# 2025-09-22 Vac weekly
Vac 2025/09/22 § highlights § P2P: Release v1.13.0 P2P: AutonatV2 development complete QA: Status backend IP change tests fixed. QA: Waku interop maintenance bug found with invalid JSON handling, retro scripts updated, and maintenance PR opened.

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# 2025-09-22 Vac weekly

Sep 22, 2025, 10 min read

- #vac-updates

## Vac 2025/09/22 §

### highlights §

- P2P: Release v1.13.0
- P2P: AutonatV2 development complete
- QA: Status backend IP change tests fixed.
- QA: Waku interop maintenance bug found with invalid JSON handling, retro scripts updated, and maintenance PR opened.
- QA: Waku Lite protocol tester reworked scripts now working with Grafana data visibility.
- QA: Status desktop Qt upgrade and Windows CI work ongoing, new issue opened, backup-user-data feature in progress.
- QA: Status mobile porting tests to e2e\appium with multiple PRs
- DST: Nim-libp2p v1.13 report ready
- DST: Mix analysis shows that:
  - Mix relaying still works as intended after fixes
  - There is a weird ~7x delay for mixnet messages. Investigating.
- DST: Removed cron from DST nim-libp2p node so an external publisher can be used.
- SC: Implemented Karma conversion, allowing users to convert virtual Karma to actual Karma, which enables the Status treasury account to transfer earned Karma.

### vac:p2p: §

- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q3-nimlibp2p-maintenance:maintenance`
  - Released v1.13.0
  - QUIC improvements
    - chore(test): add different client-server usecases nim-quic#119
      - this test seems to reproduce nil pointer issue: nim-quic#120
    - refactor: remove framesorter nim-quic#118
    - chore(quic): better error handling in stream.write() nim-libp2p#1693
  - chore: nimble config tidy nim-libp2p#1696
  - feat: add AsyncSemaphore nim-chronos#586
  - vacp2p/nim-libp2p#1692 chore: add missing import
- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q3-nimlibp2p-mix:mix-core`
  - Extract from vacp2p/mix repo the code to nim-libp2p, and fix observations product of code reviews
    - vacp2p/nim-libp2p#1687 feat(mix): crypto
    - vacp2p/nim-libp2p#1688 feat(mix): sequence number generator and tag manager
    - vacp2p/nim-libp2p#1689 feat(mix): serialization
    - vacp2p/nim-libp2p#1690 feat(mix): message
    - vacp2p/nim-libp2p#1691 feat(mix): sphinx
    - vacp2p/nim-libp2p#1700 feat(mix): SURBs and fragmentation
    - vacp2p/nim-libp2p#1702 feat(mix): mixnode
    - vacp2p/nim-libp2p#1703 feat(mix): mix_protocol and entry connection
    - vacp2p/nim-libp2p#1704 feat(mix): reply connection
  - Currently adding back `exit == destination`, but hidden behind compilation time flag, (requested by @prem_chaitanya)
- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q3-nimlibp2p-mix:mix-specs`
  - Review Mix RFC, propose adding a randomized delay before the initiator sends each Sphinx packet to the first hop.
    - This is important to avoid metadata leakage when multiple Sphinx packets are sent in a burst.
    - Could happen due to fragmentation of a large message by an upstream protocol
- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-autonat-v2:service`
  - Add service to `builders.nim` nim-libp2p#1686
  - Fixed service startup nim-libp2p#1694
- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-autonat-v2:interop`
  - Added interop tests with go-libp2pnim-libp2p#1695
  - Fixed a couple issues presented by the interop tests nim-libp2p#1698
- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q3-nimlibp2p-maintenance:go-libp2p-daemon`
  - Started looking into getting rid of go daemon nim-libp2p#1701
  - For this, we’ll need to look into interop tests, since they’re the ones who will replace the go daemon tests
- `misc/admin`
  - Prepare Q3 commitments
  - Assist in queries

### vac:tke: §

- `vac:tke:nomos:stress-test::review-pos-sims`
  - debugged all plots and results
- `vac:tke:nomos:stress-test::dyn-stake-estimation`
  - reviewed current proposals
  - Keep working on requirements for DSE implementation
  - To meet with Nomos team on Friday
- `vac:tke:ift:logos-token::logos-strategy`
  - finalized reviewing token sales course
  - read launch strategy doc
  - further reasearch for Wednesday discussion
  - prepare overview for Wednesday discussion
  - Progress towards this end
- `vac:tke:status:karma-incentives`
  - reviewed Karma issuance model and dashboard
  - continue work on modeling Karma issuance
  - continue building a streamlit dashboard with issuance modeling based on real L2 TVL data
  - Catch up
- `vac:tke:status:cf`
  - Work out analysis of Reddit and Farcaster Scrapers
  - Discuss with Matt on Monday
- `vac:tke:ift:tokenomics-research-forum::grantico`
  - minor fixes
- `vac:tke:ift:tokenomics-research-forum::control`
  - Review Grantico
  - Polish research on Opt. Control

### vac:qa: §

- `status:2025q3-status-go-functional-testing:accounts`
  - PR 6921: account services p4
- `status:2025q3-status-go-functional-testing:framework-improvements`
  - PR 6932: fix ip change tests
- `waku:2025q3-interop-testing:maintenance`
  - Issue 3572: invalid JSON when contentTopic contains backslashes
  - Helped Zoltan with retro script for bug above
  - PR 137: maintenance
- `waku:2025q3-interop-testing:liteprotocoltester`
  - Discussed Sonda tool issues with Zoltan
  - Attempted fixes, reworked scripts—now working with Grafana only
- `status:2025q3-status-qa-desktop:maintenance`
  - PR 18814: Qt upgrade
  - PR 18724: Windows CI for e2e
- `status:2025q3-status-qa-desktop:release-testing`
  - Issue 18846: opened
- `status:2025q3-status-qa-mobile:port-tests`
  - Tested various PRs for mobile build locally
  - PR 18848 - porting to e2e_appium
  - PR 18852 - porting to e2e_appium
- `admin/misc`
  - started Q4 commitments
  - prepare Q3 retro
  - OOO: 11 cc Day

### vac:dst: §

- `admin/misc`
  - Plan pending tasks for Q3 and new ones
    - RLN, nim-libp2p v1.13, status-backend benchmarks, deployment refactor…
  - Another lab refactor coordination
- `vac:dst:status:2025q3-status-go-chat-protocol-benchmarks:relay-node-benchmark-2`
  - Prepare scenarios for relay only
- `vac:dst:status:2025q3-status-go-chat-protocol-benchmarks:cleanup-resources`
  - Cleanup status benchmark PRs
- `vac:dst:vac:2025q3-libp2p-evaluation:evaluate-quic-v0.2.9`
  - Test quic in v1.13 report
- `vac:dst:vac:2025q3-libp2p-evaluation:regression-testing`
  - Nim-libp2p v1.13 report
- `vac:dst:waku:2025q3-waku-scaling:TWN-supports-RLN-tree`
  - Call with Waku for RLNV2 contract deployment
  - Prepare scenario. Not sure if we really need the lab for this.
- `vac:dst:nomos:2025q3-nomos-scaling:nomos-deployment-test`
  - Coordinate with Nomos regarding the testnet
  - Converting local Nomos compose.yaml to Kubernetes, to realize the first deploymet
- `vac:dst:vac:2025q3-libp2p-evaluation:mix-re-evaluation`
  - Logged times were using `Moment.now()` instead of a synced clock in `dst-changes-main-s2`
    - Github commit
  - Found issue where mix/mix_protocol was logging `current = startTime` instead of current time.
  - Found a long delay in Exit nodes that make it appear that gossip network message delay is higher than it is
  - There is ~7x delay for mixnet messages. Gossip messages are fine.
  - There are no messages being gossiped before they finished traversing the mixnet
- `vac:dst:ift:2025q3-dst-tooling:deployment-refactor`
  - Implemented building Kubernetes deployment yamls for regression nodes with Python instead of helm
- `vac:dst:ift:2025q3-dst-tooling:nim-libp2p-cron-removal`
  - Added http endpoint to libp2p test node PR here
    - Can send messages based on both, yaml and detached publisher
    - Can relay/generate messages, and added support for health monitoring
    - Working fine on shadow, still need to test on k8s
  - Added interaction options to detached publish controller PR here
    - Can allow publishing/relaying messages
    - Allows publisher selection/rotation
    - Added Readme
- `vac:dst:ift:2025q3-dst-tooling:nim-libp2p-dst-node-refactor`
  - Worked on merging mix support in test node.

### vac:sc: §

- `status:2025q3-new-karma-requirements:votes`
  - experimented solution with multi-delegation for Karma
  - merged single delegation solution for Karma https://github.com/status-im/status-network-monorepo/pull/26
- `status:2025q3-new-karma-requirements:distributed-slashing`
  - reviewd new RLN for Karma slashing
- `status:2025q3-new-karma-requirements:virtual-karma-conversion`
  - Finished implementation/refactor of Karma conversion
  - PR: https://github.com/status-im/status-network-monorepo/pull/28

### vac:acz: §

- `nes:2025q3-nescience-consulting:specs-compat`
  - Examined current testnet code base and specifications for NSSA v0.1 for compatibility and exploits. Detected inconsistency with note commitments (minor). Discussed with Sergio program owner in accounts.
- `ift:2025q3-libp2p-mix-testnet:update-rfc`
  - Continued work on Section 9 (Security Considerations) — in progress on mix-rev1-security branch.
- `ift:2025q3-zerokit:libp2p-mix-repo`
  - Had a 1:1 discussion with P2P team
    - On adding `exit==destination` back as a experimental compile time option for Waku.
    - Changes to be done in RFC and implemention to make sure they are aligned - opened Issue 87
- `ift:2025q3-libp2p-mix-testnet:consulting-waku-mix`
  - Left follow up comments on the blog post on Mix implementation in `js-libp2p` and `js-waku`.
  - Followed up on Issue 86 - of having the exit send structured error messages in case of an application layer errors.
- `ift:2025q3-rln-status-l2:monorepo-review`
  - Reviewed new end-to-end tests from Nadeem’s merged code.
    - Updated to the latest prover code to run with the monorepo.
    - Smart contracts cannot be deployed because the L2 block creation step is stalled (following up with Nadeem on this).
- `ift:2025q3-rln-status-l2:stress-test`
  - Bench PmTree depth 20 versus depth 21
- `ift:2025q2-zerokit:zerokit-maintaining`
  - Create issue about merkle tree too many users
  - Answering discord discussion about Zerokit Nim binding
  - Created an issue in circom-rln repo: https://github.com/Rate-Limiting-Nullifier/circom-rln/issues/17
  - Created a discussion in Github about circuits generation
    - Posted in Notion for now: https://www.notion.so/Zerokit-zkey-file-generation-process-2738f96fb65c8030aff2e2bb172ff508?pvs=25
    - Reading about KZG Summoning Ceremony
    - Merged PR & PR in Zerokit.
    - Fixed a segmentation fault in PR
    - Read the Circom documentation and trusted setup part on KZG Summoning Ceremony
    - Generate circuits with depths of 10 and 30 in Zerokit and benchmarked with Prover.
    - Discussed scaling membership on Discord and read about Gas Checking Section
- `ift:2025q3-de-mls-tesnet:multi-steward-rfc`
  - Enhance one tier of the RFC in Notion doc by having details on consensus types and security features.
- `vac:acz:ift:2025q3-discovery-exploration:disc-ng-specs`
  - Review the outline of discNG RFC draft version.
  - Continue working on Disc-ng RFC
  - Completed Wire Format Specification
- `ift:2025q3-rln-status-l2:rln-spec-maintain`
  - Write and discuss the gas checking part of the prover in notion.
  - Identify the 3 new points in spec that we need to clarify
- `ift:2025q3-rln-status-l2:maintaining`
  - List all open tasks and prioritize them.
  - Present the decentralized slashing to SC team for future changes to contracts.
  - Meeting with team about Prover next steps (performance, sharedDB, Merkle tree on chain, user limit checks)
  - PR Zerokit 0.9 + no parelllel feature - WIP
  - Prover too many users - WIP
  - Read Prover Gas checking spec
    - Discord discussion
  - Reading about consistent hashing
    - maglev
    - https://docs.rs/mpchash/2.0.9/mpchash/index.html
- `nes:2025q3-nescience-consulting:dex-research`
  - Completed to review NSSA dex document.
- `admin/misc`
  - Regarding ACZ think-tank, began cryptographic primitives section of thinktank.
  - 1 cc was ooo for a week
  - 1 cc was ooo for a day

### vac:rfc: §

- `vac:rfc:codex:2025q3-rfc-iteration`
  - Worked on first draft of codex DHT rfc, almost ready for review - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/187
  - Started research for Codex Slot builder rfc
- `vac:rfc:waku:2025q3-rfc-iteration`
  - Did some exploring in the OpChan repo, to get a better understanding.
- `vac:rfc:ift:logos-poc`
  - Logos Authentication Capability System - new RFC based on Logos POC - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/185
  - Logos SDK Implementation - new RFC based on Logos POC https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/186
- `admin/misc`
  - The IFT Research Call blog post - https://forum.vac.dev/t/ift-research-call-september-10th-2025/566

### vac:nim: §

- `ift:2025q1-nimble`
  - Better nim selection: stricter constraint for system nim. Order packages so sat prefers higher possible version (https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1480)
  - Proper formatting for nimble list. Adjust template. Make —version to work alongside —ver and —versions. Fixes #1469 (https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1479)
  - Keep track of semantic version in special versions. Fixes #1476 (https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1477)
  - Fixes an issue where nimble_dir was specified deps were global by default and ignored the -l flag as well (https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1473)
  - Implements cache expansion. (https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1471)
  - Fixes CI. Installs hg in win (https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1470)
    - Fixes CI. Installs hg in win
    - Updates name
    - adds hg to path
  - Research Issues, review PRs, etc.
  - Research Lazy Tagged Versions Mechanism: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/issues/1478
  - Update roadmap to reflect features that will be postponed.
- `vac:nim:ift:2025q3-nim-core-libs:nim-cbor-serialization`
  - Rework automatic serialization https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-cbor-serialization/pull/2
    - Regression tests
    - Docs
    - Add missing support to encode/decode any distinct type
  - Use Nimble dev for CI https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-cbor-serialization/pull/3
- `vac:nim:ift:2025q3-nim-core-libs:compile-time-support-for-json-and-cbor`
  - `nim-faststreams` Bump v0.5.0 https://github.com/status-im/nim-faststreams/pull/85
  - `nim-toml-serialization` Use faststreams comptime https://github.com/status-im/nim-toml-serialization/pull/98

### vac:sec: §

- `ift:2025q3-wallet-policy-update:backup-and-recovery-policies`
  - Finished Threat Model and identified actions for improving Recovery Process
- `ift:2025q3-multisig-secondary-interface-deployment:write-guides-and-best-practices`
  - Finished Threat Model and identify Operational Continuity actions
- `ift:2025q3-security-automation:automatic-wallet-index-updates`
  - Deployed TOTP for authenticating communications in the signing process
  - Deployed n8n Security Instance (trial/cloud)
- `ift:2025q3-multisig-secondary-interface-deployment:test-new-interface`
  - Used secondary interface in real and authorised transactions
- `ift:2025q3-cicd-security-review:status-design-reviews`
  - Performed targeted code audit of Status Desktop IPC message handling; looked for serialization/deserialization risks and add fuzzing tests with malformed payloads
  - Traced wallet key management code for unsafe memory handling (e.g., keys left in heap/stack); add zeroization and memory-safety checks
  - Reviewed PRs modifying desktop browser engine integration; test for sandbox escapes and directory traversal issues
- `ift:2025q3-vulma-and-ir:incidents`
  - Validation of the patches regarding to the STATUS-331/332/333 and the changes of the Status Desktop
  - Follow up actions on the NPM supply chain attack investigation
- `ift:2025q3-vulma-and-ir:remediation-tracking`
  - Dependabot CVE validation and patch implementation coverage
- `ift:2025q3-finance-automation`
  - Add improvements to Expensify PO
  - Developed and implemented Miro board generator
- `ift:2025q3-iam-operations:remove-unnecessary-users`
  - Investigated retrieving users from Github
  - Finalized identification of Inactive CCs for Google (live now)
  - Finalized identification of Inactive CCs for Discord (Sec server only)
  - Identified endpoints for generating report from Notion on existing resources
- `ift:2025q3-security-automation:automatic-wallet-index-updates`
  - Fixed issue with retrieval of wallet data from GitHub
- `ift:2025q3-security-automation`
  - Test several use cases for identifying best news articles
    - using http with SerpApi
    - using AI with Gemini and SerpApi
    - using AI with Gemini

### vac:nes: §

### vac:web §

- `ift:2025q3-logos-website`
- `keycard:2025q3-keycard-website`
  - update of Shell images
  - Help section - small updates & merge
  - update of comparison table - merge
  - Translating Keycard website
  - finish Quick start page
- `status:2025q3-sn-hub`
  - Prioritizing staking https://github.com/status-im/status-web/issues/777
  - Meeting Aragon team to agree on integrating depositing by them https://github.com/status-im/status-web/issues/775
  - Wallet Connect (in progress)
  - Adding funds withdrawing https://github.com/status-im/status-web/issues/780
  - finish Wallet Connect
- `status:2025q3-sn-website`
  - Translating Status Network website
  - Opening Status Network website for maintenance within monorepo https://github.com/status-im/status-web-private/commit/bbcdd2769939a61244e6e0c35dc885eeef5618ea
- `status:2025q3-status-website`
  - Translating Status website https://github.com/status-im/status-website/pull/1618
  - Opening Status website for public contributions and maintenance within monorepo https://github.com/status-im/status-web-private/commit/c729568e04a2617b13fdce2d3752d381a263aa0e
- `ift:2025q4-psf-website`
  - PSF ticketing solution alternatives: Bridge, GUTS Tickets, 3cket, Tixbase
  - Additional payment solution research
- `ift:2025q4-logos-website`
- `ift:2025q4-logos-contributions-portal`
  - Contribute Portal: Leaderboard implementation
  - Backend refactoring PR, PR
  - Update French and Korean translations https://github.com/acid-info/contribute.logos.co/commit/757fdf02bcf483c80a58bdcf1b0737fe4cc69baa
- `ift:2025q4-logos-marketing-campaign-narratives`
- `keycard:2025q4-keycard-docs`
  - Reviewing Keycard docs https://github.com/keycard-tech/keycard-website/pull/106
- `admin/misc`
  - Requesting a GitHub team across orgs
  - Planning Waku upgrade https://github.com/status-im/status-web/issues/800
  - Onboarding Comms’ project management tool https://app.clickup.com/9009185920/v/o/s/90140140270
  - Collecting team’s commitments and updates https://github.com/vacp2p/roadmap/pull/273/files
  - Monitoring wallet provider usage to save cost and cancel subscription
  - Townhall presentation: Logos Contribute Portal
    - Prepared slides and improved UI for the presentation
  - Maintenance:
    - Logos Press Engine bugfixes related to Podcasts
    - Fixed bugs with Discord bot Python backend’s database connection
    - Farewell to Westphalia copy & CSS updates
  - Setting GitHub team across orgs for review requests
  - Codebase vulnerability audit
  - Website maintenance
  - Releasing translated websites
  - Planning integration of Status proxy wallet prices