2025-01-27 Waku Weekly

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

• Specify one-to-one protocol stack
  • achieved: [chat] summary on how the encryption works in Status

Milestone - Store Service Upgrade §

• Store v3 - store synchronisation
  • achieved: [research] several PRs updates and fixes
  • next: [research] merge final PRs to complete ync 2.0 feature

Milestone - RLN Mainnet §

• Testnet L2 with on-chain tree

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] Kickstart RLN learning
  • next:
    • [nwaku] deprecate tree sync strategy https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2924
  • blockers:

• Pay for RLN provision first PoC

  • achieved: [research] implemented Anvil-based testing and addressed comments, PR merged
  • next: [research] outline next steps for the incentivization PoC

• Implement RLN smart contract for paid, multilevel memberships

  • achieved: [research] started integrating new contract in nwaku
  • next: [research] plan the rest of the required work to point nwaku to new contract instance

• RLNv2 Web management interface

  • next: [js-waku] preliminary investigation of RLN Contract

Milestone: Nwaku in Status Desktop §

• Nwaku in Status Desktop
  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] Enhance integration of waku-go-bindings in external applications
      • https://github.com/waku-org/waku-go-bindings/pull/17
      • https://github.com/waku-org/waku-go-bindings/pull/18
      • https://github.com/waku-org/waku-go-bindings/pull/20
  • next:
    • [nwaku] Continue with the integration of waku-go-bindings into status-go

Milestone: Bandwidth optimization and protocol review §

• Review usage of content topics in Status Chat and Communities protocol
  • achieved: [chat] merged PR for phase-1 changes for single content-topic in status communities #5864

Maintenance H1 2025 §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] Fixed outstanding bug of Store usage with SQLite: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3244
  • [nwaku] Fixed failing interop tests:
    • https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3248
    • https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3249
  • [nwaku] Capping max-connections #3184
  • [nwaku] REST API and RLN sync - Resolve RLN Syncing Issue: Investigate and address RLN syncing issues with the REST API #3220.
• next:
  • [nwaku] New v.35.0 release
  • [nwaku] js-waku - nwaku interoperability test stabilization
  • [nwaku] Enhance filter issues (needed by Railgun) - facing test issues
    • https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/3192
    • https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/3191
  • [js-waku] decrease latency during core operations by removing dependency on PeerStore
  • [js-waku] js-waku - nwaku interoperability investigations
  • [js-waku] update test artifact dependency in CI