2025-08-25 Waku Weekly

Highlights §

• research: Blog post on first steps towards incentivisation
• js-waku: released browser bootstrap optimizations

Foundation for Communities Optimization §

• [Deliverable] Define and implement sharding for Communities messages
  • achieved: [chat] fix conflicts with PRs https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/6573 https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/6588
  • next: [chat] merge prs add tests

Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• [Deliverable] Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC

  • achieved: [research] blog post published (https://blog.waku.org/first-steps-toward-incentivising-waku-2/)

• [Deliverable] Service Incentivisation - Service incentivisation roadmap & spec

  • achieved:
    • [research] discussed the “pre-spec” https://www.notion.so/Store-Service-Incentivisation-Pre-Spec-2508f96fb65c8066bacbf3649b5d23d3
    • [research] early draft for the payment protocol
  • next:
    • [research] continue discussion, iterate on the document above based on comments
    • [research] review SI docs & posts. Refine and extend the payment protocol draft.

Introduce E2E Reliability in Status Communities §

• [Deliverable] SDS protocol in Status - basic integration
  • achieved:
    • [research] working on enabling file based logging for ALL nim-sds logs
    • [nwaku] Progress building in status-go CI for Linux/Mac
  • next:
    • [research] finalize and raise PR for error logging to file
    • [nwaku] Adapt nim-sds for Android/iOS/Windows

Improve DevEx: API, TWN, Metrics, Docs §

• [Deliverable] Introduce Waku API in the Browser

  • next:
    • [js-waku] introduce Codec entity
    • [js-waku] messaging storage
    • [js-waku] improve types of LightPush / Filter
    • [js-waku] lightPush v3: determine if light push peer supports v3
    • [js-waku] lightPush v3: add types for new error codes

• [Deliverable] 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

Harden RLN Testnet Deployment §

• Minting of (Sepolia) ERC-20 Tokens for RLN Deposits is permissioned
  • achieved: [research] Updates to TST contract - proxy and minter role
  • next: [research] dogfood once PR is approved

Maintenance §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] Fix detach partitions
  • [nwaku] Unite all token_bucket implementation into single place under nim-chronos
  • [js-waku] enable start/stop for Filter
  • [js-waku] optimize health events for too frequent peer events case
  • [js-waku] enforce order by access modifier
• next:
  • [mwaku] Bump dependencies for v0.37.0
  • [nwaku] Remove off-chain tree