2025-05-19 Waku Weekly

Highlights §

• nwaku:
  • Allow multiple RLN rpc clients and RLN bug fix passing userMessageLimit.
  • Enhance error feedback in wakunode2 app and libwaku.
• js-waku:
  • SDS example published in https://github.com/waku-org/lab.waku.org/tree/master/examples/sds-demo

RLN Mainnet §

• Implement RLN smart contract for paid, multilevel memberships

  • achieved: [research] completed nwaku PR with implementation of new contract functionality (with merged merkle deprecation)
  • next: [research] update RLN tests in nwaku to also work with the new contract
  • blockers:

• RLNv2 Web management interface

  • next: [js-waku] refine work with membership info and other meta information
  • blockers: [js-waku] update nwaku-compose

Foundation for Communities Optimization §

• Define and implement sharding for Communities messages
  • achieved: [chat] publishing communities in own shard
  • next: [chat] test communities in own shard thoroughly,

Acquire first 10 Customers §

• 5-10 Highly qualified leads
  • achieved:
    • [chat] planned Logos Cell Meetup in Brno
    • [chat] planned Pizza Party Brno (part of Global Pizza Party 2025)
    • [BD] Ethereum’s Open Intent Framework
      • Asked Nico from the EF for a contact
      • Reached out to Josh Rudolf
      • Aasked for materials and I sent the explanation series and docs
    • [BD] Deal updates
      • The russian monero atomic swap project is confirmed to be using waku on their alpha release
      • Miden is getting closer to starting working on the use case we have been discussing, we will chat in a couple months when they have everything else ready
      • Rarimo redesigned <freedomtool.org> which uses waku now but they are focusing on zkml
        • Trying to understand if waku can be of use in that vertical as well and want to expedite a partnership announcement
        • Rarimo has an interesting ecosystem in their L2 and will be trying to get in touch with those projects through them
      • Chromar is talking directly with Eliza, trying to push for an announcement with the 2 companies and amplified by Eliza as soon as they get out of stealth

Hardening and scaling foundations for private chats §

• Specify private chat protocol
  • achieved: [chat] draft the segmentation logic in chat sdk
  • next: [chat] more tests on segmentation

Upgrade Waku for the Web §

• Scalable Data Sync in browser

  • achieved: [js-waku] publish SDS example

• Improved browser bootstrap

  • next:
    • [js-waku] introduce monitor and notification on fleet being down or WSS not working
    • [js-waku] maintain set amount of connections

• Browser simulations

  • next: [js-waku] dockerized server for simulating js-waku in headless browser

Logos Web apps §

• Web3 RPC fallback for service nodes
  • achieved: [nwaku] Allow multiple rln eth clients

Messaging API §

• Messaging API: js-waku
  • achieved: [js-waku] event based Filter API
  • next:
    • [js-waku] implement Messaging Storage API first iteration
    • [js-waku] improve messaging types and sharding
    • [js-waku] dogfood fixed event based Filter API
    • [js-waku] fix validation to allow store query by hash

Orphan Deliverables §

• Nim C library guide
  • next: [nwaku] Initial implementation

Maintenance H1 2025 §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] Enhance feedback on error CLI
  • [nwaku] Enhance error msgs libwaku
  • [nwaku] Properly pass userMessageLimit to OnchainGroupManager
  • [js-waku] dependencies security review
• next:
  • [nwaku] Bump vendor dependencies for release 0.36.0
  • [nwaku] Fix nwaku does not relay lightpush message with peers in the mesh (Currently not reproducible)
  • [nwaku] Adapt lite-protocol-tester for Lightpush v3
  • [nwaku] RLN move from epoch based gap to timestamp based
  • [js-waku] enforce particular dependency versions
  • [js-waku] wakuPeerExchangeDiscovery doesn’t prioritize pubsubTopics
  • [js-waku] replace deprecated websocket filters with connection gater
  • [js-waku] make README more useful for contributors
• blockers:
  • [js-waku] use yamux instead of mplex