2025-07-21 Waku Weekly

Highlights §

• nwaku:
  • Integrate nwaku metrics in status
  • Simplify nwaku-compose’s onboarding process
  • Better nim-chronos knowledge
• js-waku:
  • Optimize Store queries by chunking in 24h ranges max
  • Expose js-waku events from unified source
  • Improve resiliency of js-waku by implementing recovery strategies

Deploy RLN onchain tree on L2 Testnet §

• Implement RLN smart contract for paid, multilevel memberships
  • achieved: [research] verified keystore credentials from rln.waku.org works with nwaku, verified some of the new bigendian zerokit functions, updates to waku-simulator
  • next: [research] verify the rest of the zerokit BE functions, verify nwaku v0.36.0 RLN implementation

Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC
  • achieved:
    • [research] first dogfoodable version of service incentivization PoC achieved
    • [research] research on probabilistic encryption, economic benefit of double spend in micropayment scheme
  • next:
    • [research] improvements based on feedback and more dogfooding for the PoC
    • [research] refine understanding on probabilistic payments

Introduce E2E Reliability in Status Communities §

• SDS protocol in Status - basic integration
  • achieved: [research] finished improvements in nim-sds library to simplify threading requirements for integrators
  • next: [research] help with integration into status-go and start adding features for recovery

Introduce Mixnet For Message Sending §

• Integrate libp2p mix into lightpush
  • next: [research] continue updating chat2 app to be able to publish with mix in order to dogfood mix

Integrate nwaku in status desktop relay mode only §

• Nwaku in Status Desktop
  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] Fix: TestBasicWakuV2
    • [nwaku] Support nwaku metrics

Improve DevEx: API, TWN, Metrics, Docs §

• Introduce Waku API in the Browser

  • achieved:
    • [js-waku] unify Waku events under one source
    • [js-waku] simplify health indicator usage in accordance with the spec
  • next:
    • [js-waku] lightPush v3: determine if light push peer supports v3
    • [js-waku] lightPush v3: add types for new error codes

• Optimise Browser Bootstrapping

  • achieved:
    • [js-waku] maintain set amount of connections
    • [js-waku] fix dialer manager not queueing dial attempts
    • [js-waku] connection manager should mark un-dialable peers
    • [js-waku] expose dialer options from connection manager config
    • [js-waku] refine node recovery strategies and make them configurable
    • [js-waku] prevent drop from bootstrap peers right after connection
  • next:
    • [js-waku] measure and investigate cold/warm bootstrap after recent improvements
    • [js-waku] improve peer exchange by enabling continuous queries to connected peers
    • [js-waku] introduce routing info concept

Create Chat SDK MVP §

• Create Segmentation Library

  • achieved: [chat] add data storage for the segmentation
  • next: [chat] test the segmentation

• Create Rate Limit Manager

  • achieved:
    • [chat] store state
    • [chat] moved bucket to lib
  • next:
    • [chat] persist queue state
    • [chat] finish rate limit deliverable

Maintenance §

• achieved:
  • [js-waku] split Store queries into max 24 hours range
  • [js-waku] release and dogfood
  • [nwaku] Validate Release v0.36.0
  • [nwaku] Avoid too large log lines in rest lightpush
  • [nwaku] Mark keep-alive as deprecated
  • [nwaku] Fix: libwaku received signal
  • [nwaku] Optimize connection proc
  • [nwaku] Update nim library template
  • [nwaku] Fix: req received signal
  • [nwaku] Fix: libsds received signal
  • [nwaku] Not always spawn Windows build on CI
  • [nwaku] nwaku-compose wizard enhancements
  • [nwaku] nwaku-compose simplify register script
  • [nwaku] Better nim-chronos knowledge (raw futures)
• next:
  • [js-waku] fix nwaku interop tests
  • [nwaku] Simplify RLN GroupManager