2024-01-29 Waku Weekly

Waku Update §

• 2024 Milestones have been defined, to be structured and prioritized this week, subject to change pending approval from stakeholders.
• Remaining open TWN Gen 0 Milestone items to be priorirized in 2024 Milestones and Epics.

Waku Network Gen 0 §

Open Epics

• Autosharding for autoscaling | js-waku | critical | 75%
• Node bandwidth management mechanism | nwaku | not critical | 0%
• Sharded peer management and discovery | js-waku | critical | 87%
• Launch and dogfood integrated public Waku Network MVP | nwaku | critical | 0%
• Production testing of existing protocols | js-waku & nwaku | critical | 40%
• Sharded capability discovery for light protocols | js-waku & go-waku | critical | 0%
• Basic DoS protection in production | go-waku & research | critical | 28%
• Basic front end for node operator | js-waku & nwaku | critical | 83%
  • Blocked : Add implementation of PRESTO middleware.

January 29 Update §

Waku’s development is divided among 6 teams: research, nwaku, go-waku, js-waku, chat-sdk, and ecosystem-development.

Research §

rln-proof-witness Create RLN proof without having the whole tree

• achieved:
  • Create proof of concept where light clients can generate their own rln proofs without having to sync the whole tree.
  • Dog food above PoC and get feedback
  • Start with rln in gossipsub paper

Waku Research - Post Gen 0 Milestones and Epics

• achieved: created outline doc for new Specs/RFC process: https://www.notion.so/Waku-Specs-Process-Improvements-3bca80fe10804aeaa7a184143bdca07d, first designs for new Store protocol, refined effort estimates
• next: implement new Specs process, create milestone/epic related issues, work on draft Store protocol improvement

TWN Connectivity

• achieved: read Meridian paper and wrote how it could be used in TWN, reading on Discv5 topic advert design problems
• next: discuss with VAC topic experts?

nwaku §

feat: Enforce service specific rate limits

• achieved: implemented a simple lightpush and store request rate limit with configurable defaults
• next: prior PR need to finish some more tests

bug: access-control-allow-origin should be set to localhost

• blocked: Eugen done a presto PR utilizing new chronos middleware design, added comments due we need some change on it prior able to use it.

feat: sharded peer management Round 2

• achieved: added sharded peer management config flag, feedback
• next: review & merge

chore: improved error handling when config uses cluster-id and pubsub topics

• achieved: improved error handling for cluster and shard config
• next: review & merge

bug: restart loop of current master

• achieved: got feedback for the PR, implemented fix and merged

bug: RLN validator is only added for statically configured pubsub topics

• achieved: analyzed issue, implemented a solution, tested and raised PR
• next: get feedback on the PR, implement it and merge

feat: REST API - large messages does not seem to be rejected by relay auto api

• achieved: investigated how to approach the issue using generalized validators, implemented a solution, tested and raised PR
• next: get feedback on the PR, implement it and merge

go-waku §

• achieved:

  • document tips and how to debug message loss for status team Debugging
  • fix updating lastProcessedBlock even if no RLN membership event is present fix: update lastProcessedBlock even if no RLN membership event is present
  • fix issue in connectionStatus reporting fix: minor issues in connectionstatus report
  • include a basic lightClient example chore: example update
  • improve logging chore: set log level for all loggers based on logger passed , https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2366
  • support for multiple peer selection for filter feat: support multiple peer selection for filter client

• next:

  • investigate message loss in status-mobile ci
  • investigate if gossipsub scoring can be monitored and reported to app as unhealthy https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/1017
  • dogfooding status desktop and mobile and investigate and support status team for any other message reliability issues

• achieved:

  • fix: add support to aarch64-linux-android in go-zerokit-rln-arm: fix: add support to aarch64-linux-android
  • fix: handle community shard unassignment: fix: handle community shard unassignment and update

• next:

  • work on status/waku integration items

js-waku §

• achieved:

  • simplified rln-js example;
  • released part of improvements for User Pays Own RLN Membership
  • done with investigating test

• next:

  • new cred registration example (based on prev examples)
  • finish improvements for rln
  • bugs found in rln
  • improve tests (issue tbd)

• achieved:

  • decouple sharding params out of core classes Decouple sharding logic from internal classes to SDK

• next:

  • allow creating subscriptions with just content topics allow user to pass content topic to createSubscription

• achieved:

  • lightpush & filter use multiple peers instead of one feat: lightpush & filter send requests to multiple peers
  • local storage as a discovery layer (in progress)
  • fixing interop tests (in progress) fix(tests): append p2p with the multiaddrs from ENR, chore(tests): update max content topics on lightpush from 30 to 100

• next:

  • merge local storage discovery (https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1811),
  • moving message-hash into core (https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/1810),

Ecosystem-development §

Community/Partners §

• achieved: Waku Community Space https://twitter.com/Waku_org/status/1750927368644919722
• next: Logos x HOPR space, 30 days of web3 presentation [BOUNTY] Build dApp of Your Choice Using Waku (Decentralized Communication) and Vue.js
• achieved: final reviews, approved
  • Post by community member bounty hunter: https://x.com/wolz_codelife/status/1751955673603002459?s=20 waku-org/bounties
• achieved: collected and reviewed a few options for Bounty platforms
• next: create dummy bounties to see how things work

Docs §

Integrate benchmark and research into website

• achieved: review of linked PR https://github.com/waku-org/docs.waku.org/pull/157
• next: follow up on integrating spell check into the research and nwaku repos [Epic] Encryption documentation
• next: (still ongoing) initial noise encryption docs Create a FAQ and troubleshooting guide
• next: starting the technical FAQ drafting

DevRel §

• achieved:
  • builder spotlight video with MrFox team
  • 2 tutorial videos reviewed by comms
  • monthly community twitter space: https://twitter.com/Waku_org/status/1750927368644919722
• next:
  • complete all the tutorial videos
  • workshop presentations for ethlatam
  • more builder spotlight videos
  • calls with node operators

Status Integration §

chat-sdk §

• achieved: started the conversation with Hanno on permission-less communities
• next: agree on an approach on permission-less communities.
• achieved: research and draft hash based message query to store node spec
• next: discuss on the iteration of hash based message query