2025-03-31 Waku Weekly

Scale up number of Communities §

• DoS protection for req-res protocols and metrics (go-waku as service node)
  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] DOS protection and metrics are ready and delivered with v0.33.0 release
    • [nwaku] https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/3060
      • Measure cross performance of req-res protocols in specific usage conditions.
      • https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3299
        • Measurement with different load in a well-defined environment is done!
  • next: [nwaku] Document results

Deploy RLN onchain tree on L2 Testnet §

• Implement RLN smart contract for paid, multilevel memberships

  • achieved: [research] verified deploying new RLN contract via foundry cast commands in a bash script
  • next: [research] find a way to store credentials in keystore in usable format for nwaku-compose (probably implement in nwaku repo)

• RLNv2 Web management interface

  • next: [js-waku] develop RLNv2 membership registration flow

Nwaku in Status Desktop (relay mode) §

• Nwaku in Status Desktop
  • achieved: [nwaku] create draft PR integrating nwaku in status-go and started testing and debugging it with latest status-desktop

Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC
  • next: [research] integrate eligibility fields into Lightpush data structures; write a README for the POC in the feature branch

Hardening and scaling foundations for private chats §

• Private chat rate limit PoC
  • achieved: [chat] kv store in status-go and handle rate limit state updates
  • next: [chat] desktop UI for rate limit

Upgrade Waku for the Web §

• Scalable Data Sync in browser
  • next:
    • [js-waku] create participant state data structures
    • [js-waku] process all messages synchronously

Formalize and Expand Waku Web Apps §

• Reliable Qaku & library
  • achieved:
    • [chat] Switched Qaku and Qaku Cache to cluster 42
    • [chat] Migrated Qaku Cache to waku-go-bindings
  • next: [chat] continue with Qaku

Explore Peer Discovery Gap §

• Mixnet PoC
  • achieved: [research] merged raw mix-waku spec, some bug fixes to be able to run nodes with mix in waku-simulator
  • next: [research] debug nim compilation issue and run simulations using waku-simulator
• Waku Sync
  • achieved: [research] minor bug fixes https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3332 & https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3337

Debugging Tools §

• Status Local Metrics
  • achieved: [chat] refactor and update bandwidth metrics

Messaging API §

• Define Messaging API

  • next: [js-waku] improvements and address review comments

• Messaging API: js-waku

  • next:
    • [js-waku] event based Filter SDK dogfooding
    • [js-waku] Encoder/Decoder API revamp

Maintenance H1 2025 §

• achieved: [chat] Some post-hackathon cleanup of WhisperBox code
• next:
  • [js-waku] js-waku interoperability flakiness investigation
  • [nwaku] REST-API enhancements - under review:
    • https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3333
    • https://github.com/waku-org/waku-rest-api/pull/18
    • https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3331