# 2026-01-05 Vac weekly
Vac 2026/01/05 § highlights § BI: Started finance reporting upgrades with crypto price extraction and dashboard updates. BI: Added Circle data sources and prototyped a Telegram connector for monitoring.

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# 2026-01-05 Vac weekly

Jan 05, 2026, 6 min read

- #vac-updates
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## Vac 2026/01/05 §

### highlights §

- BI: Started finance reporting upgrades with crypto price extraction and dashboard updates.
- BI: Added Circle data sources and prototyped a Telegram connector for monitoring.
- BI: Benchmarked OpenAI OSS 20B and prepared evidence.dev reporting.
- DST: Closed chat protocol benchmark follow-up and found mixed contact request delays between light and relay nodes.
- DST: Completed js-waku browser bootstrapping experiment and shipped a merged report PR.
- DST: Added rust-libp2p test node Prometheus metrics and opened the upstream PR.
- DST: Shipped Vaclab 2.0 scheduler and full-stack documentation with new deployment automation.
- Infra: Windows E2E benchmark now runs during nightly status-app builds.
- Infra: Fixed Nix build and libwaku packaging for logos messaging; validated in status-go tests.
- Infra: Documented Gitea backup/restore and tested new Bridge image deployments.
- Nim: Advanced Nimble 1.0.0 work with cache, tagging, and Docker improvements.
- Nim: Landed multiple confutils parser fixes across nim-confutils and Nim PRs.
- Nim: Prepared setup-nimble-action release while tracking pending PRs.
- P2P: Documented common hurdles for nim-libp2p contributors.
- P2P: Removed duplicate license file in nim-libp2p maintenance cleanup.
- P2P: Started research on Gossipsub extensions and partial messages work.
- QA: Expanded Status-go wallet testing with token-gated community cases and new issue tracking.
- QA: Onboarded messaging network-conditions testing for new 2026q1 QA scope.
- QA: Drafted nim-libp2p interop test plans and started Autonatv2 template PR.
- QA: Continued status-go maintenance with SignalClient simplification tests.
- RFC: Drafted Cryptarchia fork choice rule RFC and opened the PR for review.
- RFC: Started wallet technical RFC drafting for Nomos.
- RFC: Progressed rfc-index maintenance by responding to open reviews.
- Sec: Completed year-end security code reviews across IFT, Status, and VAC repositories.
- Sec: Followed up on incidents and validated remediation for late-cycle changes.
- Sec: Cleared CodeQL and Dependabot backlogs and documented Q1 handoff risks.
- TKE: Prepared monthly deliverables report and closed year-end admin wrap-up.
- TKE: Continued Logos digital twin modeling in Machinations.
- TKE: Continued virtual worlds and economies research support.
- Web: Debugged Status Network Hub TVL-on-VPN issue and refined WETH vault flow.
- Web: Implemented PS email form work and reviewed PSF website sign-up flow.
- Web: Continued logos site social-proof follow-up and contribution guideline reviews.
- Web: Delivered maintenance updates across logos.co and Contribute portal APIs.

### vac:bi: §

- `ift-ts:bi:finance:2026q1-finance-reporting-helper:impovement`
  - Extracted crypto prices with the Alchemy API.
  - Updated the finance dashboard.
- `ift-ts:bi:logos:2026q1-logos-circle-monitoring:dashboard-improvement`
  - Added Google Spreadsheet data to Circle reporting.
- `ift-ts:bi:logos:2026q1-logos-circle-monitoring:telegram-monitoring`
  - Built a PoC Telegram connector.
- `ift-ts:bi:logos:2026q1-logos-public-rag:response-evaluation`
  - Benchmarked OpenAI OSS 20B.
  - Prepared results in evidence.dev.
- `misc`
  - Reviewed Postgres logical replication.
  - Attempted to reset the Airbyte test environment; upgrade to a newer Kubernetes-backed version is required.

### vac:dst: §

- `admin/misc`
  - OOO: 6 CC days.
- `vac:dst:status:2025q4-status-evaluation:chat-protocol-benchmarks-followup`
  - Closed the task and prepared the report.
  - Work was delayed; found mixed contact request issues.
    - Messages between light and relay nodes can exceed 1 minute.
- `vac:dst:waku:2025q4-waku-scaling:optimise-browser-bootstrapping`
  - Completed work pending additional feedback.
  - 10ksim#170 merged jswaku experiments.
  - Notion: JsWaku Experiment
- `vac:dst:waku:2025q4-waku-evaluation:nwaku-api-image`
  - In use for jswaku experiments.
  - Needs config and batch-mode design review.
  - pod-api-requester#2 in draft.
- `vac:dst:ift:2025q4-dst-tooling:general-tooling`
  - Added Prometheus metrics for the rust-libp2p test node.
    - Implemented mesh health and peer count metrics with nim/go-compatible names.
    - Data rate and some metrics remain rust-only; still validating parity across nodes.
  - dst-libp2p-test-node#14 opened.
- `vac:dst:ift:2025q4-dst-lab:lab-duplication`
  - vaclab-k8s-plugins#2 merged Vaclab scheduler implementation.
  - Published Vaclab 2.0 full stack documentation with deployment guidance.
    - Notion: Vaclab 2.0 - Full Software Stack
  - vaclab-2#1 created deployment repo with Ansible playbooks and CI/CD via Fleet.

### vac:infra: §

- `status-app`
  - Windows E2E benchmark now runs during nightly builds.
  - Ran a dev environment survey.
  - Discussed ETH-RPC proxy needs for grove/nodefleet.
- `logos messaging nim`
  - Fixed Nix build and added libwaku as a flake package; fixed Waku canary.
  - Switched to Nim from the Nimbus build system for the Nix build.
  - Tested libwaku in status-go tests; waiting on merge PR.
- `misc`
  - Documented Gitea backup/restore procedure.
  - Drafted GitHub comment manager PR to hide previous commit builds after six.
  - Deployed sequencer-runner.
  - Tested a new Bridge image.
- `lido`
  - Commit boost PR.
  - Hoodi missed proposal investigation.

### vac:nim: §

- `ift-ts:nim:ift:2026q1-nimble:nimble-1.0.0`
  - nimble#1551 Refactor tests to preserve pkgcache between runs.
  - nimble#1550 Fix isRoot flag loaded from cache causing wrong root package selection.
  - nimble#1548 Improve local Docker.
  - nimble#1547 Load package version table from cache on startup.
    - Validate reachable packages only in dependency graph checks.
    - Fix case-insensitive package name lookup in SAT solver validation.
  - nimble#1546 Prefer tagged versions over#head and remove maxTaggedVersions.
    - Fix CI.
  - Released `setup-nimble-action`.
- `vac:nim:ift:2025q4-nim-core-libs:command-line-parsers`
  - nim-confutils#141 Fix #10 #11 #12; fix case option.
  - nim-confutils#140 Fix #50; support multiple subcommands in a case branch.
  - nim#25401 Add parseEnum support for triple-quoted and raw string enum values.
  - nimbus-eth2#7826 Use confutils obsolete for deprecated beacon node conf options.
  - nim-confutils#139 Fix #59; allow & in command desc.
  - nim-confutils#138 Fix #60; display default subcommand desc in help message.
  - nim-confutils#136 Fix #62; add obsolete pragma.
  - nim-confutils#135 Fix #74; envVarsPrefix app file name when not set.
  - nim-confutils#134 Fix #87; support env var value list.
- `admin/misc`
  - OOO: 5 CC days.

### vac:p2p: §

- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q4-nimlibp2p-maintenance:maintenance`
  - nim-libp2p#1991 Add common hurdles docs.
  - nim-libp2p#1992 Remove duplicate license file.
- `ift-ts:p2p:ift:2026q1-nimlibp2p-gossipsub-extensions`
  - Started reading through and gathering information.
- `admin/misc`
  - OOO: 5 CC days.

### vac:qa: §

- `admin/misc`
  - OOO: 17 CC days.
- `vac:qa:status:2025q4-status-go-functional-testing:wallet`
  - test: Token gated communities - TC 7128 refactoring.
  - test: Token gated communities - TC 7129 - PoC.
  - Testing with testnets is seemingly open in UI but not really accessible.
- `ift-ts:qa:messaging:2026q1-messaging-testing:network-conditions`
  - Caught up and got familiar with the task.
- `ift-ts:qa:ift:2026q1-nim-libp2p-testing:interop-test-plans`
  - nim-libp2p#1993 Autonatv2 interop test template.
  - Investigated interop tests in libp2p/test-plans.
  - nim-libp2p#1994 Improve development section visibility.
- `vac:qa:status:2025q4-status-go-functional-testing:maintenance`
  - test: simplify SignalClient.

### vac:rfc: §

- `vac:rfc:nomos:2025q4-rfc-iteration:cryptarchia-fork-choice-rule`
  - rfc-index#247 completed first draft.
- `vac:rfc:nomos:2025q4-rfc-iteration:wallet-technical`
  - Started the wallet technical RFC.
- `vac:rfc:ift:2025q4-rfc-index-maintenance:maintenance`
  - Responded to open reviews.

### vac:sec: §

- `admin/misc`
  - OOO: 10 CC days.
- `vac:sec:ift:2025q4-cicd-security-review:year-end-code-reviews`
  - Reviewed year-end PRs across IFT, Status, and VAC with focus on security-critical changes.
  - Performed deep reviews of cryptography, key management, and secret handling paths.
  - Audited serialization, parsing, and validation logic for late-cycle edge cases.
  - Reviewed storage, persistence, and migration changes for unsafe defaults.
    - status-go#7063 ERC20 token metadata.
  - Reviewed dependency update PRs for supply-chain risks.
    - status-go#7127 build dependencies validation.
  - Reviewed CI, GitHub Actions, and release workflows for permission drift and secret exposure.
- `vac:sec:ift:2025q4-vulma-and-ir:year-end-incident-followups`
  - Confirmed incident fixes were deployed and monitored.
  - Re-validated incident patches for regressions.
  - Reviewed Q4 ecosystem incidents for shared risk.
  - Reviewed logs and alerts for late-cycle anomalies.
- `vac:sec:ift:2025q4-vulma-and-ir:cleanup-and-carryover`
  - Re-reviewed CodeQL and Dependabot findings for closure vs carryover.
    - dependabot-alerts#104
    - dependabot-alerts#105
    - dependabot-alerts#107
  - Performed secondary reviews on security, infra, and hotfix PRs.
  - Identified high-risk areas for post-holiday follow-up and documented handoff context.
  - Coordinated with maintainers on merge vs deferral decisions for security-sensitive PRs.

### vac:tke: §

- `admin`
  - Prepared the monthly report of deliverables.
  - OOO: 14 CC days.
- `vac:tke:ift:logos-token:logos-digital-twin`
  - Continued implementing Logos stock and flow diagrams in Machinations.
- `vac:tke:ift:support-to-ift-units:reading-by-jarrad`
  - Continued reading about virtual worlds and economies.

### vac:web: §

- `vac:web:status:2025q4-sn-hub`
  - Debugging TVL on VPN.
- `vac:web:ift:2025q4-psf-website:website`
  - admin-acid#30 reviewed sign-up flow.
  - parallel-society#2 implemented PS email form submission.
- `admin/misc`
  - roadmap#345 opened and ordered GitHub issues.
  - Requested dev-hub.status.network subdomain.
  - admin-acid#30 reviewed email template and PS email form changes.
  - OOO: 14 CC days.
- `vac:web:ift:2025q4-maintenance:maintenance`
  - admin-acid#30 implemented email template and PS email form.
  - logos#18 updated API endpoint for logos.co.
  - contribute.logos.co#14 updated API endpoint for the Contribute portal.
  - community-dapp#120 fixed abort error and stored data length for Communities.
- `vac:web:ift:2025q4-logos-website:social-proof`
  - Followed up on Circles data source of truth with data-docs#137.
- `vac:web:status:2025q4-sn-hub:deposit`
  - status-web#921 added available ETH to WETH vault.
- `vac:web:ift:2025q4-logos-contributions-portal:contribution-guidelines`
  - contribute.logos.co#31 reviewed contribution guidelines translation.
- `vac:web:status:2025q4-status-wallet-extension`
  - status-web#697 integrated LI.FI provider; fixed swap tx not added to mempool.