2025-06-30 Waku Weekly

Highlights §

• nwaku:
  • Improve keep alive algorithm in status integration
  • Implement watchdog feature in libwaku
• js-waku:
  • Release new js-waku

End-to-end reliability protocol §

• End-to-end reliability protocol - Status integration
  • achieved:
    • [chat] help fix the segmentation layer decode error for sds wrapped message
    • [chat] discussed the changes for sds unwrap API

RLN Mainnet §

• 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 on Windows

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] Got waku-go-bindings and libwaku to work in Windows
  • next:
    • [nwaku] Get status-desktop with nwaku to work on Windows
  • blockers:

• Nwaku in Status Desktop

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] chore: improve keep alive
    • [nwaku] opened PR allowing building status-desktop with status-go’s nwaku version (with that merged we’ll be able to have it in the CI) Support nwaku compilation
    • [nwaku] feat: integrate metrics in waku-go-bindings
    • [nwaku] Remove deprecated DnsDiscoveryNameServers config in waku-go-bindings
  • next:
    • [nwaku] Add missing nwaku features
    • [nwaku] Integrate metrics in status-desktop
    • [nwaku] Check circuit-relay feature

Hardening and scaling foundations for private chats §

• Private chat rate limit PoC
  • achieved: [chat] implement comments on rate limit pr
  • next: [chat] further comments and merge

Upgrade Waku for the Web §

• Improved browser bootstrap

  • next:
    • [js-waku] improve dialing recurrence and API
    • [js-waku] revisit connection pruning and management

• Browser simulations

  • blockers: [js-waku] waiting for the feedback on js-waku Docker image

Messaging API §

• Messaging API: js-waku
  • achieved: - [js-waku] fix schedule retry lightPush when no peer available
  • next:
    • [js-waku] enforce peer selection across protocols
    • [js-waku] improve peer codec matching for Filter
    • [js-waku] implement Messaging Storage API first iteration

Acquire first 10 Customers §

• 5-10 Highly qualified leads
  • achieved: [bd] weekly update

Maintenance H1 2025 §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] Add libwaku watchdog
  • [nwaku] test: include all factory tests
  • [nwaku] chore: rename libwaku modules
  • [nwaku] fix: libwaku.so compilation
  • [js-waku] release js-waku
• next:
  • [nwaku] Release v0.36.0
  • [js-waku] remove deprecated Filter implementation