2025-08-04 Waku Weekly

Highlights §

• nwaku:
  • Add shard-specific metrics
  • Enhance regex on http urls (external contribution.)

Deploy RLN onchain tree on L2 Testnet §

• Implement RLN smart contract for paid, multilevel memberships
  • achieved: [research] working on verification of RLN contract with new nwaku release
  • next: [research] implementing strategies for better membership management for the RLN contract on testnet

Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC
  • achieved: [research] simpler PoC setup instructions, more dogfooding, a blog post drafted
  • next: [research] finalize the blog post, demo the POC at PM calls and townhall (when scheduled)

Integrate nwaku in status desktop relay mode only §

• Nwaku in Status Desktop
  • next: [nwaku] Create StatusDesktop nwaku-powered image that can be used by QA

Introduce E2E Reliability in Status Communities §

• SDS protocol in Status - basic recovery
  • achieved: [research] working on retrieval hint implementation in sds-go-bindings, addressing review comments on nim-sds PR
    • [chat] refactor and test the SDS implementation
  • next: [research] continue working on sds-go-bindings retrieval hint

Improve DevEx: API, TWN, Metrics, Docs §

• Global Network Metrics

  • achieved: [nwaku] Add shard-specific metrics

• Introduce Waku API in the Browser

  • 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

  • next:
    • [js-waku] measure and investigate cold/warm bootstrap after recent improvements
    • [js-waku] improve peer exchange by enabling continuous queries to connected peers

Introduce Mixnet For Message Sending §

• Integrate libp2p mix into lightpush
  • achieved: [research] working on nwaku PRs and chat2 app simulation scripts.
  • next: [research] reviewing of mix protocol PRs

Create Chat SDK MVP §

• Create Rate Limit Manager
  • achieved: [chat] rate limit persist queued messages

Upgrade Nim Usage §

• Create nim-ffi
  • next: [nwaku] Create fundamental nim-ffi repository that extracts the current libwaku logic.

Maintenance §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] Apply modulus in sharding
  • [nwaku] Use counter instead of gauge metrics
  • [nwaku] Update regex to support username:password in http urls
  • [nwaku] Simplify group manager implementation
• next:
  • [js-waku] bloom filter protobuf bug
  • [nwaku] Deploy v0.36.0 in Status fleet
  • [nwaku] Remove unneeded RLN code
  • [nwaku] Update nwaku-compose readme and wizard
  • [nwaku] Add heaptrack support description
  • [nwaku] Opening PR for Nim compiler code lib to support Heaptrack.