2025-03-10 Waku Weekly

Store Service Upgrade §

• DOS protection for req-res protocols and metrics
  • next:
    • [nwaku] Measure impact between req-resp protocols, PR
    • [nwaku] Finalize tests as a single docker compose setup with lite-protocol-tester and sonda-tool to stress all protocols in a single node parallel. Make measurements.

Direct Message Reliability §

• Reliability Protocol for Resource-Restricted Clients
  • achieved: [nwaku] Implementation lightpush v3, PR

End-to-end reliability protocol §

• End-to-end reliability protocol - Status integration
  • achieved: [research] continued Reliability manager integration and wrappers for status-go
  • next: [research] merge reliability manager into library, continue status-go integration

RLN Mainnet §

• Implement RLN smart contract for paid, multilevel memberships

  • achieved: [research] updates to RLN contract tests (PR on the way)
  • next: [research] continue with updates to RLN contract registration tools in nwaku

• RLNv2 Web management interface

  • achieved:
    • [js-waku] migrate to RLNv2 contract
    • [js-waku] implement wallet authentication & connection web app
    • [js-waku] develop RLNv2 membership registration flow part 1
  • next: [js-waku] develop RLNv2 membership registration flow part 2

Nwaku in Status Desktop (relay mode) §

• Nwaku on Windows

  • achieved: [nwaku] Refine windows documentation
  • next:
    • [nwaku] chore: CI for windows build
    • [nwaku] Deprecate sync strategy
    • [nwaku] bug: Waku requests rejected by Infura RPC provider - not EIP-155 compliant
    • [nwaku] bug: node won’t start with RLN in on-chain dynamic mode

• Nwaku in Status Desktop

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] fix: using nimMainPrefix in libwaku
    • [nwaku] Fix status-go with nwaku linux build
    • [nwaku] Got status-desktop with nwaku to work on linux
    • [nwaku] Run nwaku make update automatically in waku-go-bindings
  • next:
    • [nwaku] Finish fixing failures in CI, go over the changes and clean them, and open PR for review in status-go
    • [nwaku] Fix issue building nwaku from status-go’s makefile on MacOS

Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC
  • achieved: [research] started reputation POC integration into Lightpush and opened for review
  • next: [research] use config flag instead of compilation flag; figure out POC integration with Lightpush v3

Hardening and scaling foundations for private chats §

• Specify private chat protocol

  • achieved:
    • [chat] MVDS documentation
    • [chat] PoC communicates with a Status for one-to-one here
  • next: [chat] Finish documenting private control messages

• Private chat rate limit PoC

  • next: [chat] rate limit data store

Upgrade Waku for the Web §

• Scalable Data Sync in browser
  • achieved: [js-waku] implement periodic maintenance tasks for incoming and outgoing buffers
  • next:
    • [js-waku] create participant state data structures
    • [js-waku] implement logic for sending and receiving sync messages

Logos Web apps §

• Reliable Qaku & library
  • achieved: [chat] Qakulib is working well, updated js-waku in prod Qaku.app to support Town hall usage
  • next: [chat] continue Quakulib

Explore Peer Discovery Gap §

• Waku Sync
  • blockers: [research] waiting for nwaku deployment to fleets for integration testing

Debugging Tools §

• Status Local Metrics
  • achieved: [chat] rebase and merge metrics PRs 1 2

Messaging API §

• Define Messaging API

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

• Messaging API: js-waku

  • achieved: [js-waku] event based Filter SDK
  • next: [js-waku] Encoder/Decoder API revamp

Maintenance H1 2025 §

• achieved: [nwaku] v0.35.0 deployed in waku fleets and nwaku-compose
• next:
  • [nwaku] v0.35.0 deployed in status fleets
  • [js-waku] investigate use of yamux instead of mplex
  • [js-waku] debug, document and publish next release
  • [js-waku] upgrade release pipeline and remove deprecated dependencies
  • [js-waku] js-waku interoperability flakiness investigation
• blockers: [js-waku] flakiness of interop CI