2025-06-09 Waku Weekly

Highlights §

• nwaku:
  • Add extra debug helper in REST via getting peer statistics
  • Integrate waku_disconnect_all_peers operation in waku-go-bindings
  • Fix relay unsubscribe

End-to-end reliability protocol §

• End-to-end reliability protocol - Status integration
  • achieved: [chat] draft sds integration in status-go
  • next: [chat] test the sds in status desktop app, discuss the feature release plan.

RLN Mainnet §

• Implement RLN smart contract for paid, multilevel memberships

  • achieved: [research] progress on nwaku RLN tests and onchain group_manager error handling
  • next: [research] Fix tests not passing on github jobs
  • blockers: [research] need to finalise decision on using BE or LE for the crendentials

• 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] Add waku_disconnect_all_peers to libwaku
    • [nwaku] Expose additional nwaku configurations
    • [nwaku] Integrate waku_disconnect_all_peers
    • [nwaku] Complete missing TODOs in status-go’s nwaku.go
  • next:
    • [nwaku] Allow metrics from libwaku
    • [nwaku] Start working on running status-go with nwaku on Windows
    • [nwaku] Superficial performance comparison between Status Desktop using go-waku vs go-waku and perform small adjustments

Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC
  • achieved: [research] proof of payment verification is working in local Lightpush setup
  • next: [research] introduce proper config items for expected address and amount; write dogfooding instructions

Acquire first 10 Customers §

• 5-10 Highly qualified leads
  • achieved:
    • [chat] vibe coded Waku Trollbox at a live-stream
    • [chat] small updates to Lope (notes) based on potential user request :) https://forum.logos.co/t/lope-your-private-notes-app/421/4?u=vpavlin
    • [chat] prepared one talk
    • [chat] Facilitated conversation between OpenADP, Waku and TACo
    • [chat] Discussion with https://onldust.com/
  • next:
    • [chat] Devconf (prep a workshop)
    • [chat] Logos Circles Brno (prep a talk + finalize the meetup prep)

Upgrade Waku for the Web §

• Scalable Data Sync in browser

  • achieved: [js-waku] query with hash for message retrieval
  • next: [js-waku] process all messages synchronously

• Improved browser bootstrap

  • achieved: [js-waku] dogfood changes to connection manager
  • next: [js-waku] improve dialing recurrence and API

Explore Peer Discovery Gap §

• Waku Sync
  • achieved: [research] opened improved specifications for review
  • next: [research] address review comments and publish amended specs

Messaging API §

• Define Messaging API

  • next: [js-waku] address last iteration comments

• Messaging API: js-waku

  • next: [js-waku] implement Messaging Storage API first iteration

Orphan Deliverables §

• Create MVP ChatSDK

  • achieved: [chat] skeleton app in nim
  • next: [chat] continue with sdk

• Create Segmentation Library

  • achieved: [chat] FURPS

Maintenance H1 2025 §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] Fix relay unsubscribe
  • [nwaku] Adapt nph to Nim 2.2.x
  • [nwaku] Fix dnsresolver
  • [nwaku] Add extra debug helper in REST via getting peer statistics
  • [nwaku] Reached a conclusion regarding possible filter issue in Status. Testing filter with go-waku didn’t show any issue and messages were properly sent to the go-waku filter client.
  • [js-waku] get back to dependency versions
• next:
  • [nwaku] Pass nim_waku_rln_relay_eth_client_addresses as array
  • [nwaku] Fix waku-simulator connectivity issue after vendor-bumping
  • [nwaku] bug: nwaku does not relay lightpush message with peers in the mesh