2025-09-29 Waku Weekly

Highlights §

• nwaku: Deprecate rln-relay-tree-path cli argument in wakunode2 app

Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• [Deliverable] Service Incentivisation - Service incentivisation roadmap & spec
  • achieved:
    • [research] published notion doc for the custodial payment nodes proposal
    • [research] ongoing discussion to integrate ZK tickets with probabilistic payments and address double spending
  • next: [research] 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
  • blockers: [nwaku] Make status-desktop and status-go CI green has been paused because status-go is stopping using vendor folder and usual go get approach. We will resume this task upon unlocking.

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] identified issues during dogfooding with TWN. fixes for the same.
  • next: [research] work on using rendezvous discovery to discover mix nodes as ENR size limits are being hit with mix being enabled

Create Chat SDK MVP §

• [Deliverable] Chat SDK Developer Preview
  • achieved:
    • [chat-research] migrated POC to nimbus-build-system
    • [chat-research] Demo echo bot deployed

Formalize and Expand Waku Web Apps §

• [Deliverable] Forum PoC

  • achieved: [chat] extracted library out of opchan (opchan.app uses this library)

• [Deliverable] Reliable Qaku & library

  • achieved: [chat] SCALA - Secure CALendar App - https://preview—sync-shards-cal.lovable.app/ https://forum.logos.co/t/scala-secure-calendar-app/1355

Acquire first 10 Customers §

• [Deliverable] 5-10 Highly qualified leads
  • achieved: [chat] Many useful connections at Cypherpunk Retreat (Brave, Tor, FtC, Internet Archive…)

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 Burns Sepolia Eth

  • achieved: [research] Update to TST token contract to fix initiliasation at deployment
  • next: [research] merge the above contract and deploy for dogfooding

Maintenance §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] deprecate tree_path and rlnDB
  • [js-waku] move waku/react to main monorepo
• next:
  • [nwaku] Use stream close consistently
  • [nwaku] Fix nwaku returns invalid message JSON when contentTopic contains backslashes
  • [nwaku] Nim heaptrack support
    • https://github.com/NagyZoltanPeter/Nim/tree/pr_heaptrack_support
    • Test solution under different conditions.
  • [nwaku] Use smart contract userMessageLimit function
  • [js-waku] consolidate headless-tests and browser-tests packages
  • [js-waku] add nwaku-style logs for browser simulations
  • [js-waku] refactor browser simulations package
  • [js-waku] update docs, remove redundant
• blockers:
  • [nwaku] unite all token_bucket implementation into single place under nim-chronos
    • https://github.com/status-im/nim-chronos/pull/582 is done
    • https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3554 draft till chronos changes accepted
    • Waiting for review acceptance