2025-02-17 Waku Weekly

Direct Message Reliability §

• Reliability Protocol for Resource-Restricted Clients
  • achieved: [research] new specification for p2p reliability open for review
  • next:
    • [research] review and merge p2p reliability spec
    • [nwaku] nwaku implementation of the new lightpush protocol version https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2722
      • lightpush v2
      • enhance error propagation

End-to-end reliability protocol §

• End-to-end reliability protocol - Status integration
  • achieved: [research] started experimenting with status-go integration
  • next: [research] continue status-go integration, collaboration with js-waku

Scale up number of Communities §

• DoS protection for req-res protocols and metrics (go-waku as service node)
  • next:
    • [nwaku] Measure impact between protocols
      • Measure cross performance of req-res protocols in specific usage conditions.
      • non-relay protocols cross performance measure metrics

Nwaku in Status Desktop (relay mode) §

• Nwaku on Windows

  • next:
    • [nwaku] CI Integration of windows build system

• Nwaku in Status Desktop

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] libwaku store request parsing
    • [nwaku] support parallel libwaku requests
    • [nwaku] hash to bytes conversion and increase channel size
    • [nwaku] add makefile targets
    • [nwaku] Improving private branches for status-desktop and status-go with nwaku, and getting status-desktop to run properly with nwaku as a backend in Mac

Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC
  • achieved: [research] started work on local client-side reputation for the POC
  • next: [research] continue work on local client-side reputation for the POC

Deploy RLN onchain tree on L2 Testnet §

• Implement RLN smart contract for paid, multilevel memberships

  • achieved: [research] Draft PR for contract address changes in nwaku
  • next: [research] update RLN contract tests in nwaku

• Testnet L2 with on-chain tree

  • next: [nwaku] deprecate tree sync strategy

• RLNv2 Web management interface

  • achieved: [js-waku] moved js-rln library to main monorepo
  • next: [js-waku] migrate to RLNv2 contract

Hardening and scaling foundations for private chats §

• Specify private chat protocol
  • achieved: [chat] content topics usage in one-to-one chats ref
  • next: [chat] continue documenting current chat protocol

Upgrade Waku for the Web §

• Scalable Data Sync in browser
  • next:
    • [js-waku] implement logic for tracking sent messages
    • [js-waku] implement logic for tracking received messages
    • [js-waku] support converting bloom filter between bytes and arrays of bigint

Formalize and Expand Waku Web Apps §

• Reliable Qaku & library
  • achieved: [chat] FURPS planning
  • next: [chat] start extracting the Quaku library code

Explore Peer Discovery Gap §

• Mixnet PoC
  • achieved: [research] a basic lightpush request only POC by using waku nodes as mix nodes with hardcoded configs
  • next: [research] draft waku mix spec

Debugging Tools §

• Status Local Metrics
  • achieved:
    • [chat] review and discuss the telemetry replacement PR
    • [chat] continue metrics design
  • next: [chat] get pending metrics PRs merged

Messaging API §

• Define Messaging API

  • next: [js-waku] publish rfc covering event based API and basic capabilities

• Messaging API: js-waku

  • next: [js-waku] enable background retries and upgrade to light push v2

Maintenance H1 2025 §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] better proof handling in REST
  • [nwaku] add waku-rlnv2-contract as vendor dependency
• next:
  • [nwaku] enhance metrics usage
  • [nwaku] Prepare release v0.35
  • [nwaku] js-waku - nwaku interoperability test stabilization
  • [js-waku] js-waku interoperability investigations