2024-04-26 Waku Weekly

Research Milestones §

Store Incentivisation

• Status: In Progress
• Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/17
  • achieved: discuss incentivization with Akhil
  • next: plan out incentivization PoC (Lightpush instead of Store?)
  • blockers: (no longer a blocker) the deadline for the academic paper final version

RLN in resource-restricted clients

• Status: In Progress
• Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/18/views/1
  • achieved: New Merkle tree integration (LazyIMT) integrated https://github.com/alrevuelta/go-waku-light/pull/2 and new version of contract using said tree https://github.com/vacp2p/rln-contract/pull/31 (with Ar. help). PoC ready to get Merkle proofs from the contract using the finally merged https://github.com/privacy-scaling-explorations/zk-kit/pull/162. With this tree, we can assume the increase in gas cost and in exchange we get roots and merkle proofs onchain.
  • next: Continue work in go-waku-light and prepare an end to end PoC to showcase this new feature. Write a report with findings and tradeoffs for future reference.
  • blocker: “VacRlnContract” is not compatible with “WakuRlnContract”. This https://github.com/vacp2p/rln-contract/pull/31 should be adapted to work with waku nodes (required for the PoC). Awaiting Vac’s support.

RLNv2

• Status: In Progress
• Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/21/views/1
  • achieved: merged PR to remove go-waku from waku-simulator
  • next: update to RLNv2
  • blockers: deployment still not working on wakusim host, but there is an issue for infra to debug and I can continue by using the wakudev host

Store v3 - Waku Sync

• Status: In Progress
• Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/20/views/1

Store v3 - message hashes

• Status: In Progress
• Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/16/views/1

Status Integration §

• Status: In Progress
• Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/5/views/2
  • in-progress:
    • [nwaku] Add logging of hashes to all nodes

Engineering Milestones §

JSON RPC Deprecation

• Status: Completed
• Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/8/views/1

Composing Waku Protocols to Improve Reliability

• Status: In Progress
• Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/9/views/1
  • completed:
    • [js-waku] chore: protocol implementations in @waku/core should be as unopinionated as possible
  • in-progress:
    • [js-waku] feat: Store reliability

Operator Feature Requests

• Status: In Progress
• Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/13/views/1
  • completed:
    • [nwaku] chore: detailed json report on /health endpoint
    • [nwaku] chore: Extend node isReady with more mature checks and result returned

Bindings (Rust, NodeJS, Golang)

• Status: In Progress
• Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/6/views/6
  • in-progress:
    • [nwaku] chore: migrate DiscV5 and DNS Discovery from app.nim to waku_node.nim
  • next:
    • [nwaku] chore: support setting DiscV5 and DNS-discovery in libwaku

Node Bandwidth Management Mechanism

• Status: In Progress
• Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/11
  • in-progress:
    • [js-waku] feat: prefer error code for req-res protocol over exception

Other Work §

Bugs §

In Progress §

• [js-waku] bug: lightPush is not able to keep node connections
• [js-waku] bug: remote peer fault
• [js-waku] bug: filter subscription stops without occasional pings
• [nwaku] bug: wakunode2 systemd unit restarts about 10-15x per day
• [nwaku] bug: SIGSEGV with RLN
• [nwaku] bug: build error on new AMD cpu’s (ubuntu 22.04 LTS)
• [nwaku] bug: Peer Reconnection not working?
• [nwaku] bug: nwaku <> js-waku interop tests failing

Next §

• [nwaku] bug/regression: node ca be started on multiple clusters
• [nwaku] bug: autosharding resolves content topics to wrong shard
• [nwaku] bug: Store REST API returns invalid digest

Enhancements §

In Progress §

• [nwaku] chore: review waku-simulator deployment and improve tracking processes
• [nwaku] feat: add WakuMessage’s meta field to db schema
• [nwaku] chore: Address more attack vectors in rate limiting non-relay protocols
• [js-waku] feat: filter.createSubscription accept ShardParams

Next §

• [js-waku] chore: move to js-waku repo
• [js-waku] feat: better developer experience

Ecosystem Development §

BD §

• Calls with prospects
• Advancing ongoing going leads
• Qualified prospects
• Created a validation tracking database
• Event planning done for the upcopming quarters

Solution Engineering §

• Working on slides for talks in May/June
• Trying to get js-waku working in projects again - so far resulted in filed issues
• updated nwaku to 0.27.0 in awesome-akash
• calls with BD
• assisting Portrait with some architectural decisions
• assisting Dria with nwaku REST API

Dev Rel §

• token2049 (20+ leads)
• libp2p rpgf nomination completed
• sorting out ethdenver leads, sorting out crm
• drafting Railgun blog article
• forwarding portrait.so interview to comms
• interview preparation for Railgun <> waku
• Ethdam feedback/summary

Comms and Events §

• X: 1441 new followers ( +11%), 47.8% engagement rate ( +58%), 15889 likes (+47%) - we hit 10k on Twitter - yay!
• Linkedin: 11 new followers
• Discord: +44 (2.6%)
• 1 PR went live, about W3PN and Logos, mentioning Waku - https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/logos-partners-with-web3privacy-now-to-advance-digital-privacy
• We’v interviewed Portrait founder at ETHDam - video sent for editing

Events §

• Ivan gave a presentation and spoke at the panel at https://web3fc.xyz/
• Guru attended token2049
• ETHDam summary doc - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kgR8q-WMWJ56kGav6MiFYqkA2eDudc_lFUpdYM3sQ8s/edit and photos

Docs §

• merged the general FAQ
• deprecated the JSON-RPC RFC spec
• Waku RFC website followup