2024-09-23 Waku Weekly

Milestone - Store Service Upgrade §

• Store v3 - store synchronisation

  • achieved:
    • [research] Waku sync 2.0 research post first draft.
    • [nwaku] bug: libnegentropy.so is missing during link or false linked static linkage for libnegentropy - helps easier deployment chore: Switch libnegentropy library build from shared to static linkage
  • next:
    • [research] Write a basic test plan for store sync
    • [research] finalize Waku sync 2.0 research post

• PostgreSQL Maintenance

  • achieved:
    • [research] Investigated some store query duration test cases
    • [nwaku] Submitted PR - chore: extending store metrics
  • next:
    • [research] Run a few more tests and summarise the test results

Milestone - End-to-end reliability protocol §

• End-to-end reliability protocol - PoC

  • achieved:
    • [research] dogfooding session for POC

• End-to-end reliability protocol - Status integration

  • achieved:
    • [research] published API spec proposal for status-go integration to Vac forum: Vac API Specification for End-to-end Reliability
  • next:
    • [research] discussion and iterate on API spec; detailed review of points of integration

Milestone - Static Sharding - dedicated shards §

• Sharding peer management and discovery hardening

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] made the connectivity loop interval dynamic depending on the current number of peers and targets
    • [nwaku] investigated impact nodes advertised with localhost addresses chore: don’t propagate peers with 127.0.0.1 multiaddresses via Discv5
    • [nwaku] implemented feedback and merged pubsub topic deprecation chore: deprecating pubsub topic

• Enable testing of custom shard implementation for Communities

  • achieved:
    • [chat] add cli test with own shard community feat: add the first community in own shard

Milestone - Scale 1:1 chat messages PoC §

• RLNv2 in nwaku

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] RLN Membership Contract - feat: membership

• Maturing RLN variables/parameters revision

  • achieved:
    • [research] review RLN on mainnet PR

Milestone - Scale up number of Communities §

• Usage of Rendezvous

  • blockers:
    • [research] awaiting nim-libp2p PR review

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

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] PeerExchange protocol with rate limit check.
      • chore: rate limit peer exchange protocol, enhanced response status in RPC
      • Updated protocol
      • New CLI for configure rate limiting. Allows fine tune rate limits to one needs.
    • [nwaku] Deliverable is ready on nwaku.

Milestone: Nwaku in Status Desktop §

• Nwaku in Status Desktop

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] start working on it more actively feat: nwaku in status-go (discv5 and dnsdiscovery)
    • [nwaku] chore: libwaku reduce repetitive code by adding a template handling resp returns

• Nwaku on Windows

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] Worked on resolving external library linking issues. feat: windows support
    • [nwaku] Started refactoring the peer manager. Improvement: manage stale peer in peer_manager
  • next:
    • [nwaku] Wrapping up Windows support with automation & then focusing on peer manager refactoring after that.

Milestone: Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• RLN Relay Incentivisation - Distribute RLN fees PoC

  • achieved:
    • [research] Got feedback for the initial proposal: RLN Fees distribution to operators with root voting
  • next:
    • [research] Refine and explore open problems: challenge for lazy node, analyze if assumptios hold valid, consensus problem when no 2/3 are archieved, etc.

• Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC

  • achieved:
    • [research] discussed the Vac forum post on service incentivization
  • next:
    • [research] finalize forum post discussion; amend incentivization spec

Milestone: Bandwidth optimization and protocol review §

• Status usage of Waku scaling and bandwidth optimization recommendation

  • achieved:
    • [chat] draft the spec about some bandwidth issues feat: bandwidth optimize spec

• Review usage of content topics in Status Chat and Communities protocol

  • achieved:
    • [chat] analysis of current content-topic usage in status communities Status Message Types - Content Topics

Milestone: Demonstrate Product-Market Fit §

• achieved:
  • found new projects interested in interviewing and co-designing (see milestone 2)
• next:
  • book interviews and enroll for co-design

Milestone: Acquire first 10 Customers §

• achieved:
  • attended Singapore Blockchain Week (token2049):
    • projects interested in partnering:
      • Sports prediction market;
      • private social protocol;
      • Network state/pop up city;
      • Intents protocols;
      • Inbound leads have been coming to us on discord, a good sign despite marketing activity wind down;

Other Work §

Maintenance §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] added version migration instructions to the docs feat: add migration instructions

Bugs §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] investigated failed interop tests and found solutions. Fixed config bug fix: setting up node with modified config