2025-MM-DD Waku Weekly

Store Service Upgrade §

• DOS protection for req-res protocols and metrics
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Direct Message Reliability §

• Reliability Protocol for Resource-Restricted Clients

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• PostgreSQL Optimisation phase 1

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End-to-end reliability protocol §

• End-to-end reliability protocol - Status integration
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Scale up number of Communities §

• Usage of Rendezvous

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• DoS protection for req-res protocols and metrics (go-waku as service node)

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RLN Mainnet §

• Implement RLN smart contract for paid, multilevel memberships

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• RLN contract revision and audit

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• Testnet L2 with on-chain tree

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• RLNv2 Web management interface

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• Deploy RLN smart contract to a L2 mainnet

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Nwaku in Status Desktop (relay mode) §

• Nwaku on Windows

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• Nwaku in Status Desktop

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• MessagingAPI: Rust SDK

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Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC

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• Service Incentivisation - Service incentivisation roadmap & spec

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Foundation for Communities Optimization §

• Define and implement sharding for Communities messages

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• Review usage of content topics in Status Communities protocol

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Hardening and scaling foundations for private chats §

• Isolate private chat traffic

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• Specify private chat protocol

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• Private chat rate limit PoC

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Upgrade Waku for the Web §

• Scalable Data Sync in browser

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• Improved browser bootstrap

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• Browser simulations

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Logos Web apps §

• Reliable Qaku & library
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Explore Peer Discovery Gap §

• Mixnet PoC
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Nwaku in Status Mobile MVP §

• Status mobile build with nwaku MVP
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Debugging Tools §

• Status Local Metrics

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• Local Metrics Dashboard

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Messaging API §

• Define Messaging API

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• Messaging API: js-waku

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Maintenance H1 2025 §

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