2025-01-20 Waku Weekly

Milestone - Scale one-to-one chats and app protocols §

• Survey impact of message rate and size limit
  • achieved: [chat] started conversation on RLN UX
  • next: [chat] agree on a UX for RLN

Milestone - Store Service Upgrade §

• Store v3 - store synchronisation

  • achieved: [research] PR update/fixes based on comments
  • next: [research] design protocol update for multishard support, more updates/fixes, updating test plan for store sync v2.0

• PostgreSQL Maintenance

  • next: [research] optimisation - reviewing required metrics and collaborating with DST to get the required measurements

Milestone - Direct Message Reliability §

• Reliability Protocol for Resource-Restricted Clients
  • achieved: [nwaku] implementation of the new lightpush protocol version ready (No PR yet, as no complete without libp2p enhancement)
  • next:
    • [nwaku] Lightpush v2. libp2p extension is under development https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2722
      • Optimizing observers for better performance.
      • Proper error reporting from publish
    • [js-waku] re-iterate on filter subscription management

Milestone - End-to-end reliability protocol §

• End-to-end reliability protocol - Status integration
  • achieved: [research] Implemented the C bindings generation for the SDS API. Bloom filter PR merged. Opened PR for rolling bloom filter, protobuf & reliability utils.
  • next: [research] Merge ongoing PRs and open PR for reliability manager

Milestone - RLN Mainnet §

• Pay for RLN provision first PoC
  • achieved: [research] improved code structure in the PoC, integrated Anvil for testing, addressed comments for the PR
  • next: [research] continue with Anvil integration in PoC tests

Milestone: Nwaku in Status Desktop §

• Nwaku in Status Desktop
  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] implemented and opened PR using message hashes in hex in interfaces used by applications
    • [nwaku] refactored waku-go-bindings
    • [nwaku] adapted waku-go-bindings to the usage of message hashes in hex and added a test for Store
  • next: [nwaku] implement feedback and merge PRs, continue with the integration of waku-go-bindings to status-go

Milestone: Bandwidth optimization and protocol review §

• Minimal solution for greedy messages
  • achieved: [chat] testing shard 128 for status messages on this branch
  • next: [chat] test backup/sync on shard 128

Maintenance H1 2025 §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] reduce libwaku size
  • [nwaku] remove negentropy from golan example
  • [nwaku] remove libpcre dependency
  • [nwaku] fix sqlite issue
  • [nwaku] log rotation on nwaku-compose
• next:
  • [nwaku] js-waku vs nwaku interoperability test stabilization
  • [nwaku] Capping mechanism for relay and service connections
  • [nwaku] Enhanced Epoch Monitoring
  • [nwaku] Enhance filter issues (needed by Railgun)
    • filter service node creates a new stream for every single message
    • filter not accepting more subscriptions under moderate usage
  • [nwaku] RLN fails to reset at epoch limit
  • [js-waku] Investigate WebSocket issues in NodeJS
  • [js-waku] Improve reliability of interop tests
  • [js-waku] Investigate filter issues in NodeJS