roadmap/content/weeklies/2024-12-09.md

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Vac 2024/12/09

vac:p2p:

• ift:gossipsub-perf-improvements
  • Worked on staggered message sending article. Only results and discussion section is left. Need one more day to finalize it.
  • Participated in libp2p specs meeting. The participants seemed convinced and willing for further discussions in broader community.
    • Still need to decide versioning mechanism (Created an issue on libp2p specs repo)
• vac:libp2p-mix-consulting
  • Assist in compilation issues,
  • Brainstorm possible solutions to using mix as a custom transport
  • Create custom transport PoC:
    • Developed using go-libp2p for faster iteration (due to lack of experience in nim-libp2p at the moment)
    • Demonstrates how to create a transport that uses a libp2p protocol for communication
• vac:de-mls-consulting
  • Troubleshoot why messages were not being broadcasted succesfully and suggest changes in how pubsub topics are used
  • Create custom branch of waku-rust-bindings and go-waku that hardcoded a cluster-id. The current waku-rust-bindings are outdated (using go-waku) so once they're updated with nwaku it is necesary to revisit the code
• ift:nimlibp2p-maintenance
  • PR to enforce conventional commits specs format for PR titles and commit messages

vac:tke:

• admin
  • 1 CC day OOO
  • 2 CC days on sick leave
  • 2 days @ Emergence.xyz conference
• vac:tke:nomos:intro-base-layer-economy:tx-fees
  • to implement the tracking of two TFM under the same demand
  • Discussed tx fees simulations and models with Frederico
• vac:tke:nomos:intro-base-layer-economy:mixnet
  • caught up with the outcomes of the Nomos offsite
  • discussed with Nomos team the current design
• vac:tke:codex:v1-supply-tokenomics:token-dynamics
  • introduced the codex protocol and interactions with the amm
• vac:tke:status:aura-incentives:xp-program
  • looking into products of potential partners for native DEX and other infrastructure
  • feedback on the website MVP
• vac:tke:ift:tokenomics-research-forum:ve3
  • revisiting and polishing the ve(3,3) blogpost
• vac:tke:ift:catsfishing-mvp::monetary-policy
  • Finished first draft of the white paper
• vac:tke:ift:tokenomics-research-forum:ve3
  • started reviewing the ve(3,3) blogpost

vac:dst:

• admin/misc
  • 1 CC whole week
  • Friday 1 CC OOO
• vac:dst:waku:waku-scaling:waku-shard-reliability-vs-scale
  • Worked on shard+store+filter+lightpush simulations structure
• waku:waku-evaluation:regression-testing
  • Meeting with Waku team regarding block issue
    • Plan to retry and document more simulations regarding this issue

vac:qa:

• vac:qa:2024q4-waku:interop-testing:maintenace
  • Metric updates
  • Investigated RLN failures
• waku:2024q4-status-go-functional-testing:migrate-to-status-backend
  • Merged one-to-one-messages
  • New PR for contact-requests
• nomos:2024q4-da-testing:data-integrity-tests
  • Test run1 for Nomos/Da - in progress
  • chore: Data availability and integrity tests PR - 929 paused - will be added on top of PR 936
• nomos:2024q4-da-testing:outline-distributed-test-framework
  • chore: Small scale cluster tests PR 936 - in progress
• waku:2024q4-interop-testing:ci-integration
  • Make PR 3193 in nwaku repo and add smoke_tests job to the CI yml file
  • Run multiple jobs in nwaku repo with changes in CI configurations to stablize smoke_tests job
  • Add 2 yml files for smoke_test job and make PR 90 ready for review
  • Fix review points on PR 90
• waku:2024q4-interop-testing-2024q4:faster-runners
  • Follow up with Infra team and run jobs to solve issues in new runner
  • Work on link job docker files to containers to solve issues in removing job files
• admin-misc
  • Q4 Retro preparation

vac:acz:

• ift:de-mls-testnet:testnet-api
  • Fixed wrong usage of waku with Richard, update code regarding this issue Drat PR
• ift:libp2p-mix-poc:sim-anon-ping
  • Achieved major milestone: Mix Transport now functions end-to-end, enabling anonymous communication within the libp2p framework (PR #11).
  • Mix transport refactor
    • Introduced MixExitConnection for handling unwrapped messages at exit nodes.
    • Bypassed multistream negotiation by implementing appropriate dial functions.
    • Refactored sendThroughMixnet and acceptWithMixnet to align with the overall changes.
    • Implemented agnostic end protocol handling via a callback in MixExitConnection.
  • Created and tested NoRespPing protocol, demonstrating end-to-end functionality.
• ift:logos-zk-calls:logos-zk-call-2
  • Lead the IFT ZK Research call by presenting slides on the Sumcheck Protocol.
  • Post a forum post on Sumcheck protocol encouraging further discussion.
• vac:acz:ift:think-tank:zk-think-tank
  • Update ZK Think tank page to include descriptions for each project.
• vac:acz:ift:think-tank:zk-consulting-codex-1
  • Prepare a document briefly explaining Plonky2/3 and Telos' Plonky2 Goldibear. Additionally, prepare a document on small fields (Goldilocks, Babybear and Mersenne31).
• ift:zerokit-v0-6:circom-witness-rs
  • Partially studied the advanced witness calculator in the context of replacing the old one used in zerokit in order to implement the first feature of the issue.
• ift:de-mls-testnet:de-mls-rfc
  • Discuss with the Rabbit about the gas cost report and obtain a miscalculations by encoding.
• admin/misc
  • 1 cc is ooo was for 1 day
  • 1 cc offboarding preparation
  • Fixed CI issue with building rln-wasm: PR

vac:sc:

• vac:sc:status:xp-token-v1:token-implementation
  • started working on real-time XP calculation on the Staking contract
• vac:sc:status:staking-protocol-v1:documentation
  • Researched on Reward Index (Scalable Reward Distribution)
  • WIP: Document Reward Index docs(ScalableRewardDistribution): WIP Specification of the Scalable Reward Distribution
  • Wrote overview chapter for the docs
    • https://github.com/vacp2p/staking-reward-streamer/pull/94
• vac:sc:status:staking-protocol-v1:testing
  • feat(RewardsStreamerMP.t.sol): Make tests use calc functions and test… by 3esmit · Pull Request #83 · vacp2p/staking-reward-streamer · GitHub
  • Fixed smaller issues
    • make maxMP test stronger
      • https://github.com/vacp2p/staking-reward-streamer/pull/90
    • Remove unnecesary storage writes
      • https://github.com/vacp2p/staking-reward-streamer/pull/91
• vac:sc:status:staking-protocol-v1:merging-existing-solutions
  • implemented deployment script for stake manager https://github.com/vacp2p/staking-reward-streamer/pull/89
  • Improved precision loss by making muse of mulDiv
    • https://github.com/vacp2p/staking-reward-streamer/pull/92
• vac:sc:status:staking-protocol-v1:formal-verification
  • Formally verified that MP/XP only decrease when unstaking
    • https://github.com/vacp2p/staking-reward-streamer/pull/93
• vac:sc:ift:eip-discussions_2024q4
  • Prepared presentation about EVM deep dive and presented to team
    • Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19o7ENS5tzv7EPqWJeejgRC8Q6qVL1SV1Cz3TR-8lp90/edit#slide=id.g157ea0519b8_0_104

vac:nim:

• ift:nim_ide_tooling_2024q4
  • Review community PRs
• ift:nimble_2024q4
  • Improves formular (fixes various issues, completes SAT enumerate) #1297 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1297
  • better nim selection #1298 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1298
    • nimble install nimble works again in posix. Adds SAT test #1299 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1299
  • Makes nimble compile with nim 1.6 #1300 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1300
  • Fixes CI: Update binaries macos #1301 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1301
    • Update binaries to produce macos x86 #1302 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1302
    • Review community prs

vac:rfc:

• ift:rfc:waku:updates-of-mature-waku-rfcs-2024q4
  • Worked on 15/WAKU-BRIDGE, ready for feedback - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/113
  • Started update for 13/WAKU2-STORE and 14/WAKU2-MESSAGE
• ift:rfc:vac:rfc-culture-establishment-2024q4
  • Touchbase with Waku team (together with Jimmy) - talked with Hanno, everything is on point so far.
  • Review https://www.notion.so/Improve-RFC-Culture-Ideas-5abfd49d7b604e9594bdf534408472ca : this is already in progress, we are continuing to pick mature Waku RFCs as time goes.
  • Continued researching how FURPS can implement RFC within the process.
• ift:rfc:vac:rfc-index-maintenance-2024q4
  • There was an issue with a new raw RFC Hanno merged - it didn't appear on rfc-index. Investigated the issue, and found out it was due to a Docusaurus update, a new build should fix it.
• ift:rfc:status:status-specs-to-rfc-index-migration
  • Asked Hanno to take a round of reviews as well.

vac:nes:

• vac:state-separation-architecture-poc:testnet-support
  • Worked on Poseidon vs. sepc256k1 compatibility + document.
  • Worked on proof aggregation issue.
  • Worked on creating generators and create the constant doc.
  • Worked on the privacy flag doc containts sync mechanism for the UTXO has false privacy flag.
  • Investigated potential nullifier issue in NSSA, and prepared document explaining a solution using epoches.
  • Wrote a brief document on aggregation.