# 2025-08-11 Vac weekly
Vac 2025/08/11 § highlights § P2P: Release v1.12.0 of nim-libp2p. QA: Continued expansion of Status critical flows tests, including accounts service and schema validation refactor.

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# 2025-08-11 Vac weekly

Aug 11, 2025, 8 min read

- #vac-updates

## Vac 2025/08/11 §

### highlights §

- P2P: Release v1.12.0 of nim-libp2p.
- QA: Continued expansion of Status critical flows tests, including accounts service and schema validation refactor.
- QA: Extended Waku interop REST API coverage, added rendezvous discovery and debug/admin API tests.
- QA: Merged multiple nim-libp2p GossipSub performance PRs and began exploring Yamux testing.
- QA: Completed multi-chain wallet testing in Keycard Shell, with retest scheduled on new OS.
- QA: Validated Nwaku v0.36 deployment in Status staging fleet.
- QA: Progressed Status Desktop maintenance, crash reproduction, and custom Waku node testing.
- QA: Started RLN smart contract testing efforts.
- DST: Discovered issue in Status functional tests.
- ACZ: Consensus implementation is done, moving forward with tests.
- ACZ: Publish the Zerokit perf blogpost on X.
- RFC: Re-start looking into Codex.
- NES: NSSA v0.1 protocol specs are ready and being implemented.
- NES: NSSA sequencer specs are almost ready.
- NES: Implemented cipher streams encryption using R0.

### vac:p2p: §

- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q3-nimlibp2p-maintenance:maintenance`
  - Release v1.12.0 of nim-libp2p
  - enabling quic transport in unit test nim-libp2p#1604
    - currently postponed investigation on random nil pointer dereference issue
    - investigated why quic fails with larger messages nim-libp2p#1603
    - fix(quic): test improvement nim-libp2p#1595
    - chore(quic): fix flaky test when eof is expected nim-libp2p#1611
    - chore(quic): readOnce better exception handling nim-libp2p#1610
    - fix(quic): setting shortAgent nim-libp2p#1609
  - Investigating IWANT split message bug
- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q3-nimlibp2p-universal-connectivity-app`
  - UI with different panes and some info on these panes
  - Other implementations can receive vacp2p/universal-connectivity/nim-peer
- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q3-nimlibp2p-mix:mix-core`
  - [vacp2p/nim-libp2p#71] fix: do not encode a delay for last hop
  - Continue working on main-s2 branch of mix
    - Add missing procs required by Waku
    - Fix poc_gossipsub examples
  - Work on nwaku mix-main-s2 branch to update their code to use latest mix
  - vacp2p/dst-gossipsub-test-node#11 chore: use main-s2 branch
    - This branch contains latest changes from mix
- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q3-nimlibp2p-kad-dht:data-storage`
  - putval RP just about ready for merge

### vac:tke: §

- `admin`
  - 2 CC day off
- `vac:tke:nomos:stress-test::review-block-rewards`
  - addressed questions about the spec
  - adapted and simplified the KPI-based token emission code
- `vac:tke:nomos:stress-test::review-blockspace`
  - reviewed last week’s meeting and ask more questions about requirements
  - helped Juan finalize this work
  - met with Nomos to discuss new developments
- `vac:tke:nomos:stress-test::review-nomos-da`
  - Joined research meeting
  - Implemented discussed improvements on blockspace doc, as discussed with Thomas, Marcin and Frederico
  - Meet with Thomas, Marcin, and Frederico to discuss improvements to blockspace doc (v2)
- `vac:tke:ift:logos-token::logos-strategy`
  - read Logos strategy docs
- `vac:tke:ift:logos-token:unified-model`
  - Keep working on ecosystem doc, exploring hybrid approaches and next steps described there
- `vac:tke:status:karma-incentives::karma-tiers`
  - continued reviewing the whole work
- `vac:tke:status:karma-incentives:staking-demo-tiers`
  - added tiers overview to staking demo app
  - added user’s active tier to staking demo app
  - brainstormed around Karma usage
- `vac:tke:waku:services-incentive`
  - reviewed part of the Service Incentivisation MVP
  - met with Waku to discuss the work above
  - prepared for meeting Waku and discussion on PoC and other topics
  - follow ups from the meeting
- `vac:tke:ift:tokenomics-research-forum::token-valuation`
  - reviewed the token valuation analysis and continued writing the report
- `vac:tke:ift:tokenomics-research-forum::grantico`
  - continued work in spare time
- `vac:tke:ift:tokenomics-research-forum::control`
  - Keep pushing research on Control Problem

### vac:qa: §

- `status:2025q3-status-go-functional-testing:critical-flows`
  - test_: add account
  - test_: accounts service tests
- `status:2025q3-status-go-functional-testing:framework-improvements`
  - test_: schema validation refactor
- `waku:2025q3-interop-testing:maintenance`
  - chore: shard-specific metrics update
- `status:2025q3-status-qa-desktop:release-testing`
  - Validated Nwaku v0.36 deploy in status.staging fleet
- `waku:2025q3-rln-smart-contract-testing:edge-cases`
  - Started unit test expansion with 3 new tests:
- `keycard:2025q3-keycard-testing:shell-multichain-wallets`
  - Completed OKX wallet test, results ready; retest planned with new Shell OS
- `waku:2025q3-interop-testing:REST-APIs-Extended`
  - PR #133 with extended REST API calls and wrappers
  - Added tests for admin/debug REST APIs
  - Noted peer connection issue when adding more than one relay peer
- `waku:2025q3-interop-testing:rendezvous-peer-discovery`
  - PR #132 with basic test scenario
  - Reported testing limitations and unexpected behavior to Waku team
- `waku:2025q3-interop-testing:wakucanary`
  - Debugged WebSocket issue with Ivan; looking for working WSS peer
- `vac:2025q3-nim-libp2p-testing:gossipsub-performance`
  - test(gossipsub): Performance tests - docker stats
  - test(gossipsub): Performance tests - plot docker stats
  - test(gossipsub): Performance tests - plot latency history
- `status:2025q3-status-qa-desktop:maintenance`
  - Worked on Issue 18415
- `status:2025q3-status-qa-desktop:release-testing`
  - Tested PR 18495
  - Opened Issue 18503
  - Attempted crash reproduction on wake-from-sleep and Issue 18522
  - Opened Issue 18524
  - Tested Waku staging fleet update
  - Investigated custom Waku node usage in tests
  - PR 18532 - began testing and adapting autotests
- `admin/misc`
  - OOO: 5 cc Days
  - Stared interview process for replacement CC

### vac:dst: §

- `admin/misc`
  - 1 CC sick leave on Thursday, Friday
  - 1 CC OOO entire Week
  - Call with Waku for setting Tailscale + Grafana + Victorialogs
  - Create DST Github Timeline 2025Q3 for tracking task dates.
  - Quick call with new CC going over the 10ksim repo
  - Call with Status from Status to check status scalability
    - Discussed several follow ups
    - Discovered issues in Status functional tests
  - Discuss with infra some issues in Grafana metrics
- `vac:dst:ift:2025q3-dst-research-destination:ethereum-foundation`
  - Discuss next meeting with Probelabs
  - Prepare small presentation for proposal workflow idea
- `vac:dst:vac:2025q3-libp2p-evaluation:regression-testing`
  - Retry analysis of nim-libp2p v1.12
    - Notion: Report WIP
    - Investigated issues in lab stability for bandwidth analysis.
  - Work on second Mix analysis
- `vac:dst:waku:2025q3-waku-evaluation:js-waku`
  - Manual testing of some API endpoints (eg. publish message)
- `vac:dst:waku:2025q3-dst-tooling:general-tooling`
  - get_store_messages.py cleanup
  - Added logging of events to experiments framework and use it to automatically generate time intervals for analysis script
    - Github PR

### vac:sc: §

- `ift:2025q3-security-audits`
  - Audited Malda protocol
- `ift:2025q3-sc-learnup-sessions`
  - Working on lending protocol deep dive
- `vac:sc:ift:2025q3-fv-tools-research`
  - tried Kontrol invariants and other features of it
- `vac:sc:status:2025q3-maintaining-status-contracts`
  - Decoupling from StakeManager - StakeVault https://github.com/vacp2p/staking-reward-streamer/pull/240
- `admin/misc`
  - Updated commitments/task according to recent changes
  - Call with TKE about logos token economics

### vac:acz: §

- `ift:2025q3-de-mls-tesnet:consensus-layer`
  - Implemented consensus service and integrated with current de-mls code. Right now I did some mock yes vote for everyone for real app, but there is test which cover not mock case PR
- `ift:2025q3-libp2p-mix-testnet:update-rfc`
  - Regarding PR #173, resumed refactor of section 8. And introduced destination embedding in the Sphinx packet.
- `ift:2025q3-libp2p-mix-testnet:libp2p-mix-repo`
  - PR #71
    - Identified that delay was being incorrectly embedded in the final hop in `main-s2` branch.
  - PR #72
    - Debugged `Destination does not support mix error`.
    - Identified that source address populated in Mix protocol instance doesn’t match the expected address.
- `acz:nes:2025q3-nescience-consulting:nomos-deep-dive`
  - Finished deep dive to determine requirements for NSSA to run as a sovereign rollup on Nomos.
- `ift:2025q3-ift-zk-calls:ift-zk-call-2`
  - Led August’s zk call on sumcheck notes in notion.
  - Added forum post here
- `vac:acz:nes:2025q3-nescience-consulting:key-protocol-spec`
  - Added key protocols implementation in Python to specs document
- `acz:nomos:2025q3-nomos-consulting:zk-consulting-nomos-2`
  - Finished review of total stake inference analysis.
- `ift:2025q3-rln-status-l2:sc-testing`
  - Fixed the Docker build and published the Prover’s Docker image for Nadeem for end-to-end testing of the monorepo PR.
  - Got familiar with the changes in this PR to help Nadeem with the end-to-end testing.
- `ift:2025q3-zerokit:merkle-tree-revising`
  - Worked on the main problem in this task PR.
- `ift:2025q3-zerokit:perfomance-updates-blogpost`
  - Publish on vac.dev task is done.
- `admin/misc`
  - 2 cc is ooo for whole week

### vac:rfc: §

- `vac:rfc:waku:2025q3-rfc-iteration:qaku`
  - Continue work on qaku rfc - https://github.com/waku-org/specs/pull/77
- `vac:rfc:waku:2025q3-rfc-iteration`
  - Started to look for the next waku rfc updates on rfc index and waku/specs
- `vac:rfc:nomos:2025q3-rfc-iteration:mantle-digital-signature`
  - Complete on digital signature rfc, ready for review - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/167
- `vac:rfc:nomos:2025q3-rfc-iteration:hardware-requirements`
  - Finalized the HW requirements: https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/172
- `vac:rfc:nomos:2025q3-rfc-iteration:p2p-network-specification`
  - Addressed the comments: https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/169
- `vac:rfc:nomos:2025q3-rfc-iteration:da-encoding`
  - Did one more round based on reviews, spec has been heavily changed since last iteration: https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/156
- `vac:rfc:nomos:2025q3-rfc-iteration:nomos-sdp`
  - Did one more round based on reviews, spec has been heavily changed since last iteration: https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/157
- `admin/misc`
  - Research call blog post and schedule update - https://forum.vac.dev/t/ift-research-call-july-30th-2025-performance-evaluation-of-gossipsub-improvement-proposals/553

### vac:sec: §

- `ift:2025q3-wallet-policy-update:write-and-review-new-version`
  - Drafted a runbook for onboarding new signatories (identity verification)
- `ift:2025q3-awareness-program:web3-security-essentials`
  - Started sharing web3 news and IoC with the Finance team
- `ift:2025q3-multisig-secondary-interface-deployment:test-new-interface`
  - Used Onchain Den with real transactions and documented results
- `ift:2025q3-security-automation:automatic-wallet-index-updates`
  - Started the plan to integrate the multisig wallet validator to n8n
- `ift:2025q3-cicd-security-review:status-design-reviews`
  - Discussed follow-up recommendations on wallet architecture issues raised during last week’s review
  - Manually traced CI/CD boundaries across top-5 components and link security gaps (Dependabot/CodeQL)
- `ift:2025q3-vulma-and-ir:incidents`
  - Collected and archived phishing-related artifacts (email headers, wallet activity logs, message history)
  - Drafted response playbook (1-pager) from Keycard phishing case, covering detection and containment steps
- `ift:2025q3-vulma-and-ir:remediation-tracking`
  - Manually validated top 10 unresolved CodeQL alerts across 3 repos and flag false positives
  - Wrote and shared mid-cycle summary of remediations (including trends, blockers, progress rate)
- `ift:2025q3-finance-automation`
  - Continued improvement lists and mass PO’s for finance processes
- `ift:2025q3-iam-operations:remove-unnecessary-users`
  - Finalized workflows and tests for log extraction from systems
  - Finalized workflows and tests for identifying, verifying leavers from systems
- `ift:2025q3-security-automation:automatic-wallet-index-updates`
  - Drafted workflow for multisig wallet onchain validation

### vac:nes: §

- `vac:nes:2025q3:state-separation-architecture-poc:specs`
  - Finished working on the sequencer specs.
  - Implemented an encryption demo using R0.
  - Continued working on NSSA v0.1 specs draft.
- `state-separation-architecture-poc:wallet`
  - Finished PR 99 on node refactor into wallet. Merge request
  - Started PR 101 on wallet accounts storage. Merge request
- `vac:nes:2025q3:state-separation-architecture-poc:key-protocol`
  - Implemented public part of NSSA v0.1 in the testnet (draft).

### vac:nim: §

- `ift:2025q3-nimble`
  - Normalization (https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1443)
    - Normalizes requirements
    - normalize should also take alias into account
    - progress
    - Use original requirements for installing packages
    - Internally normalizes deps
    - [OK] should ignore features specified in `requires` when using the vmparser
    - adds urls to the packageToDependency table
    - removes comment
    - Stores the package version table in SATResult. Uses it to do a lookup fallback
    - temporary comments an “easy” to fix test
    - [OK] cannot remove package with develop reverse dependency
    - [OK] can uninstall
    - [OK] Forge alias is generated inside lockfile
    - Removes normalizedRequirements lookup table
  - Normalization (https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1442)
    - Expands SolvedPackages to hold the url and remove the need for the normalization lookup table
    - Progress
  - Normalize test (https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1441)
    - Use original requirements for installing packages
    - Internally normalizes deps
    - [OK] should ignore features specified in `requires` when using the vmparser
    - Improves normalization
  - Normalize requirement exp (https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1440)
    - Normalize also normalizes cases. Fix pkg local cache for tsat test
  - Normalizes requirements (https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1439)
    - Update test data to match the new PackageInfoMinimal. Progress.
    - Fixes typo