2025-06-02 Waku Weekly

Highlights §

• nwaku:
  • First Nim C guide completed
  • Recover heaptrack for nwaku memory analysis
  • Bumped vendor dependencies to prepare for v0.36

End-to-end reliability protocol §

• End-to-end reliability protocol - Status integration
  • achieved: [research] merged first version of nim-sds library and sds-go-bindings; initiated integration
  • next: [research] review nim-sds implementation and update backend to latest spec version

RLN Mainnet §

• Implement RLN smart contract for paid, multilevel memberships

  • achieved: [research] ongoing work to implement RLN test to work with new contract
  • next: [research] continue with above and chnage nwaku keystore generator to use BigEndian instead of LE

• RLNv2 Web management interface

  • next: [js-waku] idCommitmentBigInt generated are some times rejected by the contract
  • blockers: [js-waku] update nwaku-compose

Nwaku in Status Desktop (relay mode) §

• Nwaku in Status Desktop
  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] Rebased, fixed, tested and merged initial nwaku integration into status-go (PR)
    • [nwaku] Expose online state in libwaku
    • [nwaku] Override json unmarshaller
    • [nwaku] Use camelCase in the store query json
    • [nwaku] Fix binding tests
    • [nwaku] Integrate waku_is_online function

Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC
  • achieved: [research] ongoing work on REST API modifications
  • next: [research] initialize EligibilityManager and check eligibility on Lightpush request
  • blockers: [research] Lightpush not working in local setup (investigating) - described to nwaku team

Foundation for Communities Optimization §

• Define and implement sharding for Communities messages
  • next: [chat] presolve and merge stage 1 to targeting status desktop 2.35

Acquire first 10 Customers §

• 5-10 Highly qualified leads
  • achieved:
    • [chat] ETHPrague, W3PN meetup, ProtoLayers prep mostly
    • [chat] Save the Songs campaign help
    • [bd] https://www.notion.so/Waku-BD-Update-5-26-2068f96fb65c806eb47fe6e9b7742799

Hardening and scaling foundations for private chats §

• Global Network Metrics

  • next: [nwaku] Expand Waku Prometheus metrics

• Specify private chat protocol

  • achieved: [chat] abstract segment data storage interface,

Upgrade Waku for the Web §

• Improved browser bootstrap

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

• Browser simulations

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

Logos Web apps §

• Reliable Qaku & library
  • achieved:
    • [chat] Qaku improvements
    • [chat] Launched Podex https://forum.logos.co/t/podex-dont-let-anyone-tell-you-what-you-can-share/407
  • next: [chat] Continue quaku improvements

Messaging API §

• Messaging API: js-waku
  • achieved: [js-waku] improve messaging types and sharding
  • next: [js-waku] implement Messaging Storage API first iteration

Orphan Deliverables §

• Nim C library guide
  • achieved: [nwaku] Completed first version of guide, library template and go-bindings example commit1, commit2, commit3

Maintenance H1 2025 §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] Bump vendor dependencies for release 0.36.0
  • [nwaku] Don’t return error on double relay subscription/unsubscription
  • [js-waku] enable peer-exchange by default and introduce new settings
• next:
  • [nwaku] fix: relay unsubscribe
  • [nwaku] Pass nim_waku_rln_relay_eth_client_addresses as array
  • [nwaku] Enhance health REST API display for Lightpush
  • [nwaku] Study nim-gc performance effect and possible cause crash under limited memory conditions
  • [js-waku] get back to dependency versions