2024-09-16 Waku Weekly

Milestone - Store Service Upgrade §

• Store v3 - store synchronisation

  • achieved:
    • [research] Store Sync spec first draft
  • next:
    • [research] continue dogfooding Store Sync

• PostgreSQL Maintenance

  • achieved:
    • [research] Completed test report for Storev3 benchmark testing
  • next:
    • [research] Investigate some store query duration anomalies, test plan for store sync

Milestone - Direct Message Reliability §

• Reliability Protocol for Resource-Restricted Clients
  • next:
    • [nwaku] Lightpush v2: ongoing implementation in nwaku and libp2p
• Review MVDS usage and fail path
  • achieved:
    • [chat] dogfooding the community join response with mvds feat_: accept community join request with mvds

Milestone - End-to-end reliability protocol §

• End-to-end reliability protocol - PoC
  • next:
    • [research] organise sync dogfooding session for PoC
• End-to-end reliability protocol - Status integration
  • achieved:
    • [research] finalized the API spec post for status-go integration
  • next:
    • [research] gather feedback on the API spec proposal

Milestone - Static Sharding - dedicated shards §

• Sharding peer management and discovery hardening
  • achieved:
    • [chat] fix issue of periodic peer disconnections fix: use correct ticker for all peers ping
    • [chat] investigate message drop issue at gossipsub layer and validate possible fix feat: increase outbound q size for pubsub

Milestone - Scale 1:1 chat messages PoC §

• RLNv2 in nwaku

  • achieved:
    • [chat] waku-rlnv2-contract: membership feat: membership

• Maturing RLN variables/parameters revision

  • next:
    • [research] review memberships PR for RLN on mainnet (https://github.com/waku-org/waku-rlnv2-contract/pull/13)

Milestone - Scale up number of Communities §

• Usage of Rendezvous

  • next:
    • [research] awaiting nim-lib2p PR review

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

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] dashboard for fleets are live

Milestone: Nwaku in Status Desktop §

• Nwaku on Windows
  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] Added windows support for the negentropy submodule chore: update makefile to give support major os
    • [nwaku] will modify the nimbus-build-system to integrate Windows.
    • [nwaku] Raised an initial PR to build wakunode2 on Windows feat: windows support
  • next:
    • [nwaku] Continuing to work on additional builds, including libwaku and cwaku_example.

Milestone: Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• RLN Relay Incentivisation - Distribute RLN fees PoC

  • achieved:
    • [research] Draft proposal: RLN Fees distribution to operators with root voting
  • next:
    • [research] gather feedback and think about next steps.

• Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC

  • achieved:
    • [research] finalized the blog post on service incentivization: Incentivized Lightpush: A Roadmap to Waku Service Incentivization
  • next:
    • [research] continue discussion around service incentivizaiton forum post;

Other Work §

Enhancements §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] chore: use submodule nph in CI to check lint
  • [nwaku] chore: lightpush - error metric less variable by only setting a fixed string
  • [nwaku] fix: get back health check for postgres legacy

Bugs §

• achieved:
  • [chat] go-waku: make the envelope priority queue safe for concurrent access fix: make the envelope priority queue safe for concurrent access
  • [chat] status-go: make mailserver availability subscriptions concurrency safe fix: make mailserver availability subscriptions concurrency safe