2025-05-26 Waku Weekly

Highlights §

• nwaku:
  • Fix bug in wakunode2 that prevented to properly enable websocket support.
  • wakucanary app maintenance

RLN Mainnet §

• Implement RLN smart contract for paid, multilevel memberships

  • achieved: [research] initial PR with implementation of nwaku RLN tests
  • next: [research] continue RLN tests in nwaku to also work with the new contract
  • blockers:

• RLNv2 Web management interface

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

Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC
  • achieved: [research] started working on REST API changes for POC integration; wrote a forum post on documtnation challenges
  • next: [research] continue with Lightpush REST API and other integration-related things in the feature branch
  • blockers: [research] no messages in local setup from TWN - will investigate further

Foundation for Communities Optimization §

• Define and implement sharding for Communities messages
  • achieved: [chat] test and fixed moving community shard issues
  • next: [chat] finish testing and dogfood community shards

Acquire first 10 Customers §

• 5-10 Highly qualified leads
  • achieved: https://www.notion.so/Waku-BD-Update-5-19-1ff8f96fb65c80aa8652d11ae2072c78

Explore Peer Discovery Gap §

• Waku Sync
  • achieved: [research] started reviewing Sync specifications
  • next: [research] continue updating specifications

Upgrade Waku for the Web §

• 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

Messaging API §

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

Orphan Deliverables §

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

Maintenance H1 2025 §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] wakucanary maintenance
  • [nwaku] Update Docker file Rust image
  • [nwaku] Enable WebSocket connection also in case only websocket-secure-support enabled
  • [js-waku] enforce particular dependency versions
  • [js-waku] remove noise from nwaku repo interop pipeline
• next:
  • [nwaku] Bump vendor dependencies for release 0.36.0
  • [nwaku] Pass nim_waku_rln_relay_eth_client_addresses as array
  • [nwaku] Adapt nph to Nim 2.2.x and recent nimbus-build-system
  • [nwaku] Enhance health REST API display for Lightpush
  • [nwaku] Review Nim GC performance impact and possible cause crash under memory limitations
  • [nwaku] Move from epoch-based gap to timestamp-based
  • [js-waku] wakuPeerExchangeDiscovery doesn’t prioritize pubsubTopics