2025-10-13 Waku Weekly

Highlights §

• js-waku:

  • updated and released latest @waku/react
  • improve browser tests package and refactor codebase

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

  • achieved:
    • [research]: ongoing research on positioning our MVP among prior work on off-chain micropayments (write-up coming soon)
    • [research]: published notion doc for the notes from on-chain payment protocol options
    • [research]: investigated blockchain privacy protocols, new micropayment design
  • next:
    • [research]: finish a write-up, discuss
    • [research]: research & write-up for a comparison of possible approaches and tradeoffs for payment protocol
    • [research] refine new payment idea

Integrate nwaku in status desktop relay mode only §

• [Deliverable] Nwaku in Status Desktop
  • next: [nwaku] Fix msgChan still full after reading messages

Improve DevEx: API, TWN, Metrics, Docs §

• [Deliverable] Introduce Waku API in the Browser
  • next:
    • [js-waku] create Send API spec
    • [js-waku] implement Send API
    • [js-waku] implement Messaging Storage API and Ack Manager

Introduce Mixnet For Message Sending §

• [Deliverable] Integrate libp2p mix into lightpush
  • next: [research] updating rendezvous to work with custom peer records libp2p and waku PRs

Streamline DevEx: Mobile, Rust and Web dev §

• [Deliverable] Waku as a Signal Network (WebRTC) PoC

  • next:
    • [js-waku] implement WebRTC signaling over Waku
    • [js-waku] add WebRTC signaling spec

• [Deliverable] Local Web Dev Harness

  • next: [js-waku] local development environment with @waku/run package

Harden RLN Testnet Deployment §

• Minting of (Sepolia) ERC-20 Tokens for RLN Deposits Burns Sepolia Eth
  • achieved: [research] Dogfood TST mintWithEth functionality, updates to waku sim
  • next: [research] Basically done, just need to verify the latest update to have a minimum mint amount for mintWithEth

Maintenance §

• achieved:
  • [js-waku] update docker image, args and lightpush endpoint behavior to match nwaku/10ksim
  • [js-waku] refactor interface(s) between server, headless browser, and client
  • [js-waku] consolidate headless-tests and browser-tests packages
  • [js-waku] move waku/react to the js-waku repo
  • [js-waku] make waku/react compatible with React frameworks
  • [js-waku] expose sdk from waku/react
• next:
  • [nwaku] Complete release v0.37.0
  • [nwaku] Bump nwaku zerokit vendor to v0.9.0
  • [nwaku] Update waku-rust-bindings to use latest nwaku
  • [nwaku] Replace some isErr usage with better alternatives