2024-10-07 Waku Weekly

Milestone - Store Service Upgrade §

• Store v3 - store synchronisation

  • achieved:
    • [research] simple sync storage POC
    • [research] gathered info on store sync and implemented testing tools
  • next:
    • [test] finishing protocol POC
    • [test] store sync testing plan

• PostgreSQL Maintenance

  • achieved:
    • [research] ongoing benchmark test with latest improvement
    • [nwaku] chore: Optimize store
    • [nwaku] chore: store queries for content topics take longer with cursor
  • next:
    • [research] ongoing benchmark test with latest improvement

Milestone - Direct Message Reliability §

• Tooling: filter and light push protocols

  • next:
    • [nwaku] chore: add dashboard for liteprotocoltester runs
      • Added PeerExchange service node discovery
      • Added Peer connection testing and metrics
      • Added flexible service peer switch capability to ensure smooth testingAll are monitored via metrics.
      • Prepare integration LiteProtocolTester with monitoring to infra.

• Reliability Protocol for Resource-Restricted Clients

  • achieved:
    • [js-waku] refined stream management to prevent spamming and higher reliability rate fix: peer renewal connection drop & stream management
    • [js-waku] investigation of peer management and connection management for core protocols
  • next:
    • [js-waku] enhanced peer and connection management for better reliability of Filter feat: enhancing protocol management with mutex locks
    • [js-waku] refine LightPush implementation for better testability and reliability
    • [js-waku] continue with Filter subscriptions investigation bug: Filter subscriptions are not stable and missing messages

Milestone - End-to-end reliability protocol §

• End-to-end reliability protocol - Status integration
  • achieved:
    • [research] Discussion on forum post and some updates based on feedback
  • next:
    • [research] Implementation of the API in nim

Milestone - Static Sharding - dedicated shards §

• Telemetry: Measure Bandwidth

  • achieved:
    • [chat] go-waku: added bandwidth in/out metrics: test: bandwidth totals

• Sharding peer management and discovery hardening

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] Fixed having excess in connections fix: rejecting excess relay connections
    • [nwaku] Fixed out connections leak fix: out connections leak
    • [nwaku] Implemented abstract peer store interface using WakuPeerStore. refactor: wrap peer store
  • next:
    • [nwaku] Restructure functions based on the peer manager’s responsibilities. refactor: re-arrange function based on responsibility of peer-manager

Milestone - RLN Mainnet §

Implement RLN smart contract for paid, multilevel memberships

• achieved:
  • [research] review and improve the RLN mainnet contract and spec
• next:
  • [research] finalize RLN on mainnet PR

Milestone: Nwaku in Status Desktop §

• Nwaku in Status Desktop
  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] logging errors in libwaku Compare changes
    • [nwaku] indicate to the compiler that negentropy.h will be a precompiled header fix: indicate to the compiler that negentropy.h will be a precompiled header
    • [nwaku] build nwaku with nix and use build tags to choose between go-waku and nwaku feat_: build nwaku with nix and use build tags to choose between go-waku and nwaku
  • next:
    • [nwaku] Include nwaku in status-desktop App

Milestone: Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• RLN Relay Incentivisation - Distribute RLN fees PoC

  • achieved:
    • [research] Addressed the open problems and ready for a second round of feedback: RLN Fees distribution to operators with root voting
  • next:
    • [research] Second round of feedback and decide next steps

• Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC

  • next:
    • [research] start service incentivization implementation and spec changes

Milestone: Bandwidth optimization and protocol review §

• Status usage of Waku scaling and bandwidth optimization recommendation

  • achieved:
    • [chat] proposed and discuss about the bandwidth improvement post, Use Waku in a Bandwidth Efficient Way

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

  • achieved:
    • [chat] able to interop test between single content-topic community code and 2.30 code using relay and lightclient feat_: poc to use single content-topic for all community chats

Milestone: Demonstrate product-market fit §

• Define potential USPs

  • achieved: Cleaned up validation matrix. Used to lay out the validation that are needed and capture learnings.

• Define target customers

  • achieved:
    • we can consider payments/relayers/state channels a go-to use case
  • next:
    • finding out more of these

• Customer Interviews

  • achieved:
    • 3 projects to interview and had a call where we touched upon most of the topics
  • next:
    • add more

• Co-design sessions

  • achieved:
    • 2 committments
  • next:
    • add more

Other Work §

Enhancements §

• achieved:
  • [js-waku] dogfooding app dashboard for better overview of TWN from client PoV
  • [chat] go-waku: added unit tests to feat: storenode cycle
  • [chat] go-waku: use byte array to decode ENRs waku2 field: fix: use byte array to decode ENRs uint8 fields
• next:
  • [js-waku] refined API for connecting to the network chore: make waitForRemotePeer part of the waku interface
  • [js-waku] improve telemetry gathering and metric display

Maintenance §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] chore: append current version in agentString which is used by the identify protocol
  • [nwaku] Finished validating and released v0.33.0