# 2025-08-18 Vac weekly
Vac 2025/08/18 § highlights § QA: Progressed on Status Backend with accounts service tests (Phase 1) and framework improvements (schema validation refactor).

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# 2025-08-18 Vac weekly

Aug 18, 2025, 7 min read

- #vac-updates

## Vac 2025/08/18 §

### highlights §

- QA: Progressed on Status Backend with accounts service tests (Phase 1) and framework improvements (schema validation refactor).
- QA: Continued Status Desktop release testing and introduced app load time tracking tests.
- QA: Completed GossipSub performance PR merges and advanced Yamux testing.
- QA: Expanded Waku interop REST API coverage with admin endpoint tests.
- DST: Discovered a bug in Grafana thanks to Infra team
- SC: Participated in another security audit contest
- RFC Most of planned Nomos RFCs got the green light and will be merged this week after a sanity check.

### vac:p2p: §

- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q3-nimlibp2p-mix:mix-core`
  - vacp2p/mix#73 feat: create surbs
    - Continue work on SURBs
    - Focus this week was on sender side flow (entry)
    - Exit SIDE flow WIP
- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q3-nimlibp2p-kad-dht:bootstraping-and-lookup`
  - vacp2p/nim-libp2p#1624 feat(kad-dht): findPeer
  - initial kad-dht followup near completion
- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-universal-connectivity-app`
  - UI
    - Handle peers leaving and joining
    - text fields scrolling
    - text fields focusing
    - receiving messages
    - Ctrl+C handling (leave terminal untouched afterwards)
  - File exchange
    - send files
    - receive files
  - Fix key verification logic nim-libp2p#1618
- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q2-nimlibp2p-kad-dht:data-storage`
  - putval pr merged, subject to the created follow-up
  - putval followup dht tyes refactor merged?
  - dht followup exception refinement almost merged
  - merged key-refactor to not track hash-state
    - dependency-inject hash-impl in “private” api to make this change testable
    - this was following a discussion about the where the decision responsibility for hash-impl lies
- `vac:p2p:ift:2025q3-nimlibp2p-maintenance:maintenance`
  - vacp2p/nim-libp2p#1615 fix: don’t check for errors as `close()` will only contain futures that raise `[]`
  - vacp2p/nim-libp2p#1616 fix: compilation warning on yamux due to using `CatchableErr`
  - investigated and fixing quic race condition when reading
    - fix: race condition when reading and receiving eof nim-quic#91
    - fix(framesorter): send eof always nim-quic#94
    - chore(perf): follow up for PR#1600 nim-libp2p#1620
    - solution is not complete; started refactoring quic states in attempt to simplify logic
  - fix(quic): race errors when stopping transport nim-libp2p#1614
  - submitted spec clarification pr
- `misc/admin`
  - 2 cc 1d OoO

### vac:tke: §

- `admin`
  - 5 CC days off
- `vac:tke:nomos:stress-test::review-blockspace`
  - reviewed Marcin’s Cryptoeconomics of Nomos
  - reviewed the Preliminary Research on block limits
  - Join meeting with Thomas, Frederico and Marcin
  - Implement discussed improvements on blockspace and DA docs (v3)
- `vac:tke:nomos:stress-test::review-nomos-da`
  - adapted the NomosDA proposal to include a market for permanent storage
- `vac:tke:status:karma-incentives::karma-tiers`
  - finalized reviewing the whole work
- `vac:tke:ift:logos-token::logos-strategy`
  - read other docs about Logos
  - studied Martin’s dashboard
  - read about L1/L2 rollup partnerships
  - reviewed incentivized ecosystems
- `vac:tke:ift:logos-token:unified-model`
  - Keep working on ecosystem doc, exploring hybrid approaches and next steps described there
- `vac:tke:status:cf`
  - Finish some light simulations for CF
- `vac:tke:ift:tokenomics-research-forum::control`
  - Keep pushing reserch on Control Problem
- `vac:tke:ift:logos-token::logos-strategy`
  - Read Logos docs

### vac:qa: §

- `status:2025q3-status-go-functional-testing:critical-flows`
  - test_: accounts service tests P1
- `status:2025q3-status-go-functional-testing:framework-improvements`
  - test_: remove schema validation and added other checks
- `waku:2025q3-interop-testing:REST-APIs-Extended`
  - PR #134 — adds log-level tests and edge cases
  - PR #133 merged
  - Issues opened: #3542, #3541
  - Issue under review: raising debug level not reflected; lower logs still appear
- `waku:2025q3-interop-testing:rendezvous-peer-discovery`
  - Used Simon’s example; paused to focus on REST API tasks
- `vac:2025q3-nim-libp2p-testing:gossipsub-performance`
  - test(gossipsub): Performance tests - docker stats - merged
  - test(gossipsub): Performance tests - plot docker stats - merged
  - test(gossipsub): Performance tests - plot latency history - merged
  - test(performance): fetch before push and improve latency history - merged
- `vac:2025q3-nim-libp2p-testing:yamux`
  - test(yamux): Add header unit tests - in review
- `status:2025q3-status-qa-desktop:app-load-time`
  - PR 18592 — started wallet loading time tests
- `status:2025q3-status-qa-desktop:release-testing`
  - Committed changes to PR 18532 (blocked by issues)
  - Tested new nwaku build
  - Opened Issue 18555 and follow-up
  - Tested PR 18539
  - Tested 2.35 RC2
  - Tested PR 18558
  - Opened Issue 18569
  - Investigated crash on adding without account to total balance
- `status:2025q3-status-qa-mobile:framework-adjustments`
  - Submitted PR of initial framework for review after feedback
- `status:2025q3-status-qa-documentation:requirements-framework`
  - Started basic data model for headless CMS
- `admin/misc`
  - OOO: 8 cc Days
  - Reviewed candidates in the pipeline
  - Interview with one candidate

### vac:dst: §

- `admin/misc`
  - 1 CC OOO Thursday 14th and Friday 15th
  - Created lab usage information notion page
  - Published research blog on GossipSub improvements comparison
  - Looked into Probelab collaboration document
  - Call with Infra for debugging Grafana issue. Found a bug. Pending to create Issue in grafana repo.
- `vac:dst:vac:2025q3-libp2p-evaluation:regression-testing`
  - Work in lab issues
- `vac:dst:ift:2025q3-dst-tooling:python-uv`
  - Changed requirements for uv
  - Removed unused functionalities
  - Github PR: In review
- `vac:dst:waku:2025q3-dst-tooling:improve-tooling`
  - Improved special character replacement when doing queries
    - Github PR: Better query parsing
  - Update getenr version to support quering different services
    - Github PR: Update getenr
  - Add debug mode for store_msg_retriever (still in review)
    - Github PR
  - Workdir experiments track
  - Events log (merged)
    - Github PR
- `vac:dst:ift:2025q3-dst-tooling:deployment-updates`
  - Organize repo (merged)
    - Github PR
- `vac:dst:waku:2025q3-waku-evaluation:js-waku`
  - Upgraded `getEnr.tpl` and `getAddress.tpl` so it can be used to generate k8s deployment template for jswaku
  - jswaku nodes aren’t seeing other nodes (wip)
- `vac:dst:ift:2025q3-dst-tooling:shadow-integration-scaffold`
  - worked with nimlibp2p deployments, played around with deployment yaml files, deployment scripts
  - Used K9s and kubeconfig to lookinto/access running pods/behavior

### vac:sc: §

- `vac:sc:ift:2025q3-fv-tools-research`
  - started applying Kontrol to out staking repo
- `vac:sc:status:2025q3-maintaining-status-contracts`
  - Finalized PR 240
  - Researched new migration stategy for StakeVault
    - Using new initializer and updating factory: https://github.com/vacp2p/staking-reward-streamer/pull/243
  - Found possible code redundancy in StakeManager
- `ift:2025q3-security-audits`
  - Audited Malda protocol (contest)
  - Reviewed confirmed submittions from pike-tapio contest
- `ift:2025q3-sc-learnup-sessions`
  - More lending protocol research for learnup session

### vac:acz: §

- `ift:2025q3-zerokit:zerokit-maintaining`
  - Reviewed external PR for Contribution guide
- `ift:2025q3-de-mls-tesnet:consensus-layer`
  - Working on consensus testing and code quality PR
- `ift:2025q3-zerokit:pmtree-config-builder`
  - Improved the PmTreeConfig initialization process using the builder pattern PR.
- `ift:2025q3-rln-status-l2:maintaining`
  - Created this issue issue for unimplemented user registration feature.
  - Extended timeout to prevent panic and separated the Anvil feature for the prover service’s testcase PR.
  - Added a CI workflow and resolved Clippy warnings for the prover service PR.
  - Updated dependency versions and reduced the build size for the prover PR.
  - Clippy cleanups - merged
  - Zeroize secret key - merged
- `ift:2025q3-rln-status-l2:sc-testing`
  - Reviewed PR - merged
  - Reviewed PR 2
  - Addressed PR review feedback and merged this PR (completed task).
- `ift:2025q2-zerokit:zerokit-maintaining`
  - Explore Rust + ffi (expecting to improve Zerokit ffi bindings)
    - https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/ffi.html
      - https://rust-unofficial.github.io/patterns/patterns/ffi/intro.html
    - https://www.ralphminderhoud.com/blog/rust-ffi-wrong-way/
  - Create repository rust_ffi_examples
- `ift:2025q3-de-mls-tesnet:multi-steward-rfc`
  - adressed PR feedbacks from rfc team
  - read the blog post on MLS and think on how we mitigate this centralization.
- `ift:2025q3-rln-status-l2:rln-spec-maintain`
  - Think on how we can add decentralized slashing feature on our arhitecture.
- `nes:2025q3-nescience-consulting:key-protocol-spec`
  - Reviewed specs document
- `nes:2025q3-nescience-consulting:nomos-deep-dive`
  - Reviewed document
- `admin/misc`
  - 1 cc is ooo for 1 day (bank holiday)
  - 1 cc is ooo for 3 days (sick leave)

### vac:rfc: §

- `vac:rfc:waku:2025q3-rfc-iteration:qaku`
  - Continued work on qaku rfc, should have first draft next week - https://github.com/waku-org/specs/pull/77
  - Started to review the OPchan repo
- `vac:rfc:waku:2025q3-rfc-iteration`
  - Created list for next Waku RFC updates confirmed with Hanno: 21/WAKU2-FAULT-TOLERANT-STORE, 34/WAKU2-PEER-EXCHANGE, WAKU2-NOISE-SESSIONS, WAKU2-NOISE
- `admin/misc`
  - Reviewed ETH-MLS-OFFCHAIN RFC pr - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/166
- `vac:rfc:nomos:2025q3-rfc-iteration:da-network`
  - Finished up and received review; will work on the latest comment (close to merge) - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/160.
- `vac:rfc:nomos:2025q3-rfc-iteration:p2p-network`
  - Reworked and received review: can be merged (with a small enhancement that doesn’t stop merge) - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/169
- `vac:rfc:nomos:2025q3-rfc-iteration:da-encoding`
  - Finished and recieved review: can be merged - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/156
- `vac:rfc:nomos:2025q3-rfc-iteration:hardware-requirements`
  - Finished and received review: can be merged once the surplus stuff is deleted - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/172
- `vac:rfc:nomos:2025q3-rfc-iteration:sdp`
  - Received feedack and can be merged: https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/157
- `vac:rfc:codex:2025q3-rfc-iteration`
  - Started checking https://github.com/codex-storage/codex-docs-obsidian/tree/main/10%20Notes and https://hackmd.io/team/codex-storage?nav=overview according to the plans of Codex team.

### vac:sec: §

- `ift:2025q3-cicd-security-review:status-design-reviews`
  - Triaged vulnerabilities and performed security testing as part of Status security review (issue#692)
  - Mapped CI/CD trust boundaries across top-5 components and linked findings w/ Dependabot/CodeQL
- `ift:2025q3-vulma-and-ir:incidents`
  - Conducted interviews and gathered artifacts for SNT phishing case
- `ift:2025q3-finance-automation`
  - Mass PO improvements
    - Ran different scenarios (http call from Iplicit) & identified 2 options
- `ift:2025q3-iam-operations:remove-unnecessary-users`
  - Tested workflow for verifying inactive users in Notion
  - Tested workflow for verifying inactive users in Google
- `ift:2025q3-security-automation`
  - Continued development for workflow for web3 security alerts

### vac:nes: §

- `vac:nes:2025q3:state-separation-architecture-poc:specs`

  - Polished the sequencer specs document and added signatures and KDF.
  - Implemented an Shake256 cipherstream using R0.
  - Implemented an Shake256 cipherstream with 33 bytes using R0.
  - Added pseudocode doc for the sequencer specs.

- `state-separation-architecture-poc:wallet`

  - Worked on PR 101 for wallet CLI expansion.
  - Finished PR 102 on structural improvements.
  - Read through Concrete key protocol specifications.
  - Started key protocol update(public part). PR 104

- `vac:nes:2025q3:state-separation-architecture-poc:specs-impl`

  - Finished public part of NSSA v0.1 in the testnet (PR).
  - Start implementing privacy-preserving part of NSSA v0.1 specs in the testnet (draft).

### vac:nim: §

- `ift:2025q3-nimble`
- Bumps 0.99.0 (https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1448)
- local default (https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1446)
  - WIP local default
  - Fixes local deps tests
  - Adds `-g` to test
  - Fixes CI
  - Removes unused module
  - When there is no nimble file in the current directory, the default is global
  - Fixes CI
- Adds a dockerfile to locally debug the CI (https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1445)
- Normalization (https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1443)
  - Revert “Removes normalizedRequirements lookup table”
  - Reenables last test
  - Replaces direct comparisons with `cmpIgnoreCase`
- Road to Nimble 1.0.0 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/issues/1449
- `nim-cbor-serialization` (https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-cbor-serialization/pull/1) - Cbor encoders - tests