2025-10-27 Waku Weekly

Highlights §

• js-waku:
  • created local development environment tools

Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node §

• [Deliverable] Service Incentivisation - Service incentivisation roadmap & spec
  • achieved:
    • [research] published notion doc on on-chain private streams idea, payment protocol discussions
    • [research] discussion around the forum post https://forum.vac.dev/t/off-chain-micropayments-prior-work-and-design-framework/579/1 ; reading the DAM paper and related materials
  • next:
    • [research] research on using Nescience as the privacy chain for private streams
    • [research] consider payment protocol in the context of existing privacy layers (private streams, etc)

Integrate nwaku in status desktop relay mode only §

• [Deliverable] Nwaku in Status Desktop
  • next:
    • [nwaku] Fix MsgChan still full after reading messages
    • [nwaku] Provide content topic health for filter/lightpush

Introduce E2E Reliability in Status Communities §

• [Deliverable] SDS protocol in Status - basic integration
  • next: [nwaku] Make sure CI is green by adapting sds nix components

Improve DevEx: API, TWN, Metrics, Docs §

• [Deliverable] Introduce Waku API in the Browser

  • next:
    • [js-waku] define Send API spec
    • [js-waku] implement Send API
    • [js-waku] define Health API

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

  • next:
    • [js-waku] implement WebRTC signaling API
    • [js-waku] define WebRTC signaling spec

• [Deliverable] Introduce Waku API in nwaku

  • next:
    • [nwaku] Implement simple send API.
      • Discussed specification
      • WIP: Implement opinionated and simple to use SEND operation

• [Deliverable] Local Web Dev Harness

  • achieved: [js-waku] create local development environment tools
  • next: [js-waku] document local development environment

Introduce Mixnet For Message Sending §

• [Deliverable] Integrate libp2p mix into lightpush
  • achieved: [research] enabled mix in waku.test fleet and dogfooded with chat2mix locally; milestone completed

Create Chat SDK MVP §

• [Deliverable] Chat SDK Developer Preview

  • achieved:
    • [chat] implement Noise KN, KX, NN, XX patterns
    • [chat] generalize the code to allow configure different patterns
  • next: [chat] more unit testing and publish the package via nimble

• [Deliverable] Create Segmentation Library

  • achieved: [chat] pr comments for specs addressed

Formalize and Expand Waku Web Apps §

• [Deliverable] Forum PoC

  • achieved:
    • [chat] easier providers API for @opchan/react
    • [chat] docs for @opchan/core and @opchan/react
    • [chat] AI prompt for one-shotting an app over Opchan

• [Deliverable] Reliable Qaku & library

  • achieved:
    • [chat] Qaku redesign: qaku.app
    • [chat] Qaku Desktop - qaku + codex bundled in a native desktop app

Upgrade Nim Usage §

• Create nim-ffi
  • next:
    • [nwaku] nim-binding-demo in protobuf
      • WIP: Support multiple contexts
      • WIP: First support of code generator to C++ binding

Integrate RLN With the Waku API §

• Improve RLN UX by reducing contract interactions
  • achieved: [research] continued investigating current contract, started design
  • next: [research] benchmark baseline for current rpc call rate, define target

Harden RLN Testnet Deployment §

• Zerokit is used in the Browser for Credentials Management
  • next: [js-waku] document rln.waku.org for consumers

Add peer discovery to mixnet and support browser §

• Implement basic discovery for mix
  • achieved: [research] implemented rendezvous changes and tested in 5 mix node simulation environment using chat2mix
  • next: [research] try to run larger simulations and come up with updated rendezvous spec

Maintenance §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] Perform isErr refactor to reduce code
  • [js-waku] fix pre-release pipeline
• next: [js-waku] prepare release