2025-09-15 Waku Weekly

Highlights §

• research: detailed forum post on proposed Store service incentivization MVP
• nwaku:
  • Simpler RLN code base
  • Compile status-desktop on Windows with sds integrated

Foundation for Communities Optimization §

• [Deliverable] Define and implement sharding for Communities messages
  • achieved: [chat] merged phase 1 community shards

Hardening and scaling foundations for private chats §

• [Deliverable] Baseline benchmarks
  • achieved: [nwaku] Started mini-app to help hardening (WIP)

Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• [Deliverable] Service Incentivisation - Service incentivisation roadmap & spec
  • achieved:
    • [research] posted a forum post on proposed Store service incentivization MVP (https://forum.vac.dev/t/zk-based-ticket-system-for-store-service-incentivization-mvp/565/7)
    • [research] Research on plug-in feasibility with high throughput L3s for the payment protocol, writing up a detailed post for the custodial payment nodes proposal
  • next:
    • [research] follow up on MVP comments
    • [research] review SI docs & posts, finish proposal, write-up for a comparison of possible approaches and tradeoffs for payment protocol

Introduce E2E Reliability in Status Communities §

• [Deliverable] SDS protocol in Status - basic integration
  • achieved: [nwaku] Compile Status Desktop on Windows, with SDS - https://github.com/waku-org/nim-sds/pull/27
  • next: [nwaku] Make all CI green on status-desktop and status-go, when integrating sds.

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] update improve sender and receiver types
    • [js-waku] implement Send API

Introduce Mixnet For Message Sending §

• [Deliverable] Integrate libp2p mix into lightpush
  • achieved:
    • [research] Merged mix-poc PR after SURB implementation to master
    • [research] Wrote a blog post about Mix implementation in javascript

Create Chat SDK MVP §

• [Deliverable] Chat SDK Developer Preview
  • achieved:
    • [chat] fix and test the nwaku integration
    • [chat research] api callback cleanup
  • next:
    • [chat] fix nwaku nimble build
    • [chat] noise kn
    • [chat research] secrets persistence

RLN Mainnet §

• [Deliverable] Create nim-ffi
  • next:
    • [nwaku] Continue working on opinionated ffi solution demo
      • cleaning up sync calls
      • Support multiple contexts
      • Code gen from protobuf (Rust/C++/Go)

Harden RLN Testnet Deployment §

• Zerokit is used in the Browser for Credentials Management

  • next: [js-waku] upgrade zerokit in @waku/rln

• Minting of (Sepolia) ERC-20 Tokens for RLN Deposits is permissioned

  • achieved: [research] Dogfooding of Minter Role and merged PR for TST token burn Eth when minting
  • next: [research] updates to TST token contract and dogfooding burn Eth when minting functionality

Maintenance §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] Review js-waku interop issues (WIP)
  • [nwaku] Fix: refact rln-relay and post sync test
• next:
  • [js-waku] consolidate headless-tests and browser-tests packages
  • [js-waku] add nwaku-style logs for browser simulations
  • [js-waku] refactor browser simulations package