roadmap/content/waku/updates/2024-04-24.md

---
title: 2024-04-24 Waku Weekly
tags:
  - waku-updates
date: 2024-04-24
---

## Research Milestones

[Store Incentivisation](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/milestone/23)
- Status: In Progress
- Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/17
  - achieved: discuss incentivization with Akhil
  - next: plan out incentivization PoC (Lightpush instead of Store?) 
  - blockers: (no longer a blocker) the deadline for the academic paper final version

[RLN in resource-restricted clients](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/159)
- Status: In Progress
- Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/18/views/1
  - achieved: New Merkle tree integration (LazyIMT) integrated https://github.com/alrevuelta/go-waku-light/pull/2 and new version of contract using said tree https://github.com/vacp2p/rln-contract/pull/31 (with Ar. help). PoC ready to get Merkle proofs from the contract using the finally merged https://github.com/privacy-scaling-explorations/zk-kit/pull/162. With this tree, we can assume the increase in gas cost and in exchange we get roots and merkle proofs onchain.
  - next: Continue work in go-waku-light and prepare an end to end PoC to showcase this new feature. Write a report with findings and tradeoffs for future reference.
  - blocker: "VacRlnContract" is not compatible with "WakuRlnContract". This https://github.com/vacp2p/rln-contract/pull/31 should be adapted to work with waku nodes (required for the PoC). Awaiting Vac's support.

[RLNv2](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/163)
- Status: In Progress
- Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/21/views/1
  - achieved: merged PR to remove go-waku from waku-simulator
  - next: update to RLNv2
  - blockers: deployment still not working on wakusim host, but there is an issue for infra to debug and I can continue by using the wakudev host

[Store v3 - Waku Sync](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/milestone/21)
- Status: In Progress
- Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/20/views/1


[Store v3 - message hashes](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/milestone/20)
- Status: In Progress
- Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/16/views/1

## Status Integration
- Status: In Progress
- Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/5/views/2
  - in-progress: 
    - [nwaku] [Add logging of hashes to all nodes](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2474)

## Engineering Milestones

[JSON RPC Deprecation](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/125)
- Status: Completed
- Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/8/views/1

[Composing Waku Protocols to Improve Reliability](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/114)
- Status: In Progress
- Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/9/views/1
  - completed:
    - [js-waku] [chore: protocol implementations in @waku/core should be as unopinionated as possible](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/1886)
  - in-progress:
    - [js-waku] [feat: Store reliability](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/1685)

[Operator Feature Requests](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/152)
- Status: In Progress
- Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/13/views/1
  - completed:
    - [nwaku] [chore: detailed json report on /health endpoint](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2020)
    - [nwaku] [chore: Extend node isReady with more mature checks and result returned](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2019)

[Bindings (Rust, NodeJS, Golang)](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/121)
- Status: In Progress
- Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/6/views/6
  - in-progress:
    - [nwaku] [chore: migrate DiscV5 and DNS Discovery from app.nim to waku_node.nim](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2452)
  - next:
    - [nwaku] [chore: support setting DiscV5 and DNS-discovery in libwaku](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2455)

[Node Bandwidth Management Mechanism](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/66)
- Status: In Progress
- Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/11
  - in-progress:
    - [js-waku] [feat: prefer error code for req-res protocol over exception](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/1694)

## Other Work

### Bugs

#### In Progress

- [js-waku] [bug: lightPush is not able to keep node connections](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/1966)
- [js-waku] [bug: remote peer fault](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/1961)
- [js-waku] [bug: filter subscription stops without occasional pings](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/1923)
- [nwaku] [bug: wakunode2 systemd unit restarts about 10-15x per day](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2173)
- [nwaku] [bug: SIGSEGV with RLN](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1934)
- [nwaku] [bug: build error on new AMD cpu's (ubuntu 22.04 LTS)](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2560)
- [nwaku] [bug: Peer Reconnection not working?](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2592)
- [nwaku] [bug: nwaku <> js-waku interop tests failing](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2621)

#### Next

- [nwaku] [bug/regression: node ca be started on multiple clusters](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2552)
- [nwaku] [bug: autosharding resolves content topics to wrong shard](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2538)
- [nwaku] [bug: Store REST API returns invalid digest](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2615)

### Enhancements

#### In Progress

- [nwaku] [chore: review waku-simulator deployment and improve tracking processes](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2342)
- [nwaku] [feat: add WakuMessage's meta field to db schema](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2432)
- [nwaku] [chore: Address more attack vectors in rate limiting non-relay protocols](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2589)
- [js-waku] [feat: filter.createSubscription accept ShardParams](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/1967)

#### Next

- [js-waku] [chore: move to js-waku repo](https://github.com/waku-org/js-noise/issues/45)
- [js-waku] [feat: better developer experience](https://github.com/waku-org/js-rln/issues/76)

## Ecosystem Development

### BD
- Calls with prospects
- Advancing ongoing going leads
- Qualified prospects
- Created a validation tracking database
- Event planning done for the upcopming quarters

### Solution Engineering  
- Working on slides for talks in May/June
- Trying to get js-waku working in projects again - so far resulted in filed issues
- updated nwaku to 0.27.0 in awesome-akash
- calls with BD
- assisting Portrait with some architectural decisions
- assisting Dria with nwaku REST API

### Dev Rel 
- token2049 (20+ leads)
- libp2p rpgf nomination completed
- sorting out ethdenver leads, sorting out crm
- drafting Railgun blog article
- forwarding portrait.so interview to comms
- interview preparation for Railgun <> waku
- Ethdam feedback/summary

### Comms and Events
- X: 1441 new followers ( +11%), 47.8% engagement rate ( +58%), 15889 likes (+47%) - we hit 10k on Twitter - yay! 
- Linkedin: 11 new followers
- Discord: +44 (2.6%)
- 1 PR went live, about W3PN and Logos, mentioning Waku - https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/logos-partners-with-web3privacy-now-to-advance-digital-privacy 
- We’v interviewed Portrait founder at ETHDam - video sent for editing 

### Events
- Ivan gave a presentation and spoke at the panel at https://web3fc.xyz/
- Guru attended token2049
- ETHDam summary doc - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kgR8q-WMWJ56kGav6MiFYqkA2eDudc_lFUpdYM3sQ8s/edit and photos 

### Docs
- merged the general FAQ
- deprecated the JSON-RPC RFC spec
- Waku RFC website followup