2025-08-18 Waku Weekly

Highlights §

• nwaku:
  • Evolved the nim-ffi approach (WIP)
• js-waku:
  • released js-waku sdk 0.0.34
  • improve peer exchange and local peer cache

Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC

  • achieved: [research] PoC Townhall presentation
  • next: [research] publish the POC blog post when visuals are ready
  • blockers: [research] status still unclear for diagram production for the blog post (⁠Logos⁠)

• Service Incentivisation - Service incentivisation roadmap & spec

  • achieved:
    • [research] discussed MVP roadmap, outlined a “pre-spec” https://www.notion.so/Store-Service-Incentivisation-Pre-Spec-2508f96fb65c8066bacbf3649b5d23d3
    • [research] new blog post on scope, first draft store i13n spec
    • [research] started reviewing current Incentivisation material
  • next:
    • [research] continue discussions around MVP specification
    • [research] refine spec
    • [research] continue reviewing, draft a broader requirements doc for SI & open questions for the payments system design

Improve DevEx: API, TWN, Metrics, Docs §

• 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

  • achieved:
    • [js-waku] improve peer exchange by enabling continuous queries to connected peers
    • [js-waku] improve peer exchange speed time
    • [js-waku] refine local peer exchange discovery and heuristics

• Introduce Waku API in nwaku

  • achieved: [research] Analyzed mix for browsers from implementation perspective (if it has to be implemented in js-waku)
  • blockers: [research] Still waiting for SURB implementation from p2p team

Create Chat SDK MVP §

• Create Segmentation Library
  • achieved:
    • [chat] use SDS to confirm message is sent
    • [chat] test the SDS in public and token gated communities on macos
  • blockers:
    • [chat] implement SDS in Go or bindings to work on windows and mobile?

Formalize and Expand Waku Web Apps §

• Forum PoC
  • achieved:
    • [chat] relevance index system
    • [chat] sorting controls (new/top)
  • next:
    • [chat] verify delegation signatures verification, wallet signature verification, author address against delegation
    • [chat] allow anonymous engagement
    • [chat] bookmarks
    • [chat] callsign/nicknames
    • [chat] localstorage -> indexedDB

Upgrade Nim Usage §

• Create nim-ffi
  • next:
    • [nwaku] Create fundamental nim-ffi repository that extracts the current libwaku logic.
    • [nwaku] Have an opinionated ffi solution demo with protobuf and auto de/marshalling

Harden RLN Testnet Deployment §

• Minting of (Sepolia) ERC-20 Tokens for RLN Deposits is permissioned
  • achieved: [research] Local testing of Add minter-role to TST and TST Proxy contract WIP
  • next: [research] continue with TST Proxy contract workflow checks and start dogfooding

Maintenance §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] Update nim-dnsdisc
  • [nwaku] Compile-time error bypass in nim-serialization
  • [js-waku] prepare new release and dogfood
  • [js-waku] improve reliability of health events
  • [js-waku] prevent emission of uncaught rejected Promises
  • [js-waku] ensure peer exchange works in E2E tests
  • [js-waku] prevent overwriting shard info from peer exchange
• next:
  • [nwaku] Remove off-chain tree
  • [nwaku] Resolve bump dependencies for v0.37