2025-02-10 Waku Weekly

Direct Message Reliability §

• Reliability Protocol for Resource-Restricted Clients
  • next:
    • [nwaku] Enhance lightpush protocol error handling
    • [nwaku] Enhance error propagation in libp2p
      • Optimizing observers for better performance
      • Proper error reporting from publish

End-to-end reliability protocol §

• End-to-end reliability protocol - Status integration
  • achieved: [research] addressed review comments on reliability utils PR, new PR for reliability manager, started exploring API integration with status-go
  • next: [research] merge ongoing PRs

RLN Mainnet §

• Provision RLN for light push clients PoC

  • achieved: [research] merged a double-spend protection PR in the incentivization POC
  • next: [research] plan and implement local client-side reputation in the POC

• Implement RLN smart contract for paid, multilevel memberships

  • achieved: [research] Tested local deployment of new RLN contract and identified where in the nwaku code the contract address and implementation is used
  • next: [research] verify nwaku updates and push

• RLNv2 Web management interface

  • next: [js-waku] migrate to RLNv2 contract

Milestone: Nwaku in Status Desktop (Relay mode) §

• Nwaku in Golang: Desktop
  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] Choose ports automatically
    • [nwaku] Fix in GetNumConnectedRelayPeers
    • [nwaku] Test parallel requests
    • [nwaku] Turn off omitempty for Relay
    • [nwaku] Avoid send relay callbacks if relay disabled
    • [nwaku] Found root cause and fixed crash in nwaku’s integration in Status Desktop (fixed in https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/6283)
  • next:
    • [nwaku] Continue with integration of nwaku in Status Desktop
    • [nwaku] Finish new strategy to manage concurrency in libwaku

Hardening and scaling foundations for private chats §

• Specify private chat protocol
  • achieved:
    • [chat] document waku layer encryption in status go

Upgrade Waku for the Web §

• Scalable Data Sync in browser
  • achieved: [js-waku] implement double-hashing strategy for BloomFilter hash functions
  • next: [research] review js-waku SDS PRs

Logos Web Apps §

• Reliable Qaku & library
  • achieved:
    • [chat] Qaku FURPS
    • [chat] Minor Qaku fixes 1 2 3

Explore Peer Discovery Gap §

• Waku Sync

  • achieved: [research] limited shard support for waku sync
  • next: [research] full shard support & request time range trimming

• Mixnet POC

  • achieved: [research] understanding of libp2p layers and come up with an approach to implement mix as a protocol and also to decouple mix exit node from destination peer
  • next: [research] try to integrate mix with nwaku

Messaging API §

• Messaging API: js-waku
  • achieved:
    • [js-waku] speed up core operations by avoiding PeerStore
    • [js-waku] fix health state management and make it lighter
    • [js-waku] make health state API event driven

Maintenance H1 2025 §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] nwaku<>gowaku interop filter issue
  • [nwaku] Fix too large metrics values
  • [chat] Test new js-waku versions
  • [js-waku] use allure reporting for sds package
• next:
  • [nwaku] v0.35.0 release
  • [nwaku] nwaku<>js-waku interoperability test stabilization
  • [nwaku] Deprecate tree sync strategy
  • [js-waku] js-waku interoperability investigations