2025-11-24 Waku Weekly

Highlights §

• nwaku: StatusDesktop can use libwaku on Windows

Integrate nwaku in status desktop relay mode only §

• [Deliverable] Nwaku in Status Desktop
  • achieved: [nwaku] Validated that StatusDesktop can run on Windows+nwaku. PR submitted to adapt nwaku’s Makefile to create libwaku dependency on Windows.

Introduce E2E Reliability in Status Communities §

• [Deliverable] SDS protocol in Status - basic integration
  • next:
    • [nwaku] Get merged first sds integration in status-go
    • [chat] Need to add the proper logic to use SDS in status-go

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 simple send API.
      • Spec discussed in https://github.com/waku-org/specs/pull/87
      • WIP: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/3432
        • https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3637
        • https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3644
        • Extend P2pReliability feature to stand as managing send operations in wider terms.
          • Handle cases where no Store service is available and/or no P2PReliability is set.

Create Chat SDK MVP §

• [Deliverable] Chat SDK Developer Preview
  • achieved:
    • Cleanup of doubleratchet scaffolding 1 2
    • Code cleanup
    • Initial draft of Ratcheting Private Identifiers
    • Review of outstanding items for preview release
  • next: Waku Delivery service implementation with discovery

Maintenance §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] new metric in postgres_driver to estimate payload stats
  • [nwaku] admin API peer shards field from metadata protocol
  • [nwaku] waku canary web-socket not working
• next:
  • [nwaku] WSS handler socket leak