2025-02-24 Waku Weekly

Direct Message Reliability §

• Reliability Protocol for Resource-Restricted Clients
  • achieved: [research] published new specification for P2P reliability in Waku
  • next:
    • [nwaku] implementation of the new lightpush protocol version https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2722
      • lightpush v2
      • libp2p extension

End-to-end reliability protocol §

• End-to-end reliability protocol - Status integration
  • achieved: [research] some comments on new PR for reliability manager, started exploring API integration with status-go, spec improvements for causal history, periodic sync messages
  • next: [research] merge ongoing PRs, implement spec changes

Scale up number of Communities §

• DoS protection for req-res protocols and metrics (go-waku as service node)
  • next:
    • [nwaku] Measure impact between protocols
      • Measure cross performance of req-res protocols in specific usage conditions.
      • Non-relay protocols cross performance measurement

RLN Mainnet §

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

Nwaku in Status Desktop (relay mode) §

• Nwaku on Windows

  • next:
    • [nwaku] Simplify the compilation procedure

• Nwaku in Status Desktop

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] Move types to common package
    • [nwaku] Not exit program when a libwaku call fails
    • [nwaku] enhance libwaku error handling
    • [nwaku] First testing of nwaku in status-desktop on Linux. Before, MacOS only.
  • next: [nwaku] Get status-desktop with nwaku to run properly on linux.

Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC
  • achieved: [research] partially implemented client-side reputation for the POC
  • next: [research] continue with the above

Foundation for Communities Optimization §

• Define and implement sharding for Communities messages
  • achieved: [research] initial sharding specification for Communities merged
  • next: [research] define message-specific functional scope, continue reworking the Communities spec

Hardening and scaling foundations for private chats §

• Specify private chat protocol
  • achieved: [chat] edge nodes and shards documentation
  • next: [chat] one-to-one flows doc/poc

Upgrade Waku for the Web §

• Scalable Data Sync in browser
  • achieved:
    • [js-waku] implement logic for tracking sent messages
    • [js-waku] implement logic for tracking received messages
    • [js-waku] support converting bloom filter between bytes and arrays of bigint
  • next: [js-waku] implement periodic maintenance tasks for incoming and outgoing buffers

Debugging Tools §

• Status Local Metrics

  • achieved: [chat] refactor the status-go metrics PR
  • next: [chat] help merge the status-go metrics PR and missing metrics collection

• Local Metrics Dashboard

  • achieved:
    • [chat] test and improve the instructions to run metrics infra locally, PR
    • [chat] draft the local dashboard requirements based on roadmap, doc

Messaging API §

• Define Messaging API

  • next: [js-waku] publish rfc covering event based API and basic capabilities

• Messaging API: js-waku

  • achieved:
    • [js-waku] improve lightPush error handling
    • [js-waku] implement background retries for lightPush

Maintenance H1 2025 §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] Analyse REST issues with lightpush in collaboration with DST.
• next:
  • [nwaku] better metrics usage
  • [nwaku] complete release v0.35.0
  • [nwaku] js-waku - nwaku interoperability test stabilization
  • [js-waku] js-waku interoperability flakiness investigation