2024-10-14 Waku Weekly

Milestone - Store Service Upgrade §

• Store v3 - store synchronisation

  • achieved:
    • [research] progress on Waku Sync 2.0 POC
    • [research] Received input on store sync test goals and made progress on a test plan
    • [nwaku] Enhance error response instead of ambiguous numerical in waku_sync. We need two pull requests, one for negentropy and another one for nwaku.
  • next:
    • [research] finishing Waku Sync 2.0 POC
    • [research] get store sync enabled again on status.staging and implement docker-compose to run multiple store sync nodes with their own DB for simulations

• PostgreSQL Maintenance

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] chore: store queries for content topics take longer with cursor
    • [nwaku] chore: optimize store v3 queries
  • next:
    • [research] run benchmark tests to get comparison of duration before and after optimisation
    • [nwaku] Reach a conclusion on whether we need time-sortable msgHash chore: make the msg hash time-sortable

Milestone - Direct Message Reliability §

• Reliability Protocol for Resource-Restricted Clients
  • achieved:
    • [js-waku] refined LightPush implementation for better testability and reliability
    • [chat] add backoff strategy for filter subscriptions in case of recurring failures
  • next:
    • [js-waku] enhanced peer and connection management for better reliability of Filter feat: enhancing protocol management with mutex locks
    • [js-waku] investigate and fix problematic points in reliability manager that breaks Filter subscriptions sometimes feat(lightPush): improve peer usage and improve readability
    • [js-waku] limit max amount of open connections to prevent spamming of TWN feat: maintain max open connection & prune unhealthy connections from peer store

Milestone - End-to-end reliability protocol §

• End-to-end reliability protocol - Status integration
  • achieved: [research] progress on implementation of the API in nim
  • next: [research] finish implementing the core reliability API functions

Milestone - Static Sharding - dedicated shards §

• Enable testing of custom shard implementation for Communities
  • achieved: [chat] add mvds to cli logs to pick them up with the tests: chore_: check mvds for tests

Milestone - RLN Mainnet §

• Implement RLN smart contract for paid, multilevel memberships
  • achieved:
    • [chat] waku-rlnv2-contract: setup linea deployment - feat: deploy to Linea
    • [chat] waku-rlnv2-contract: refactor to keep contract Owned and not Owned2Step - feat: Ownable2StepUpgradeable to OwnableUpgradeable

Milestone - Scale up number of Communities §

• Usage of Rendezvous
  • blockers: [research] wait for new nim-libp2p version

Milestone: Nwaku in Status Desktop §

• Nwaku in Status Desktop

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] chore: adding missing error handling in libwaku
    • [nwaku] fix: remove quotes from libwaku’s returned enr string
    • [nwaku] fix: changing libwaku’s error handling format
    • [nwaku] Adding fixes to status-go nwaku basic test, getting DNS discovery to work

• Nwaku on Windows

  • achieved: [nwaku] compile libwaku and some examples
  • next: [nwaku] Run wakunode2, cwaku_example, and tests on Windows

Milestone: Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• Service Incentivisation - Service incentivisation roadmap & spec
  • achieved: [research] review some RLN on mainnet contract PRs
  • next: [research] service incentivization spec update

Milestone: Demonstrate product-market fit §

• Define potential USPs

  • achieved:
    • Restructured and abbreviated the validation matrix;
    • Populated the matrix with information gathered in recent prospect calls;
  • next: Continue populating and analyse the findings;

• Define target customers

  • achieved:
    • 3 segments identified for customer interviews;
    • We have 2 projects from a non-core segment also interested;

• Customer Interviews

  • achieved: Did the first interview with a ZKid
  • next:
    • interview projects mentioned above
    • Invite others in pipeline for interview

• Co-design sessions

  • achieved: Soft commitments from 3 projects for co-design sessions;
  • next: Schedule the sessions for Devcon or afterwards;

Milestone: Acquire first 10 customers §

• 5-10 Highly qualified leads
  • achieved:
    • Qualified 2 more projects.
    • One in the payments vertical (private state channels);
    • One in the zkID vertical;
  • next: Propose co-designing

Other Work §

Maintenance §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] Released v0.33.1
  • [nwaku] Remove spammy log fix: remove spammy log
  • [nwaku] Temporarily skip flaky test chore: improving and temporarily skipping flaky rln test
  • [nwaku] Analyzed perf logs of nodes getting stuck. Progressed with the investigation and seem close to a resolution, asked DST for some extra information bug: node getting stuck and missing messages
  • [js-waku] refined API for connecting to the network chore: make waitForRemotePeer part of the waku interface
  • [js-waku] improved gathering of metrics for frequently occurring events
  • [js-waku] expose peerId and protocols from main object for better API feat: expose peerId and protocols from WakuNode
  • [js-waku] improve API for awaiting peers in the network by enabling it on the main object feat: replace waitForRemotePeers() with waku.waitForPeer() method
  • [js-waku] enable unit testing in waku/sdk and add unit tests for awaiting for peers API feat: add mocha tests to @waku/sdk and cover waitForRemotePeer
  • [js-waku] speed up and optimize awaiting for new peers functionality feat: confirm metadata and protocols needed in waitForRemotePeer
  • [js-waku] ease naming of some interfaces chore: rename IProtocolSDK interfaces to IProtocol naming convention
  • [chat] add clusterId and shards config for c-bindings feat: add clusterID and shards config to c-bindings
• next:
  • [nwaku] prepare Rust app for devcon workshop
  • [js-waku] release critical bug fixes for Filter and LightPush
  • [js-waku] refine Connection Manager for better reliability and testability feat: refactor ConnectionManager for maintainability
  • [js-waku] update CI to use latest nwaku release and adjust interop pipeline for master chore: upgrade nwaku to 0.33.0 and check interop tests

Bugs §

• achieved:
  • [chat] status-go: investigate and fix builds not working when bumping go-waku. Fixed in PR which keeps generated files in vendor folder - fix_: don’t ignore generated files in vendor/
  • [chat] status-go: bandwidth counter should be reset each time it is retrieved otherwise it behaves like an accumulator - fix_: bandwidthCounter should be reset each time it is retrieved otherwise it behaves like an accumulator