2025-04-21 Waku Weekly

Highlights §

• research: published some Waku Mix basic benchmarking results
• nwaku:
  • Initial sds-go-bindings version almost completed
  • Progress in the enrichment of REST information
  • Timestamp is always valid when publishing a message

End-to-end reliability protocol §

• End-to-end reliability protocol - Status integration
  • achieved: [research] fixed the issue with callbacks not working with bindings - https://github.com/waku-org/nim-sds/pull/8
  • next:
    • [research] proceed with status-go integration with the now-working bindings & go wrapper
    • [nwaku] Refactor libsds to match libwaku’s architecture
    • [nwaku] Initial sds-go-bindings implementation

RLN Mainnet §

• Implement RLN smart contract for paid, multilevel memberships

  • achieved: [research] early implementation of updated registration and contract updates in nwaku with local merkle tree
  • next: [research] verify RLN msg validation and proofs for the new contract using updated abi

• RLNv2 Web management interface

  • achieved:
    • [js-waku] deploy to rln.waku.org
    • [js-waku] finalize integration of RLNv2 smart contraction interaction APIs
    • [js-waku] implement UI & UX enhancements, clean up package
    • [js-waku] credentials should have aliases
  • next: [js-waku] update nwaku-compose docs

Nwaku in Status Desktop (relay mode) §

• Nwaku in Status Desktop
  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] fix: store query by hash
    • [nwaku] Update go-waku
    • [nwaku] Update status-go

Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC
  • achieved: [research] (WIP) local Lightpush setup for POC integration
  • next: [research] continue POC integration
  • blockers: [research] node crash when setting up the Lightpush setup

Hardening and scaling foundations for private chats §

• Private chat rate limit PoC
  • achieved: [chat] refactored the kv store PR, and more discussion on it

Upgrade Waku for the Web §

• Scalable Data Sync in browser

  • achieved:
    • [js-waku] add optional support for ephemeral messages
    • [js-waku] update causal history and local log to include retrieval hint
  • next:
    • [js-waku] create participant state data structures
    • [js-waku] process all messages synchronously

• Improved browser bootstrap

  • achieved:
    • [js-waku] implement fleet websocket monitoring CI
    • [js-waku] websockets do not work in nodejs environment
    • [js-waku] js-waku fails to send in nodejs env

• Browser simulations

  • next: [js-waku] working on tools for running tests against js-waku running in the browser

Logos Web apps §

• Reliable Qaku & library

  • achieved:
    • [chat] re-integrated Codex snapshots to Qakulib
    • [chat] started new UI integration
  • next: [chat] get to feature parity with old UI

• Forum PoC

  • achieved:
    • [chat] bootstrap a UI for OpChan
    • [chat] integrate js-waku in OpChan, can create items if verified, otherwise view only
  • next:
    • [chat] replace mocked wallet connections with actual implementation
    • [chat] other nice-to-haves: access control, local storage, anti-spam, SDS, moderation
  • blockers: [chat] replace BTC Ordinal verification with an API for robogod

Explore Peer Discovery Gap §

• Mixnet PoC
  • achieved: [research] code refactor and cleanup, initial Mxinet simulations with lightpush results summary

Debugging Tools §

• Status Local Metrics
  • achieved: [chat] book slot and prepare for the local metrics demo

Messaging API §

• Define Messaging API

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

• Messaging API: js-waku

  • next:
    • [js-waku] improve messaging types and sharding
    • [js-waku] dogfooding event based Filter SDK

Maintenance H1 2025 §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] Always set timestamp to now in publish
  • [nwaku] fix: libwaku’s redundant allocs
  • [nwaku] fix: wrong comments and broken link
  • [js-waku] non breaking dependencies security review
  • [js-waku] node health interface fixes
  • [js-waku] createDecoder ignores malformed SingleShardInfo and falls back to autosharding
  • [js-waku] lightpush retry uses the same remote peer
  • [js-waku] HealthManager does not seem to work
  • [js-waku] fix lab.waku.org CI and update dogfooding app
  • [js-waku] update interop docs for debugging
• next:
  • [js-waku] enable peer-exchange by default for LightNode
  • [nwaku] Investigate filter misbehavior in status-mobile. Tested locally with status-backend and could not replicate the issue.
  • [nwaku] Enhance REST /admin/v1/peers endpoint for better debug support
    • Enhance REST peer statistics
    • Additional information in REST relay