2024-12-02 Waku Weekly

Offsite and Devcon Highlights §

The Waku team convened in Bangkok November 7th - 15th for team offsite sessions aimed at collaboration and strategic planning:

• Team Retro
• Dedicated discussions for the Research, nwaku, js-waku, and Chat teams
• Status integration planning
• Collaboration with VAC Teams: QA, RFC, ACZ, TKE, SC, DST
• FURPS milestone tracking

Presentations:

• Vaclav showcased the Qaku app
• Franck presented Bringing peer-to-peer networks to ALL the peers
• Franck, Ivan, and Alvaro presented RLNv2: enhanced spam protection for all peer-to-peer networks
• Sasha presented Permissionless P2P with The Waku Network

Milestone - Direct Message Reliability §

• Tooling: filter and light push protocols

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] lite-protocol-tester has officially released in harbor
    • [nwaku] it is deployed at infra-misc and now running on status.prod every 3h measuring message reliability and light protocol service availability.
    • [nwaku] dashboard available at grafana.infra.status.im
    • [nwaku] chore: Adding lpt-runner script and assemble into liteprotocoltester image - to ease infra deployment
    • [nwaku] chore: add supervisor for lpt infra
    • [nwaku] waku-lite-protocol-tester: create role
    • [nwaku] Milestone accomplished.
    • [chat] Rate limiting for filter feat: filter rate limit

• Review MVDS usage and fail path

  • achieved:
    • [chat] bump mvds to include the fine-tuning of max retry config chore_: update mvds
    • [chat] change the resend interval to reduce bandwidth chore_: increase the mvds resend interval to save bandwidth

• PostgreSQL Optimisation phase 1

  • achieved: [chat] 24h batches for store queries https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile/pull/21674

Milestone - End-to-end reliability protocol §

• End-to-end reliability protocol - Status integration
  • achieved: [research] implemented periodic tasks handling, added code documentation, added profiling results to bloom filter
  • next: [research] tests for periodic tasks, fix some outstanding bugs, start C api wrapper

Milestone - RLN Mainnet §

• Maturing RLN variables/parameters revision
  • achieved: [nwaku] Resolved flaky RLN test chore: flaky rln test.
  • next: [nwaku] Added metrics for total proofs generated since contract registration and remaining proofs per epoch chore: added metrics for total proofs and remaining proofs per epoch
• Public dogfooding RLNaaS web app
  • achieved: [js-waku] buddybook
  • next: [js-waku] qaku support for townhall Provide support for Qaku

Milestone: Nwaku in Status Desktop §

• Nwaku in Status Desktop
  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] Implemented and opened PR for running DNS discovery asynchronously feat: making dns discovery async
    • [nwaku] Started developing waku-go-bindings
  • next: [nwaku] Continue with waku-go-bindings development

Milestone: Demonstrate product-market fit §

• Co-design sessions
  • achieved:
    • Had the first co-design session with one of the projects;
    • Discussed in detail with 2 projects at Devcon;
  • next:
    • sessions will be held on a weekly basis
    • replicate with other projects

Milestone: Acquire first 10 customers §

• 5-10 Highly qualified leads
  • achieved:
    • Another lead confirmed during Devcon they are going to integrate Waku;
    • Multiple promising meetings during devcon;
  • next:
    • Bring other leads through the finish line;
    • Advance leads acquired during devcon;

Other Work §

Maintenance §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] tic-tac-toe Rust app has been shown in Devcon
  • [nwaku] brought support to Status to analyze delivery issues
  • [nwaku] nim-libp2p library is bumped to latest for release v.0.34.0
  • [nwaku] Release v034.0-rc.1 testing on waku.test
• next:
  • [nwaku] Release v0.34.0
  • [nwaku] Bring support to Atoma with waku-rust-bindings
  • [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. Moving to release v0.35.0
  • [js-waku] allowing js-waku to use a specific store node: feat: API allows usage of specific nodes for protocols
  • [js-waku] fix upgrades to nwaku@latest / breaking CI chore: upgrade nwaku to 0.33.0 and check interop tests

Bugs §

• next:
  • [nwaku] Implementing a capping mechanism for the peer manager to ensure space is always available for service and relay peers chore: Reserve % of max connections for relay.
  • [js-waku] railgun interop investigations bug: railgun stops receiving Filter messages after a while