ethcatherders/PM

Champion wanted: BLAKE2b precompile

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bmann commented

From ACD 60, looking for a champion for Blake2b precompile

bmann commented

@Souptacular is going to talk to @zooko about participating in this

gitcoinbot commented

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lrettig commented

I'd be curious to hear from a professional how long this might take, how much work it might be, and what sort of budget might be needed. Happy to reach out to a few folks.

bmann commented

It’s going to be work from now until October keeping on top of shepherding this forward. Call that 10 hours per week.

Plus writing code, test cases, speed tests, and assisting different clients in implementation.

And could be done as a precompile or as speeding up VM implementations. Speeding up VM implementations / adjusting gas costs is a bigger chunk of work but has larger pay off.

In either case, call it one full time technical human plus average 10 hours per week on communications.

For 4 - 5 months. So, $12.5K per month, $62.5K

Yes, this might take less than full time, so call this the upper bound.

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lrettig commented

Thanks Boris, this is helpful and seems reasonable. Very grateful to Gitcoin for initial funding here - we are now 0.5% of the way towards the goal :)

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gitcoinbot commented

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Jwdev-wr commented

I can do it. I'd need a week to get caught up to speed.

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Issue Status: 1. Open 2. Started 3. Submitted 4. Done

Work has been started.

These users each claimed they can complete the work by 1 week ago.
Please review their action plans below:

1) whiterabot17 has applied to start work (Funders only: approve worker | reject worker).

Step 1. Review criteria
Step 2. Communicate with developers on project about requirements.
Step 3. Review similar hash algorithm precompile code
Step 4. Code/Test
Step 5. Repeat steps 1-4.
2) madeoftin has been approved to start work.

The due date for Istanbul was last week so I reformatted and submitted the EIP. ethereum/EIPs#2024
Carterpy has also joined me on development.

I can do the majority of the legwork in shepherding the EIP through the EIP process as well as be the point of contact for developers and the community.

The next steps are too:

  • Re-implement the existing code
  • Respond to the CoreDev feedback on design choices
  • Finalize the specification
  • Bench-marking gas costs
  • Second Client implementation
  • Testing

I will continue to keep this moving forward until this EIP makes it into a Hardfork. There is still a chance it can make it into Istanbul as there is two months before the soft-deadline for client implementations.
3) srcoughlin has applied to start work (Funders only: approve worker | reject worker).

I've followed the discussion on this in core devs meeting #62 and think I can champion this along. It's going to need detailed performance metrics as the recently optimized EVM implementation already reduces the gas savings potential over when EIP 152 was originally created. This may also require consideration of heterogeneous computing optimizations.
This project can also act as a template for gas cost estimations and precompile savings estimations for other cryptographic hash functions.
4) mhluongo has applied to start work (Funders only: approve worker | reject worker).

We're working through the F precompile EIP (ethereum/EIPs#2129) as well as the get implementation (keep-network/go-ethereum#4)
5) prorokeskobar has applied to start work (Funders only: approve worker | reject worker).

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mkosowsk commented

Is this still open @bmann @ceresstation?

I would love to throw my hat in the ring, I think I could write up an Action Plan that is quite compelling and deliver on it as well ☺️

Jwdev-wr commented

@mkosowsk Fill out the gitcoin form

MadeofTin commented

@mkosowsk Me and @carterpy have been working on this. Are you interested in Coding for it? The next step is working on reference implementations.

MadeofTin commented

@WhiteRaBot17 would be good to coordinate as well. Where is a good place to reach out?

Here is the current EIP proposal ethereum/EIPs#2024

There is a lot of good information in the references sections, as well has a handful of questions from the Coredevs to respond too. That is a good place to start catching up.

spm32 commented

Glad to see you all coordinating here. @MadeofTin @mkosowsk @carterpy @WhiteRaBot17 if you're all okay with working together on this and splitting the bounty we're happy to support that.

mkosowsk commented

@MadeofTin thanks for the warm welcome :)

At this time, I think I will be coding on a different project(s) but let's keep in touch!

I will be watching this one closely :)

MadeofTin commented

No problem @mkosowsk :)

@WhiteRaBot17 let me know how best to reach you. I left a message on Gitter for you

Jwdev-wr commented

@MadeofTin @ceresstation I'd be happy to collaborate with others to push this through. Contacting @MadeofTin on gitter now.

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mhluongo commented

Folks, @pdyraga and I (with support from the Keep team) can champion this. We're in touch with @MadeofTin as well as @str4d and @zookozcash on the Zcash side. We're focused on an updated F EIP and geth implementation, first, then implementing @MadeofTin 's open EIP that's specific to blake2b.

There are some open questions around the interface in the latter, and we know an F precompile will suffice for most use cases- thus the strategy.

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Issue Status: 1. Open 2. Started 3. Submitted 4. Done

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  1. @madeoftin

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Issue Status: 1. Open 2. Started 3. Submitted 4. Done

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