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# 2025-04 Vac monthly

Jan 06, 2026, 11 min read

- #vac-monthly

## Vac Monthly Report 2025/04 §

### P2P §

#### highlights §

- Release v1.10.0
- CI completes in ~25m, previously taking +50min
- Stagger Send article submitted on arxiv.
- Memory transport

#### report §

- `ift:2025q1-gossipsub-perf-improvements`
  - Overview:
    - Finalized GossipSub v1.4 spec updates and articles
    - Integrated Nimbus into Ethshadow with syscall fixes in progress
  - Delivered Deliverables:
    - Staggering and Fragmentation for Improved Large Message Handling in libp2p GossipSub
- `misc/admin`
  - Overview:
    - Completed review to protocols and suggested code improvements.
  - Delivered Deliverables:
    - nim-libp2p#1307 rendezvous: code improvements
    - nim-libp2p#1313 yamux: code improvements
    - nim-libp2p#1310 AutonatV2
- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-kad-dht:routing-and-rpc`
  - Overview:
    - Began protobuf definitions for Kademlia DHT RPC messages
    - Initial work on FIND_NODE
  - Delivered Deliverables:
    - nim-libp2p#1324 feat(kad-dht): find nodes (WIP)
- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-maintenance:maintenance`
  - Overview:
    - Delivered QUIC and rendezvous fixes
    - Improved Docker support for DST, and identified potential dependency issues with nim / docker images.
  - Delivered Deliverables:
    - nim-libp2p#1308 fix: unsafe string usage
    - nim-libp2p#1306 chore: remove range checks from rendezvous
    - nim-libp2p#1312 fix(quic): continue accept when client certificate is incorrect
    - nim-libp2p#1320 chore(git): ignore auto generated test binaries
    - nim-libp2p#1319 chore: rendezvous improvements
    - nim-libp2p#1317 fix: do not use while loop for quic transport errors
    - nim-quic#66 fix: frames can arrive out of order, and write stream can fail regardless of returning a length
- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-transport:memory-transport`
  - Overview:
    - Implemented memory transport
  - Delivered Deliverables:
    - nim-libp2p#1304 feat(transport): add memory transport
    - nim-libp2p#1309 refactor: utilize singe bridgedConnections
- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-test-coverage:qa-consulting`
  - Overview:
    - reviewed and proposed major CI test optimizations;
    - partial implementation underway.
  - Delivered Deliverables:
    - nim-libp2p#1336 ci: test workflow execution time improvements
- `vac:p2p:acz:2025q2-acz-consulting:libp2p-mix-consulting`
  - Overview:
    - Resolved compilation issues and updated DST Gossipsub Test Node for mix support.
  - Delivered Deliverables:
    - mix#18 chore: allow overriding paths
    - dst-gossipsub-test-node#7 chore: write mix files to path, and remove peercount
    - dst-gossipsub-test-node#8 chore: update dockerfile
- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-webtransport:http3`
  - Overview:
    - Wrapped nghttp3 library
    - Ongoing development of HTTP/3 client
  - Delivered Deliverables:
    - nim-quic#68 feat(http3): add client (WIP)
    - nim-nghttp3
- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-autotls:certificate-request-auth`
  - Overview:
    - Prototyped standalone AutoTLS client with partial ACME support and JWT library improvements.
  - Delivered Deliverables:
    - [nim-jwt#22](https://github.com/yglukhov/nim-jwt/pull/22 feat: add `toFlattenedJson`
- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-autotls:dns-challenge`
  - Overview:
    - Added base36 support to `nim-stew`
    - Added `libp2p-key` multicodec
  - Delivered Deliverables:
    - nim-stew#243 feat: base36
    - nim-libp2p#1348 chore: add libp2p CID codec

### Tokenomics (public version) §

#### highlights §

- FAQ about the “Cats Fishing” game and the BONE$ token, including details on tokenomics, gameplay, and the project’s philosophy
- Developed comprehensive documentation and a full test suite for the CDX Token Price tool.
- Extensive analysis of Karma APY and implied price
- Conducted in-depth research for the infrastructure of Network States
- Conducted analysis on economic models for blockspace, and blobspace on Nomos, including comparative studies of Solana and Celestia.
- Analyzed token sales structures and valuation frameworks, and applied optimization methods to propose improved solutions for token sales.

#### report §

- `vac:tke:ift:catsfishing:simulations-and-release`

  - Overview:
    - FAQ about the “Cats Fishing” game and the BONE$ token, including details on tokenomics, gameplay, and the project’s philosophy
  - Completed tasks:
    - `vac:tke:ift:catsfishing:simulations-and-release:support:faq`

- `vac:tke:codex:insurance`

  - Overview:
    - Documentation and testsuite for the CDX Token Price tool
  - Completed tasks:
    - `vac:tke:codex:insurance:tool-monitoring`
    - `vac:tke:codex:insurance:debug-tool`

- `vac:tke:status:karma-incentives`

  - Overview:
    - Extensive analysis of Karma implied price
  - Completed tasks:
    - `vac:tke:status:karma-incentives:karma-apy`

- `vac:tke:nomos:macroeconomy`

  - Overview:
    - Preliminary research about NMO as money for Network States
    - Revision and discussion of the preliminary research about blockspace on Nomos
    - Preliminary research, revision, discussion, initial specification of blobspace on Nomos
    - Review of Solana’s transaction fee model
    - Review of the economics of Celestia
    - Review of block reward mechanisms for blockchains
    - Simple implementation of the Nomos Economic Model with fixed block rewards as a constant APY
  - Completed tasks:
    - `vac:tke:nomos:macroeconomy:revision-blockspace`
    - `vac:tke:nomos:macroeconomy:network-state-infra`
    - `vac:tke:nomos:macroeconomy:preliminary-block-rewards`
    - `vac:tke:nomos:macroeconomy:revision-da`

- `vac:tke:ift:tokenomics-research-forum`

  - Overview:
    - Review of token sales structures
    - Solving the token sales problem through optimization methods
    - Review of token valuation frameworks
  - Completed tasks:
    - `vac:tke:ift:tokenomics-research-forum:token-sales-opt`
    - `vac:tke:ift:tokenomics-research-forum:token-valuation`

### QA §

#### highlights §

- Added e2e tests for API compatibility and data flows between Nomos DA and Nomos consensus.
- Added a Dockerfile to build Nomos testnet image for debugging, including support for ARM/Linux.
- Compared Waku protocol implementations with existing RFCs to resolve discrepancies.
- Discovered high-throughput related issues in the Waku Go bindings.
- Added reliability tests for the Status-Go staging fleet.
- Stabilized and reorganized existing tests in nim-libp2p.
- Decoupled examples from unit tests for nim-libp2p.

#### report §

- `vac:qa:nomos:2025q2-da-testing`

  - Overview:
    - Added e2e tests for api compatibility and data flows between DA and consensus
  - Delivered Deliverables:
    - PR: Test/protocol API compatibility
    - PR: Test/interaction data flow
  - Completed tasks:
    - `vac:qa:nomos:2025q2-da-testing:protocol-api-compatibility`
    - `vac:qa:nomos:2025q2-da-testing:interaction-data-flow`

- `vac:qa:nomos:2025q2-e2e-testing`

  - Overview:
    - Maintenace and adjustments for nomos e2e tests
  - Delivered Deliverables:

    - PR: chore: Multiplatform testnet image for debugging

    - PR: chore: Add sharding to Github workflow

    - PR: fix: Padding error handling

- `vac:qa:waku:2025q2-interop-testing`

  - Overview:
    - Maintenace and adjustments for waku interop tests
  - Delivered Deliverables:
    - PR: Updated tests to no longer use deprecated pubsub flag
    - PR: Enabled RLN tests
    - PR: chore: add reconciliation metrics

- `ift:2025q2-qa-rfc-sync-waku`

  - Overview:
    - Compare and document discrepancies for each Waku protocol implementation against the Waku RFCs
  - Delivered Deliverables:
    - Relay
    - Filter
    - Lightpush

- `vac:qa:waku:2025q2-waku-go-bindings-testing`

  - Overview:
    - Ongoing maintenance of Waku go bindings tests
  - Delivered Deliverables:
    - Issue: High-Throughput Test Hangs or Fails Beyond 1024 Iterations
    - Issue: Node Doesn’t Fully Shut Down After Test Completion (Rendezvous & AutoNAT Tasks Keep Running)
    - PR: Increase endurance tests iterations after the fix

- `vac:qa:waku:2025q2-status-go-functional-testing`

  - Overview:
    - Expand functional testing for status-go by implementing targeted Waku feature tests, as outlined in epic.
  - Delivered Deliverables:
    - PR: test_: run wakuext tests on light client as well
    - PR: test_: reliability tests on staging fleet
  - Completed tasks:
    - `vac:qa:waku:2025q2-status-go-functional-testing:chat-actions-tests`

- `vac:2025q2-nim-libp2p-testing`

  - Overview:
    - Extend nim-libp2p testing coverage, documentation, and tooling.
  - Delivered Deliverables:
    - PR: test: parallel execution POC
    - PR: chore(ci): decouple examples from unit tests
    - PR: test: combine tests
    - PR: test: include missing tests in testall
    - PR: test(gossipsub): optimise heartbeat interval and sleepAsync
    - PR: test(gossipsub): reorganize tests by feature category

- `vac:qa:waku:2025q2-waku-sync-testing`

  - Overview:
    - Expand protocol test coverage for the Waku Sync protocol in nwaku
  - Delivered Deliverables:
    - Tracking sheet with missing coverage for unit tests
    - PR: test: Add comprehensive reconciliation unit-tests for Waku Store Sync

### DST §

#### highlights §

- Discovered more issues with Light nodes and communities in status-go
- Discovered issues in quic and mix in nimlibp2p.
- Great cross-colaboration between DST-P2P-AZC-waku for mix implementation.

#### report §

- `admin/misc`
  - 1 CC OOO Friday 18th Apr
  - 1 CC OOO Monday 21st Apr
  - 1 CC bank holiday Wed 23rd
  - 1 CC bank holiday Monday 21st April
  - All Hands
- `vac:dst:status:2025q2-status-go-evaluation`
  - Overview
    - Discovered several issues with light nodes and communities in status-go
    - Adapt code for status analysis, WIP
  - Delivered deliverables
    - Notion: Light nodes issue
- `vac:dst:vac:2025q2-libp2p-evaluation`
  - Overview
    - Started quic analysis
      - Found compiling + running issues
    - Found issues in mix
    - Coordinated with p2p/acz team about node refactor refactor
  - Delivered deliverables
    - Notion: Quic issues
    - Discord: Mix issues
    - PR: DST node changes for mix
- `vac:dst:ift:2025q2-vaclab`
  - Overview
    - Wrote a simulation framework (LARS - Lab Automated Resource Scheduler) in Rust
      - Rewrote LARS in Python
      - Redesigned LARS with a much smaller scope
  - Delivered deliverables
    - https://github.com/vacp2p/dst-lars
- `vac:dst:waku:2025q2-waku-tooling`
  - Overview
    - Helped Waku to analyze waku mixnet message delays
  - Delivered deliverables
    - Branch: Mixnet analysis code

### SC §

#### highlights §

- Present the staking protocol at the IFT All Hands
- Started working on bridge extension for SN
- Upgraded staking manager contract and updated staking system on testnet

#### report §

- `admin/misc`
  - Created slides and presented staking protocol at IFT offsite
  - Deployed Status communities contracts on BSC Testnet and mainnet
  - Completed tasks
  - Deliverables
    - Presentation Slides
    - Contract addresses
- `status:2025q2-sn-native-bridge-yield-bearing-module`
  - Made first changes for the native bridge extension for SN
  - Completed tasks
  - Deliverables
    - WIP Pull Request
    - TX Trace documents
      - https://notes.status.im/9DmbBneFTbGtOEBYU5W0Dg?view
      - https://notes.status.im/dAJPbmegSpKsBgzlW4QbwA?view
- `status:2025q1-staking-protocol-refinement`
  - Made first changes for the native bridge extension for SN
  - Completed tasks
    - status:2025q1-staking-protocol-refinement:status-network-testnet-deployment
  - Deliverables
    - Contract Addresses

### ACZ §

#### highlights §

- Release the Zerokit witness generation performance report
- Released dockerized mixnet to DST team

#### report §

- `ift:2025q2-de-mls-tesnet`
  - Overview: Refactored Admin struct, key handling messages, and integrated group/admin features for message flow and stat management.
  - Delivered deliverables:
    - A PR for simplifying logic
- `ift:2025q2-zerokit`
  - Overview:
    - Adding benchmarks and unit test regarding to the bottleneck identification
    - iden3 witness calculator integration review
    - Bring Back WebAssembly Support for ZeroKit
  - Delivered deliverables:
    - A PR for poseidon benchmark
    - A PR for poseidon unit test
    - A draft PR for witness calculator review
    - A report about the witness generation performance
    - A commit for bringing back WebAssembly for ZeroKit
- `ift:2025q2-rln-status-l2`
  - Overview:
    - Identifying the prover instance workflow
    - Conduct research about current arhitecture
  - Delivered deliverables:
    - Review the current architecture
    - Prover instance scenario document
  - Completed tasks:
- `ift:2025q2-ift-zk-calls`
  - Overview:
    - Conducted the April IFT ZK Call
  - Delivered deliverables:
    - Presentation record
    - Forum post
  - Completed tasks:
    - `ift:2025q2-ift-zk-calls:ift-zk-call-1`
- `ift:2025q2-libp2p-mix-testnet`
  - Overview:
    - Released the dockerized gossipsub over mixnet to the DST team.
  - Delivered deliverables:
    - A branch of dockerized gossipsub
- `ift:2025q2-think-tank`
  - Overview:
    - Maintain think-tank docs by updating it with state of art improvement.
  - Delivered deliverables:
    - A notion page think tank
  - Completed tasks:
    - `ift:2025q2-think-tank:maintain-1`

### RFC §

#### highlights §

- Held a RFC Workshop at the IFT offsite
- COSS update: statuses (retired, deleted, deprecated)

#### report §

- `vac:rfc:waku:2025q2-rfc-iteration`
  - Overview:
    - Completed most of Waku RFCs for this quarter and got positive feedback, only a few left for this quarter:
  - Report:
    - RLN-contract - https://github.com/waku-org/specs/pull/62
    - 53/X3DH - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/150
    - 54/X3DH-Sessions - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/151
    - 30/ADAPTIVE-NODES - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/147
    - 66/WAKU2-METADATA, https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/148
- `vac:rfc:nomos:2025q2-rfc-iteration:`
  - Overview:
    - Included new Nomos RFCs, and based on previous work, split of DA RFCs. Spoke to Nomos team and gain an understanding of what is necessary.
    - Will also include Mantle spec in the list for Q2, based on discussions from the offsite.
  - Report:
    - Nomos SDP (draft) - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/157
    - DA Encoding (draft) - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/156
- `vac:rfc:codex:2025q2-rfc-iteration:`
  - Overview:
    - Restarted discussions with the Codex team, conclusion is that we will try to make 3 new RFCs (the block exchange, erasure coding, proving system) based on documentation and codebase.
- `vac:rfc:codex:2025q2-rfc-iteration:`
  - Overview:
    - After discussion with the team, decided to include 2 new RFCs: Key Protocol and UTXO specifications.
- `admin/misc`
  - Overview:
    - On the offsite, we held an RFC workshop, it was successful so we can try to make it a series (through town hall or a standalone medium, like an “RFC Call”).
    - Improvements to COSS based on status, we made the process clearer now and it went through several rounds of review.
    - Working on collaboration with QA.
    - Potential commitment: start writing up RFCs from Web3, not just within the IFT projects.
  - Report:
    - Specification writing workshop, guideline (can maybe become an RFC at some point): https://www.notion.so/Specification-Writing-Workshop-1c48f96fb65c80adb159e74170e245cc
    - COSS changes - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/38
    - QA + RFC collab doc (WIP) - https://www.notion.so/QA-RFC-Collaboration-1dc8f96fb65c80ef99dbd5ea8d27ede5
    - One-pager for the writeup of Web3 RFCs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SS3rjPGDU175YXdvO-zyGnCh-HVjqSYtCyLzpYy9a9A/edit?tab=t.0

### Nim §

#### highlights §

- Tooling (`nimlanbserver` and `vscode extension`) release with multiple fixes and improvements
- Test Runner for `unittest2`

### Security §

#### highlights §

- Defined a new signatory db schema for tracking
- Evaluated and selected hardware wallets models for signing
- Codex modular contracts threat modeling
- Github Actions assessment
- Deployed CC Wallet Report for Finance use
- Integrated Pager Duty to Trading View alerts

#### report §

- `ift:2025q2-signatory-registry-implementation:signatory-scheme-definition`
  - Define a new signatory schema (attributes to be recorded, excluding names or any other value that could expose the real identity of the signer)
  - Output:
    - https://www.notion.so/1df8f96fb65c806cbb08d2abfeebf87b?v=1df8f96fb65c81fbbeb6000cf2596606&pvs=4
- `ift:2025q2-signing-devices-upgrade:device-selection-and-testing`
  - Evaluate and select new hardware wallets models (that support clear signing)
  - Output:
    - https://www.notion.so/1dc8f96fb65c80168db1ff203aedf7af?v=1dc8f96fb65c8187af08000c7e00f72b&pvs=4
- `ift:2025q2-audit-plan-refinement:smart-contract-threat-mapping`
  - Review of Codex’s contract deployment plans
  - Determine smart contract requirements and testing
  - Code review of the implementation entails to slot-reversations, proof-erasure,contract deployment
  - Output:
    - Finalized Codex modular contract threat scenarios per discussion on Offsite
    - Reviewing capabilities of the vendor and implementation plan
- `ift:2025q2-cicd-security-review:github-actions-assessment`
  - Review of security warning from CodeQL and Dependency check
  - Investigation of supply chain attacks regarding npm
  - Revalidation of dependencies, npms and utils in projects across the IFT orgs
  - Output:
    - Enhanced GitHub Actions security
    - Audited reusable workflows
    - Updated token management policies
- `ift:2025q2-finance-automation:payment-automation`
  - Generate a monthly report, based on a scheduled trigger, that contains the wallet addresses of all CCs from Bamboo HR system.
  - Output:
    - Upload and set the workflow in production n8n cloud
    - https://www.notion.so/ift-2025q2-finance-automation-payment-automation-1c78f96fb65c8024bedbe4e983f0106d?pvs=4
- `ift:2025q2-finance-automation:trading-monitoring-alerts`
  - Generate Pager Duty incidents from Trading View alerts
  - Includes filtering based on Trading View alert in order to eliminate risk of duplicates
  - Output:
    - Upload and set the workflow in production n8n cloud
    - https://www.notion.so/ift-2025q2-finance-automation-trading-monitoring-alerts-1ce8f96fb65c80929c51f3f5a94172c8?pvs=4

### Nescience §

#### Highlights §

- Designated scope and responsibilities for NSSA components (wallet, SDK and zkVM) for end-to-end programmability.
- Investigated and designed two execution consistency mechanisms (RBC and VBC) for private invocations that update the public state.
- Investigated selective privacy wrappers for public functions, and the consistency between selective privacy and consistency mechanisms.
- Started defining the formal execution model for shielded and deshielded transactions.
- Engineering wise, implemented smart contract interactions with public state and extracted smart contract primitives.
- Result-wise, we have clear improvements in end to end programmability enhancements and SE/DE execution models. Also, our code has improved and additional features has been added and redundancies removed.

#### Report §

- `vac:nes:state-separation-architecture-poc`
  - Overview:
    - Fully described transaction lifecycle from wallet to SDK to zkVM to sequencer.
    - Described SDK access and calls to Risc0.
    - Designed execution consistency mechanisms (RBC and VBC) for private invocations that update the public state and determined use-cases for each.
    - Investigated how smart contracts can be written or compiled to support hybrid execution (both public and private calls).
    - Explored contract-based and function-based privacy within NSSA.
    - Explored selective privacy wrappers for public functions (circuit designs for these wrappers were outlined).
    - Examined re-run approach and verified approach for execution consistency mechanism.
    - Implementated storing smart contract data in DB.
    - Implemented smart contract context generation.
    - Implemented of public state provability.
  - List of deliverables (ordered as in task management):
    - End-to-end programmability
    - Transaction lifecycle
    - Integration of NSSA SDK with RISC0 zkVM
    - Execution consistency mechanisms
    - Selective privacy function execution vs Execution consistency mechanisms
    - Function-level vs. contract-level privacy in hybrid smart contracts
    - Hybrid smart contract approaches with RBC and VBC
    - Smart contract public state storage in DB
    - SC public stage storage testing
    - Smart contract public context
    - serde_json instead of GroupEncoding serialization
    - Implementation of Public State Provability
    - Deterministic serialization of public sc context
    - Storage primitives split
    - Refactor
    - Fix register account method
    - Various qol and fixes
  - Completed tasks (big tasks):
    - `vac:nes:2025q2:state-separation-architecture-poc:sc-prog`
    - `vac:nes:2025q2:state-separation-architecture-poc:sc-public`
    - `vac:nes:2025q2:state-separation-architecture-poc:update`
    - `vac:nes:2025q2:state-separation-architecture-poc:sc-prim`