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+title: 2025-12 Vac monthly
+tags:
+  - vac-monthly
+date: 2025-12-31
+draft: false
+---
+
+### QA
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Refactored status-go token-gated community tests and queued follow-up cases for coverage gaps.
+- Expanded status-go token-gated tests with new PoC coverage and TC 7128/7129 progress.
+- Advanced nim-libp2p flaky-test cleanup with stabilization PRs and chronicles follow-ups.
+- Drafted Mix and Kademlia test plans for nim-libp2p new-feature coverage.
+- Maintained status-desktop release testing, completing 2.36 support and ongoing retests.
+- Shipped status-desktop Windows E2E fixes and tracked Windows build failures and regressions.
+- Investigated status-desktop Aragon permission creation failures and join-community issues.
+- Closed emoji reactions, local backup, and Qt6 migration activities in status-desktop QA.
+- Progressed mobile QA multi-device support, Appium porting, and Jenkins/BrowserStack CI enablement.
+- Coordinated status-qa mobile release testing and dependency merges for Appium tests.
+- Merged Waku interop maintenance fixes and repo rename updates.
+- Continued status-go maintenance with Simplify SignalClient work and tracked blocker issues.
+
+### DST
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Ran the RLN tree scaling scenario end-to-end on the new branch; benchmarks queued.
+- Published the RLN scaling benchmark report for TWN-supports-RLN-tree scenarios.
+- Investigated lsquic regression latency and flagged an underperforming lab node.
+- Resolved JsWaku lightpush regression by bumping nwaku and documenting outcomes.
+- Refactored pod-api-requester with config-driven endpoints, port overrides, and payload fixes.
+- Compared CNIs and documented Vaclab 2.0 networking proposals and current stack details.
+- Opened the Vaclab 2.0 bandwidth operator PR and published scheduling docs with limitations.
+- Implemented the bandwidth-aware scheduler with validation results and Notion documentation.
+- Completed nwaku v0.37 bandwidth regression experiments and updated analysis reports.
+- Produced the nwaku v0.37 store regression connection-limit impact report.
+- Confirmed JsWaku bootstrapping reconnect propagation within one second after disconnects.
+- Showed go-libp2p succeeds where nimlibp2p fails under evaluated network conditions.
+- Added Prometheus metrics to the go-libp2p test node with aligned Grafana naming.
+- Status-go chat protocol benchmark setup neared completion with runs and data collection queued.
+
+### Nim
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Continued Nimble 1.0 work with operator warning fixes and dependency log cleanup.
+- Delivered Nimble integration fixes for lockfile pollution, case sensitivity, and tag mismatches.
+- Advanced Nimble improvements for lockfile defaults, special versions, and git error reporting.
+- Landed Nimble fixes for package list reading, parser warnings, and bootstrap config paths.
+- Shipped confutils fixes restoring help/version output and unsigned int parsing.
+- Improved confutils parser behavior for debug flags, env var handling, and decoding fixes.
+- Added intops 32-bit support, carry operations, and design docs replacing stint primitives.
+- Progressed intops refactor with merged PRs, nimibook publication, and benchmark research.
+- Added new intops benchmarks and refactor follow-ups ahead of review.
+- Expanded langserver documentation with inlay hint guidance.
+- Diagnosed langserver shutdown failures and opened refined fix PRs.
+- Tracked Nim core fix for closure iterator traceback issues under ORC.
+
+### P2P
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Advanced QUIC stabilization with nat multi-port support, lsquic assembly fixes, and Nimbus integration work.
+- Expanded nim-libp2p C bindings with start/stop/connect APIs, peerInfo, and gossipsub support.
+- Landed gossipsub robustness improvements and stabilized related test coverage.
+- Added Kademlia bindings, lifecycle controls, and interop test improvements for nim-libp2p.
+- Continued QUIC stabilization with concurrent stream closing, lsquic refactors, and Windows build fixes.
+- Advanced IPv6 transport support with CI interop updates and address/transport follow-through.
+- Improved Kademlia lookup and data retrieval behavior in nim-libp2p.
+- Reduced nim-libp2p Docker image size and optimized gossipsub queue limits.
+- Shipped maintenance PRs improving docs, interop cosmetics, and flaky test behavior.
+- Improved nim-lsquic CI and dependency cleanup for Windows builds.
+- Switched to chronos AsyncSemaphore and stabilized nim-libp2p imports.
+- Drafted 2026 Q1 commitments for the P2P roadmap.
+
+### Tokenomics
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Updated price prediction models and incorporated feedback into forecasting functions.
+- Continued Logos digital twin modeling in Machinations with stock-and-flow diagrams.
+- Reviewed digital twin progress and aligned next steps with stakeholders.
+- Initiated realistic transaction demand modeling for stress tests and completed the model.
+- Advanced Karma incentives APY review with Smart Contracts follow-ups.
+- Finalized Betfundme extension design with implementation details.
+- Scheduled service incentive RFC reviews for support work.
+- Held the Q4 retrospective and prepared next-quarter commitments.
+- Updated the Logos token sales spreadsheet and reviewed EcoDev support status.
+- Continued research on virtual worlds and economies to inform unit support.
+
+### SC
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Landed StakeManager and StakeVault maintenance fixes for paused leave handling and migration safeguards.
+- Reviewed audit findings and advanced fixes for vault ownership limits and slasher penalties.
+- Merged audit fixes across StakeManager, StakeVault, and Karma contracts.
+- Opened safeguards and helper views for review, including emergency exit test coverage.
+- Progressed per-user vault limits and Karma stability refinements.
+- Advanced StakeManager helper view functions PR.
+- Removed MP_APY variables and continued MP cleanup across contracts.
+- Strengthened StakeVault migration safeguards and Emergency Exit/Leave logic.
+- Implemented pause signaling and distributor isPaused changes.
+- Fixed Karma overslash protections and claim safety issues.
+- Fixed KarmaAirdrop delegatee validation for first-claim flows.
+- Addressed PoseidonHasher modulo handling and emergency pause signaling updates.
+
+### ACZ
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Updated LSSA v0.3 notes and reviews to align consulting feedback.
+- Finalized Simple AMM updates and reviewed follow-up comments.
+- Added token metadata support for NFTs in LSSA v0.3.
+- Documented native token exploit concerns and mitigation reviews.
+- Drafted non-hardened keys analysis and began lattice-based documentation.
+- Investigated freeze authority behavior and produced review documentation.
+- Prepared a payment streams questions document for LSSA consulting.
+- Cleaned up extended token support documentation for LSSA v0.3.
+- Reviewed freeze-authority documentation and incorporated feedback loops.
+- Supported AMM consulting with burn/mint support updates and PR review.
+
+### RFC
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Kept RFC index maintenance moving with review responses and queue management.
+- Advanced the Waku opChan RFC toward review readiness.
+- Started updates for Waku 34 / WAKU2-PEER-EXCHANGE.
+- Opened Nomos RFC drafts for message encapsulation and payload formatting.
+- Opened Cryptarchia protocol RFC work and started the fork-choice rule draft.
+- Advanced Nomos RFCs for proof-of-quota, blend protocol, and Codex prover updates.
+- Merged block exchange RFC updates and opened follow-up drafts.
+- Drafted new RFCs for proof-of-leadership and total stake inference.
+- Produced the mantle specification draft and opened the RFC index PR.
+- Produced the bootstrap sync draft for Nomos and shared the spec PR.
+- Started RFC website replacement work and completed the Q4 retro.
+- Drafted LIPs definitions and captured follow-up items from calls.
+
+### Security
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Refreshed OS hardening guidance and continued secure signing training with legacy onboarding.
+- Advanced cold signing environments with Qubes OS deployment and offline verification planning.
+- Expanded treasury continuity work with device assignments and signing account revalidation.
+- Ran Status Desktop/Wallet security reviews, npm malware sweeps, CodeQL scans, and SBOM updates.
+- Continued secure signing environment evaluations with AVG/ClamAV testing and cold-signing VM builds.
+- Completed endpoint security detection evaluation with documented conclusions.
+- Completed cold-signing workstation review and documented risks and concerns.
+- Audited Status Desktop/Wallet changes, GitHub permissions, CI dependencies, and secret handling.
+- Tracked incident response with IOC scans, secrets rotations, and dependency cleanups.
+- Advanced remediation tracking for CodeQL findings and security fixes.
+- Improved finance automation with duplicate PO detection and consolidated admin audits.
+- Continued secure signing documentation and annual signing revalidation procedures.
+- Performed proactive Vulma/IR reviews and incident remediation support across teams.
+- Completed broad security code reviews across PRs, CI changes, and dependency updates.
+
+### Web
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Brought Status Network Hub to release with responsive fixes, TVL displays, and staking/Karma updates.
+- Shipped Status Hub post-release fixes including FAQ and promo bar updates.
+- Enabled WETH vault support and debugged TVL on VPN.
+- Added Karma UI updates and investigated Vercel bot protection impacts.
+- Progressed wallet extension price proxy work and LI.FI integration.
+- Improved wallet extension token detail performance with Suspense and TokenSkeleton.
+- Continued Status app Waku upgrade debugging around shard handling.
+- Delivered status.app and status.network SEO improvements.
+- Patched Next.js vulnerabilities across status-web, ps.logos, and keycard sites.
+- Advanced Logos website streams with calendar embeds, metrics fields, and maintenance updates.
+- Pushed contribution portal UI updates and leaderboard backend progress.
+- Continued Community dapp shard fixes and Waku shard changes for Communities.
+- Progressed Spaces Calendar and contributor directory refactors.
+- Maintained press engine and Logos site updates alongside ongoing maintenance tasks.
+
+### Infra
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Completed Fusaka upgrade and recovery work with postmortem and expanded validator monitoring.
+- Increased Geth diversity and resolved Nethermind sync issues for Lido/Nimbus fleets.
+- Rolled out internal site inventory with improved Consul tagging and Watchtower upgrade.
+- Added Linux and Mac M4 Jenkins hosts after Netdata memory debugging.
+- Stabilized Status CI after repo renaming with Windows E2E fixes and nim/waku integration.
+- Ran Status CI with nwaku variants and improved Windows E2E stability diagnostics.
+- Cleaned Nimbus fleet storage issues and fixed sudo configuration.
+- Deployed minutes.meeting.logos.co and Status Network back office with DNS updates.
+- Advanced MEV-Boost metrics and validator performance dashboards for Lido monitoring.
+- Updated Status App Android/iOS signing pipelines and validated builds; continued Nix work.
+- Investigated Hoodi missing proposals and planned layout fleet updates.
+- Enabled waku.sandbox services and deployed the Logos chat node.
+- Cleaned DigitalOcean space after security alert and documented CiviCRM backups.
+- Addressed Windows E2E registry issues and Status mobile signing PRs.
+
+### BI
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Fixed Keycard data transformation in the Comms Discord stats pipeline.
+- Improved Logos Circle dashboard data quality and resolved circle data issues.
+- Researched smart contract data extraction for blockchain analytics workflows.
+- Delivered the Logos website GitHub participation endpoint for reporting.
+- Completed finance dashboard data transformation with Etherscan fixes and Bitcoin extraction.
+- Finished finance dashboard dbt models and started dashboard views for weekly reporting.
+- Updated GitHub extractions and renamed sources to match the new repo organization.
+- Refreshed Comms X analytics extraction and the Status X tags dashboard.
+- Started LLM RAG context updates with vLLM benchmark scripting.
+- Ran early LLM benchmarks across models and tooling for future RAG evaluations.
+
+### Nescience
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Documented privacy-preserving tail-call issues and proposed mitigations for NSSA.
+- Captured private PDA decisions and NSSA cryptographic primitives for Logos alignment.
+- Advanced block-context designs for NSSA programs and voting use cases.
+- Drove testnet readiness with merged LSSA PRs and wallet deployment tooling.
+- Delivered documentation updates and program deployment commands for LSSA.
+- Proposed deposit-based private account creation and a generalized program approach.
+- Advanced testnet readiness with burn/mint updates, wallet/AMM work, and tutorial verification.
+- Merged the tail-call privacy mechanism and progressed sequencer deploy automation.
+- Improved wallet auth and deploy flows alongside LSSA refactors.
+- Merged AMM-wallet integration and quick deploy implementation.
+- Shipped sequencer Docker CI build and CI parallelization improvements.
+- Started CLI and facades unification work under the nice-to-have track.
+- Advanced LSSA consulting with freeze-authority review and payment-stream documentation.