2024-11-04 Waku Weekly

Milestone - Store Service Upgrade §

• Store v3 - store synchronisation
  • achieved:
    • [research] message transfer protocol and integration with sync
    • [research] More store sync investigations
  • next:
    • [research] encoding optimization, metrics, logs, spec
    • [research] Continue with store sync testing, update test plan

Milestone - Static Sharding - dedicated shards §

• Telemetry: Measure Bandwidth

  • achieved: [chat] updated NetworkMonitor

• Sharding peer management and discovery hardening

  • achieved: [chat] add option to specify prefered peers for filter feat: add option to specify preferred peers for filter and fix_: simple bad peer check logic for lightmode

Milestone: Nwaku in Status Desktop §

• Nwaku in Status Desktop
  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] Support for discovery of circuit-relay peers
    • [nwaku] feat: adding waku_dial_peer and get_connected_peers to libwaku
    • [nwaku] feat: running periodicaly peer exchange if discv5 is disabled
    • [nwaku] fix: libwaku’s dns discovery multiaddresses
    • [nwaku] chore: naming connect procedure
    • [nwaku] feat_: dial, drop and retrieve connected peers
    • [nwaku] feat: supporting peer exchange with nwaku

Milestone: Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC
  • achieved:
    • [research] start working on service incentivization PoC
    • [research] Started investigating private payments with SP1
  • next:
    • [research] continue with the PoC; prepare for team discussions at the Bangkok offsite
    • [research] Evaluate feasibility (circom vs sp1 performance)

Milestone: Bandwidth optimization and protocol review §

• Status usage of Waku scaling and bandwidth optimization recommendation

  • achieved: [chat] test the bandwidth difference between relay and light mode Bandwidth Usage Between Relay and Light

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

  • achieved:
    • [chat] phase2 of content-topic change for communities feat_: use content-topic override for all community filters
    • [research] draft PR opened for phase-2 changes feat_: use content-topic override for all community filters

Milestone: Demonstrate product-market fit §

• Customer Interviews

  • achieved: Had a meeting with one of the gaming projects, in doubt if there’s a fit;
  • next: interviewing a network states project;

• Co-design sessions

  • achieved:
    • have a soft commitment to co-design with one of the gaming projects
    • another soft commitment to co-design with an L2
    • Co-designing with an Activism/Privacy project

Milestone: Acquire first 10 customers §

• 5-10 Highly qualified leads

  • achieved:
    • Got Waku a workshop in the Credible intents event
      • This should help find more leads in the intents vertical;
    • We have confirmation that one project in the activism vertical is integrating Waku and they shared the use case document with us;

• Review current integrations

  • achieved:
    • [chat] Devcon, Qaku improvement (progress on integrating Codex for persistency, fixing issues)
    • [chat] Devcon portal - integrating UCANs based authentication

Other Work §

Maintenance §

• next:
  • [nwaku] prepare Rust app for devcon workshop
  • [nwaku] Bump vendor dependencies for release 0.34.0 Vendor version upgrades are finished. Major achievement having latest web3, eth and libp2p libraries in nim-waku. Under review and testing.

Bugs §

• achieved: [chat] investigate various issues reported by status QA wrt message reliability and slow recovery after disconnections Significant delay or missing messages on 4G in community (without re-login or app closure) and Messages are slow and some of them are marked as not delivered (1-1 chat between relay/light) when devise time is async