2025-03-24 Waku Weekly

Internal Hackathon March 2025 §

• Waku sign browser extension poc: Github
• WhisperBox MVP: Github - App
• Waku Phone: Github - App
• Passkey for RLN: Pull Request
• Waku Remote: Github
• WNS: Smart Contract - Server

End-to-end reliability protocol §

• End-to-end reliability protocol - Status integration
  • achieved: [research] still grappling with nim-C-go connectivity. Seems much trickier with callbacks.
  • next: [research] resolve the above and finalize C bindings & wrappers for status-go

RLN Mainnet §

• Implement RLN smart contract for paid, multilevel memberships
  • achieved: [research] clarified scope of the work and registration steps for new contract
  • next: [research] test basic foundry cast steps on deployed contract on testnet

Nwaku in Status Desktop (relay mode) §

• Nwaku on Windows

  • next: [nwaku] CI for windows build

• Nwaku in Status Desktop

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] In status-go, update go-waku vendor
    • [nwaku] In status-go, properly set peerId for store queries

Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC
  • achieved: [research] reputation POC integration into Lightpush merged into a feature branch
  • next: [research] integrate eligibility fields into Lightpush data structures; write a README for the POC

Foundation for Communities Optimization §

• Define and implement sharding for Communities messages
  • achieved: [chat] started implementation of global communities sharding draft
  • next: [chat] test properly phase 1 of global communities sharding

Upgrade Waku for the Web §

• Scalable Data Sync in browser
  • next: [js-waku] create participant state data structures

Logos Web apps §

• Reliable Qaku & library
  • next: [chat] Continue Qaku work

Explore Peer Discovery Gap §

• Waku Sync
  • achieved: [research] investigation and fixes of various bugs
  • next: [research] simulations and more fixes, grafana dashboard

Messaging API §

• Define Messaging API

  • next: [js-waku] improvements and address review comments

• Messaging API: js-waku

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

Maintenance H1 2025 §

• achieved:
  • [js-waku] debug, document and publish next release
  • [js-waku] upgrade release pipeline and remove deprecated dependencies
• next:
  • [nwaku] Prepare release 0.35.0 ( Status fleets )
  • [nwaku] Waku requests rejected by Infura RPC provider as not EIP-155 compliant
  • [nwaku] node does not start with RLN in on-chain dynamic mode 2
  • [nwaku] deprecate current RLN sync strategy
  • [js-waku] dogfood use of yamux instead of mplex
  • [js-waku] js-waku interoperability flakiness investigation