2024-12-16 Waku Weekly

Milestone - Store Service Upgrade §

• Store v3 - store synchronisation
  • achieved: [research] Specification initial draft
  • next: [research] spec improvements, add tests suite

Milestone - End-to-end reliability protocol §

• End-to-end reliability protocol - Status integration
  • achieved: [research] raised PR for the simplified bloom filter
  • next: [research] address review comments, raise PR for protobuf
  • blockers: [research] awaiting nim-specific PR feedback from nwaku team

Milestone - RLN Mainnet §

• Provision RLN for light push clients PoC

  • next: [nwaku] Improved epoch monitoring chore: improve epoch monitoring

• Public dogfooding RLNaaS web app

  • achieved: [js-waku] Introduce preferred Store node configuration feat(store): allow using a specific node
  • next:
    • [js-waku] Filter subscriptions revamp feat: improve filter subscriptions
    • [js-waku] Peer management revamp feat: improve peer manager and re-integrate to light push

Milestone - Scale up number of Communities §

• Usage of Rendezvous
  • achieved: [research] PR for Rendezvous in nwaku merged

Milestone: Nwaku in Status Desktop §

• Nwaku in Status Desktop

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] Developed most of the implementation of topic health in nwaku with the possibility to be integrated via libwaku
    • [nwaku] Opened PR calling libwaku’s Relay callback in every received message and allowing for the configuration of other application level callbacks - feat: allowing configuration of application level callbacks
    • [nwaku] Ported fixes to waku-go-bindings for receiving Relay messages - chore: porting fixes for receiving relay messages
    • [nwaku] Add support to timestamps received as numeric strings fix(libwaku): support string and int64 for timestamps
    • [nwaku] Receive messages via relay feat(nwaku)_: receive messages via relay
    • [nwaku] Extract timeouts from go contexts to pass them to libwaku fix: extract timeout from context
    • [nwaku] Fix waku_relay_unsubscribe fix(libwaku): waku_relay_unsubscribe
    • [nwaku] Obtain free port numbers for libwaku feat_: use correct port field, get free ports and uncomment some functions
  • next:
    • [nwaku] have the PRs reviewed, implement feedback and merge
    • [nwaku] test and open PR for the topic health implementation
    • [nwaku] add protected topic support

• Nwaku on Windows

  • achieved: [nwaku] Successfully built remaining targets for Windows support.
  • next: [nwaku] make it sufficient integrate windows support into status-desktop.

Milestone: Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC
  • achieved: [research] addressed some comments to the first incentivization PoC PR feat: Add incentivization PoC for RLNaaS in Lightpush
  • next: [research] continue working on the PR to get it merged

Milestone: Bandwidth optimization and protocol review §

• Status usage of Waku scaling and bandwidth optimization recommendation

  • achieved: [research] Added testing tools and Cleaned up existing tools
  • next: [research] Make PR for testing tools and start looking at store metrics required to qualify milestones

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

  • achieved:
    • [research] addressed review comments and simplified code changes for phase-1 changes and is ready to be QA tested and can be taken up for 2.33 feat_: use a single content-topic for all community chats
    • [research] phase-2 PR is tested locally and is ready as well feat_: use content-topic override for all community filters. Up to status devs decision on which release this should be included in.
  • next: [research] fix an issue reported by status QA whenever they test these changes.

Survey impact of message rate and size limit §

• RLN-readiness early testing status-go
  • achieved: [chat] Rate Limit on 1:1 Messages

Other Work §

Maintenance §

• next:
  • [nwaku] Bring support to Atoma with waku-rust-bindings
  • [nwaku] Bump vendor dependencies for release 0.35.0 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] Deprecated maxConnection in peerManager chore: Reserve % of max connections for relay
  • [js-waku] investigation of interop pipelines chore: upgrade nwaku to 0.33.0 and check interop tests

Bugs §

• achieved: [chat] fixed concurrent panic found while testing fix: fatal error: concurrent map writes
• next:
  • [nwaku] Enhance filter issues (needed by Railgun) - facing test issues
    • bug: filter service node creates a new stream for every single message
    • bug: filter not accepting more subscriptions under moderate usage