2024-12-09 Waku Weekly

Milestone - Store Service Upgrade §

• Store v3 - store synchronisation

  • achieved: [research] delta encoding of payloads
  • next: [research] write specifications
  • blockers: [research] bugs in Nim std library (requires version update)

• PostgreSQL Maintenance

  • achieved: [research] refined testing tools
  • next: [research] create new repo for benchmarking and testing tools

Milestone - Direct Message Reliability §

• User apps for large scale dogfooding
  • achieved: [js-waku] provided testing tool and identified problematic points in nwaku <> js-waku Filter usage bug: railgun stops receiving Filter messages after a while
  • next: [js-waku] add API for using particular Store nodes feat: API allows usage of specific nodes for protocols

Milestone - End-to-end reliability protocol §

• End-to-end reliability protocol - Status integration
  • achieved: [research] simplify bloom filter to use nim’s default hash, a fix in missing dependencies logic for received msgs
  • next: [research] test and finalize the updated bloom filter, PRs feedback

Deploy RLN onchain tree on L2 Testnet §

• RLNv2 in nwaku
  • achieved:
    • [chat] add a custom rate limiter to meet RLN contract config feat: rate limit with rln configuration
    • [chat] test status-go with the custom rate limiter Commit 0aa2ee8

Milestone: Nwaku in Status Desktop §

• Nwaku in Status Desktop
  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] Implemented feedback and merged PR for running DNS discovery asynchronously feat: making dns discovery async
    • [nwaku] Finished first working version of waku-go-bindings feat: initial implementation
    • [nwaku] Tested importing and using waku-go-bindings from a different Go project
    • [nwaku] Integrated async support to waku-go-bindings feat: integrate async support
    • [nwaku] Added support for Filter, Lightpush and store configurations in waku-go-bindings - chore: adding configurations for lightpush, filter and store
    • [nwaku] Refactor existing PR: refactor(libwaku): async based on recommendations from Jacek

Milestone: Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC
  • achieved: [research] implemented a simplified version of txid check as proof of payment (with some things hard-coded that ideally shouldn’t be)
  • next: [research] open up PR for review: feat: Add incentivization PoC for RLNaaS in Lightpush

Other Work §

Maintenance §

• achieved:
  • [js-waku] identified breaking changes with nwaku for interop testing chore: upgrade nwaku to 0.33.0 and check interop tests2176
  • [chat] debug and fix missed msgs not retrieved after disconnection
    • fix: use bad peer removal logic only for lightpush and filter and option to restart missing message verifier
    • fix_: bad peer check logic for lightmode and some fixes
• next:
  • [nwaku] Release v0.34.0
  • [nwaku] Bring support to Atoma with waku-rust-bindings
  • [nwaku] Vendor version upgrades are finished - major achievement having latest web3, eth and libp2p libraries in nim-waku. - moving to release v0.35.0
  • [nwaku] Complete toy-chat in waku-rust-bindings (powered by libwaku)
  • [nwaku] Continue attempt to compile status-mobile + status-go + libwaku for Android
  • [nwaku] Moving to latest nim - 2.0.12

Bugs §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] Fix storenode task executor response handling. This part broke during a refactoring done to move reliability layer from status-go to go-waku fix_: nil *MessengerResponse is a valid result
• next:
  • [nwaku] Enhance filter issues (needed by Railgun)
    • bug: filter service node creates a new stream for every single message
    • bug: filter not accepting more subscriptions under moderate usage