2025-04-07 Waku Weekly

End-to-end reliability protocol §

EDC: 2025-06-30

• End-to-end reliability protocol - Status integration
  • achieved: [research] Updated the bindings and got wrap and unwrap working in go using the nim-sds bindings and the corresponding go wrapper implementation.
  • next: [research] resolve outstanding segmentation issues with callbacks test to complete the bindings & go wrapper part

RLN Mainnet §

EDC: 2025-06-30

• Implement RLN smart contract for paid, multilevel memberships

  • achieved: [research] work on fixing fleet being down after membership DoS attack
  • next: [research] testing registration for new contract with on-chain merkle proofs PR, will have another look into hacking together keystore in bash implementation

• Testnet L2 with on-chain tree

  • next: [nwaku] deprecate sync / local merkle tree

• RLNv2 Web management interface

  • achieved: [js-waku] develop RLNv2 membership registration flow
  • next:
    • [js-waku] improve compatibility of keystore implementations
    • [js-waku] deploy interface to rln.waku.org
    • [js-waku] update docs

Nwaku in Status Desktop (relay mode) §

EDC: 2025-05-30

• Nwaku in Status Desktop
  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] add waku_get_connected_peers_info to libwaku
    • [nwaku] waku_relay_get_peers_in_mesh to libwaku
    • [nwaku] add waku_relay_get_connected_peers to libwaku
    • [nwaku] integrating waku_relay_get_peers_in_mesh
    • [nwaku] integrating waku_relay_get_connected_peers
    • [nwaku] integrating libwaku’s waku_get_connected_peers_info
    • [nwaku] removing unused store functions

Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

EDC: 2025-04-30

• Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC
  • achieved: [research] service incentivization POC
  • next: [research] same line of work continued (https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3318)

Foundation for Communities Optimization §

EDC: 2025-04-07

• Define and implement sharding for Communities messages
  • achieved: [chat] testing dedicated shards
  • next: [chat] migration plan for dedicated shards

Hardening and scaling foundations for private chats §

EDC: TBD

• Private chat rate limit PoC
  • achieved:
    • [chat] discussios onn kv store PR next steps with Status
    • [chat] rate limit config UI changes for status-desktop
  • next:
    • [chat] split the status-go PR to only include kv store and document it
    • [chat] API for status-desktop to retrieve the kv store

Upgrade Waku for the Web §

EDC: 2025-04-18

• Scalable Data Sync in browser
  • achieved: [js-waku] example app development
  • next:
    • [js-waku] create participant state data structures
    • [js-waku] process all messages synchronously

Explore Peer Discovery Gap §

EDC: 2025-06-30

• Mixnet PoC
  • achieved: [research] implemented mix metrics and fixed some issues in mix and waku-mix integration code, ran a 10 node simulation with waku-simulator by publishing 10K messages
  • next: [research] continue simulations to identify and fix issues, code cleanup

Messaging API §

EDC: 2025-12-19

• Define Messaging API

  • next: [js-waku] next iteration of reviews on RFC proposal

• Messaging API: js-waku

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

Maintenance H1 2025 §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] Patch release v0.35.1
  • [nwaku] better keystore management
• next:
  • [nwaku] retrieve protocols in new added peer from discv5
  • [js-waku] wrapping up js-waku interoperability with nwaku 0.35