-relay-anon/) and [Tor Push](https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/blob/main/vac/46/gossipsub-tor-push.md).
  - Started documenting [Waku Anonymity Analysis](https://www.notion.so/Anonymity-Layer-cbcbcd6067b347bb812041bce9c110ce) - WiP.

### 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](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#c268e5d7c0004b3caba0f740fcf98954) and [2](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#68f6838591304d7397a01e8cdc8aa877) (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`
    - Finished writing [LatticeFold writeup](https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257.pdf)

