2024-09-09 Waku Weekly

Milestone - Store Service Upgrade §

• Store v3-beta - Message Hashes

  • achieved:
    • [research] Refined testing tools and query criteria for benchmark tests
  • next:
    • [research] run some more queries and discuss findings

• Store v3 - store synchronisation

  • achieved:
    • [research]: remove archive queries 100 hashes limit to allow bigger sync
  • next:
    • [research]: continue to monitor deployment in fleet, spec update

• PostgreSQL Maintenance

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] Enhance libpq response management and new libp2p store metric chore: enhance libpq management
    • [nwaku] started the implementation of new metrics to measure queries’ times chore: create grafana panel to show max, min, mean, median stats of query times
    • [nwaku] investigate issue chore: store queries for content topics take longer with cursor
    • [research] completed main benchmark test scenarios
  • next:
    • [research] write up of benchmark test findings

Milestone - Direct Message Reliability §

• Review connection management strategy and back-off and fix long disconnection issues

  • achieved:
    • [chat] bug: requesting always 24h from store node: fix_: store query lastrequest

• Tooling: filter and light push protocols

  • achieved:
    • [chat] go-waku: reduce filter loop to 300ms fix_: reduce filter loop to 300ms

• Reliability Protocol for Relay

  • achieved:
    • [chat] fix empty subscription when publish message with relay, fix: check subscription when relay publish message, feat: join community request with mvds

• Reliability Protocol for Resource-Restricted Clients

  • achieved:
    • [js-waku] fix missing messages from Filter and align with RFC fix: filter missing messages
    • [js-waku] improve bootstrapping of the node fix: improve node bootstrapping

• Review MVDS usage and fail path

  • achieved:
    • [chat] dogfooding community join request with mvds feat: join community request with mvds
    • [chat] accept community join request with mvds feat_: accept community join request with mvds

Milestone - End-to-end reliability protocol §

• End-to-end reliability protocol - PoC

  • achieved:
    • [research] POC - added better logging and other suggestions from dogfooding

• End-to-end reliability protocol - Status integration

  • achieved:
    • [research]: started a post on sdk/library idea for status integration
  • next:
    • [research]: continue working on post, gather feedback and iterate

Milestone - Scale 1:1 chat messages PoC §

• Maturing RLN variables/parameters revision

  • achieved:
    • [research]: discussed RLN contract implementation, suggested spec improvements Refinements of RLN on mainnet spec

• Provision RLN for light push clients PoC

  • achieved:
    • [research]: drafted a forum post on service incentivization
  • next:
    • [research]: finalize and discuss the forum post

Milestone - Scale up number of Communities §

• Usage of Rendezvous
  • achieved:
    • [research]: modified nim-libp2p to allow waku rdv strategy, updated nwaku PR to reflect libp2p changes
  • next:
    • [research]: PR feedback and update cycle, spec update

Other Work §

Enhancements §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] Reproduction of gossip-level message duplication in stressed conditions.
    • Succeed in reproducing and collecting logs from a controlled simulation env.
    • Analysed logs to verify possible hypotheses.
    • Re-run tests with different setup and configuration.
  • [nwaku] NWaku in Windows - Successfully built the nim compiler in isolation with an automated system detail fetching process.
  • [chat] go-waku: bump go-libp2p and go-libp2p-pubsub chore: bump go-libp2p and go-libp2p-pubsub
  • [js-waku] chore: release master, chore: release master
  • [js-waku] remove extra dependencies from sdk package chore: remove relay from sdk package
• next:
  • [js-waku] work on improvements for release processes chore: up release-please

Bugs §

• achieved:
  • [chat] status-go: retry dnsdisc on failure
  • [chat] go-waku: stop creating goroutines if context is already canceled fix: stop creating goroutines if context is already canceled
  • [js-waku] fix installation and remove broken dependencies fix: temporarily remove peer cross dependencies

BD: Demonstrate Product-Market Fit §

• achieved:
  • Defined customer interview questions
  • Had first rehearsal with a prospect where some of the questions were asked
  • Invited first 3 projects to interview
• next:
  • Enroll more projects into the Interviews+Codesign initiative
  • Rework validation tracking board

BD: Acquire first 10 Customers §

• achieved:
  • New project using Waku in the payments vertical, referred by a prospect
• next:
  • another prospect call this week
  • Prospecting in Singapore