2025-11-17 Waku Weekly

Introduce E2E Reliability in Status Communities §

• [Deliverable] SDS protocol in Status - basic integration
  • achieved: [nwaku] Managed to have green all CI in integrate nim-sds PR. This PR only contains nix and Makefile adaptations to add sds as dependency in status-go. Not merged yet.

Improve DevEx: API, TWN, Metrics, Docs §

• [Deliverable] Introduce Waku API in the Browser

  • next:
    • [js-waku] define Send API spec
    • [js-waku] implement Send API
    • [js-waku] define Health API

• [Deliverable] Waku as a Signal Network (WebRTC) PoC

  • next: [js-waku] implement WebRTC signaling API
    • [js-waku] define WebRTC signaling spec

• [Deliverable] Introduce Waku API in nwaku

  • next:
    • [nwaku] Implement Health API
    • [nwaku] Send API

Harden RLN Testnet Deployment §

• Zerokit is used in the Browser for Credentials Management
  • next: [js-waku] document rln.waku.org for consumers

Maintenance §

• next:
  • [nwaku] WSS handler socket leak
  • [nwaku] Complete release v0.37.0
  • [nwaku] Review Miden’s waku-rust-bindings needs
  • [nwaku] Adopt new zerokit ffi
  • [nwaku] Investigate wrong gas price estimation when registering many members
  • [nwaku] Adopt the new web3-encoding from nim-web3